Poor Google. Its stock has been sliding since the beginning of the year. Now key executives and engineers are trickling out and heading to the Internet’s latest darling, Facebook.The latest Google defector is Ethan Beard, who plans to leave his post as the Mountain View, Calif., company’s director of social media in mid-April. He will become director of business development at Facebook.Google veteran Sheryl Sandberg left earlier this month to become chief operating officer at the popular social-networking company. Within the last year, other Googlers have departed for Facebook. Among them: Gideon Yu, former chief financial officer at YouTube, Google’s video-sharing site, who is now chief financial officer at Facebook; and top engineers Benjamin Ling and Justin Rosenstein.
www.forbes.com/technology/2008/03/26/google-facebook-hiring-tech-ent-cx_wt_0326leave.html