<![CDATA[Facebook Hires Google Exec As COO]]>

1.0 link 89913 <![CDATA[Facebook Hires Google Exec As COO]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/04/facebook-hires-google-exe_n_89913.html Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Inc.'s 23-year-old chief executive, is finding that he and his company have to grow up at Internet speed. The latest sign: He has poached a top Google Inc. executive, Sheryl Sandberg, to help expand his social-networking company.

Ms. Sandberg, a six-year Google veteran who has been the search giant's vice president of global online sales and operations, will become Facebook's chief operating officer. In that role, the 38-year-old executive will try to help expand the privately held company's...

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