Facebook Nabs New Payments Director from Google

The Facebook Platform payments and monetization ecosystem continues to grow rapidly this year, and recently, Facebook has been getting more involved. A few weeks ago, Facebook started testing integration of its own virtual currency with Platform applications, and last week Facebook enabled payment support in 14 new currencies.

Now, we’ve learned that Facebook recently hired Prashant Fuloria, formerly a Director of Product Management at Google where he worked on Google Checkout amongst various other projects during his six year stint, as the new Director of Product Management responsible for Facebook payments. Highly regarded by colleagues, Fuloria left Google and started at Facebook last month.

With Fuloria’s hiring, the march of former Googlers two exits up the 101 to Facebook continues. At one point, nearly 10% of Facebook employees came from Google. Just a couple of weeks ago, Greg Badros, who headed up the AdSense engineering team for several years at Google, joined Facebook as a Director of Engineering....more of the story