Facebook snap-up IT expert

13:35 30th July 2008

Facebook has added further IT management talent to its board by hiring Mozilla's vice president, Mike Schroepfer.

Mr Schroepfer has joined the popular social networking group as director of engineering, responsible for front-end and platform development.

The former Mozilla employee has previously overseen the development of various versions of Firefox and was chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems's data centre automation division.

The social utility site has been hiring high-profile staff from web rivals in the past year, with Google's Sheryl Sandberg, Elliot Schrage, Benjamin Ling and Justin Rosenstein and YouTube's Gideon Yu, all joining the company.

This acquisition strategy is seen by industry experts as a method of disproving criticisms levelled at the site, particularly that it does not have the management knowledge to cash in on its phenomenal popularity.

In other news, the creators of the online scrabble clone Scrabulous have pulled the application from US Facebook pages due to a lawsuit filled by the original game producer Hasbro.

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