Facebook acquires Google’s Senior Director of Engineering

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Badros has been integral in a number of Google spearhead projects, most notably Google Adsense, which now is worth Google billions of dollars in revenue. He has also played key roles in the development and engineering teams for Google Calendar, Google Reader and Gmail, all of which have been relatively successful for Google.

Greg Badros has joined Facebook as a director of engineering, reporting to Mike Schroepfer. Greg is one of the most accomplished engineering talents at Google, and it’s wonderful that he has decided to bring these talents to Facebook and take on numerous responsibilities across the engineering organization.

Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s VP of Engineering, was also acquired from Mozilla last July.

Badros is best known, though, for his Adsense work, and the recent happenings seem to point to the idea that Facebook intends to step up the monetization of their site network.

/via TechCrunch