Facebook recruits the elite!

Facebook isn’t playing in the sandbox when it comes to talented staff, which is leaving Google bullying their own shadows.

Facebook has recruited Benjamin Ling; who, for those who don't know,  is one of the higher ranked engineers at Google, or should I say, was one of the higher ranked engineers? This is the second elite employee that Facebook has managed to snag from Google’s family over the past recent weeks.

Gideon Yu, who was the CFO at YouTube, joined Facebook in August.

Ling, who graduated from Stanford, umbrella’d Google’s e-commerce inspirations, including Google Checkout and Google SMS.

Of course, as we all know, Google doesn’t like to be outdone, it is said that Google may maybe biting back with an open platform of its own.