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Exclusive: Facebook Poaches Yet Another Major Googler–This Time, Ad Exec David Fischer [UPDATED]

Kara Swisher in News on March 26, 2010 at 8:19 am PT

David Fischer–who was VP of Global Online Sales & Operations for Google and more recently was heading up its local efforts–is taking a job at Facebook as VP of Advertising and Global Operations, according to sources. The move by Fischer–which was also just announced internally at both Google and Facebook and has just been confirmed by Facebook–is yet another in a series of top execs at the search giant to defect to the fast-growing social networking site. And it will surely raise tensions between the companies, which are increasingly becoming rivals in several major Internet arenas and opposing poles of power in Silicon Valley.

Mr. Twitter Goes to Washington, Again

Peter Kafka in Media on May 12, 2009 at 11:47 am PT

The White House is already Twittering (of course). But now it’s getting tips from a pro–Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, who’s evangelizing official Washington at this very moment.

The Entire D6 Interview With Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg (1 of 4)

Kara Swisher in News on August 18, 2008 at 12:14 am PT

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Here’s Part 1 of 4 of an interview I did with Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg. The social-networking site has had quite a year, as the hottest and most hyped of the Web 2.0 landscape. With fast growth and still-questionable monetization power, where Facebook is going will be a journey plenty will be paying attention to. In this video, I get a Princess Phone from Zuckerberg and Sandberg and apologize to Zuckerberg about calling him “toddler CEO.” Then Zuckerberg talks about sharing information, learning to develop by hacking on AOL, his time at Harvard University, and Sandberg talks about her time at Harvard, in the Clinton administration and at Google.