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Industry Moves: Outgoing Facebooker Ben Ling To YouTube; Tasked With Making Money For The Site

Aug 14, 2008 9:16 PM

Ben Ling, a key driver of Facebook’s platform strategy who recently announced he was leaving the company, is going to YouTube. The news was first reported by Kara Swisher, who says his job will be to help turn the famously under-profitable video site into a money maker. This is actually…

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