PayPal Gets Its Own Share Of The Yahoo Diaspora, Hires JavaScript Icon Douglas Crockford
The reorganizing and downsizing at Yahoo -- and possibly the executive scandal at the very top of the pyramid -- are leading to a wave of talent departures at the company: the latest in that story is that Douglas Crockford, a trailblazing Java guru most recently at Yahoo, is joining eBay's payment giant PayPal.
The news was announced by Bill Scott, PayPal's senior director of UI engineering, on his own blog, yesterday. Scott himself had also worked at Yahoo years ago.
source: techcrunch.com
13 May 2012
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