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It's been hard to keep up with all the Facebook drama lately. First there was that messy TOS hullaballoo, then the powers that be decided to change the site's layout, and more outrage ensued. The big announcement for this week is finance chief Gideon Yu's departure, but it's unclear whether he left of his own volition, or was let go. The Wall Street Journal speculates that Faceboook let him go, while the New York Times specifies that the site's announcement only mentioned that Yu left, not that he was fired. Yu has declined to comment thus far.
Yu raised the social networking site's last round of financing in 2007, including an investment from Microsoft valuing the company at $15 billion. But since that time, he has had a difficult time raising money to cover the escalating technology costs in such a tough economy.
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