Facebook Hires Founders of Professional Social Network, Pursuit

Facebook has hired two of the three founders of Pursuit, a professional network startup geared towards helping employers spread the words about their job openings by using their employees’ social networks. A notice on Pursuit’s web site says, “We’ve found a new home at Facebook,” followed by a vague promise about what they might do on Facebook.

We wrote about Pursuit late last year: the web-based Pursuit application offered employees monetary referral bonuses, social recognition, and interesting influencing who is hired to work with them. Pursuit

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