Badoo Hires Google Exec Ben Ling As New COO To Push Its Platforms And US Growth

Dating/meeting-people site?Badoo?has been putting together a?147 million registered user base over the last six years, with a?huge run on Facebook helping it to reach around the world last year. And today, it follows up on the momentum with a key hire. It has appointed long-time Google executive Benjamin Ling as chief operating office to help push it out across mobile and Web platforms. He'll oversee product, engineering, business operations, partnerships and corporate development. Badoo has been best known for expanding into emerging markets like Russia and Brazil but it's now growing in the US where it already has eight million users.

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