• Tech Crunch, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:08 PM

Matthew Rothenberg, head of product -- yes, singular -- at Flick is leaving parent company Yahoo, he revealed in a personal tweet. In the interim, Markus Spiering will be stepping in as head of product management. In an official statement, Yahoo insists that Flickr "remains a key priority," and that it "continues to have an innovative, energetic and creative leadership team."

Yet according to TechCrunch, "The situation is not great inside the once proud service." Indeed, "Lately, we've been hearing a lot of talk of internal turmoil within Yahoo and the Flickr group." Last fall, brought on ex-Microsoft exec John Matheny to head up Yahoo's Applications Division, which is in charge of Flickr. As a result, "We've heard around a half dozen or so folks have left just in the past few months."

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