{"id":2633,"date":"2016-04-14T04:23:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T20:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/facebook-poaches-googles-atap-lead-to-head-its-new-hardware-division\/"},"modified":"2016-04-14T04:23:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T20:23:53","slug":"facebook-poaches-googles-atap-lead-to-head-its-new-hardware-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/14\/facebook-poaches-googles-atap-lead-to-head-its-new-hardware-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook poaches Google's ATAP lead to head its new hardware division"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Regina Dugan \u2013 who ran Google\u2019s <\/span>Advanced Technology and Projects<\/a> division \u2013 has joined Facebook.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dugan will be heading up Building 8, a new Facebook group that CEO Mark Zuckerberg says<\/a> will be \u201cfocused on building new hardware products to advance our mission of connecting the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At Google, Dugan led ATAP \u2013 which started out as a division of Motorola. When Motorola was sold to Lenovo in 2014, ATAP moved back to Google proper. Even after the Alphabet shakeup last year, ATAP remained part of Google.<\/p>\n

Dugan\u2019s mission at ATAP was to \u201cdo some epic shit\u201d (her words) and she oversaw stuff like Project Tango as well as smart fabrics<\/a> and modular phones<\/a>. Last year, ATAP launched Project Fi, Google\u2019s first efforts at becoming a wireless carrier. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Regina Dugan \u2013 who ran Google\u2019s Advanced Technology and Projects division \u2013 has joined Facebook. Dugan will be heading up Building 8, a new Facebook group that CEO Mark Zuckerberg says will be \u201cfocused on building new hardware products to … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[851,850,1832,725],"class_list":["post-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-regina-dugan","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}