{"id":42905,"date":"2012-02-07T09:06:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T07:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=42905"},"modified":"2012-02-07T12:17:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T10:17:44","slug":"google-hires-top-apple-exec-for-secret-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/42905-google-hires-top-apple-exec-for-secret-project.html","title":{"rendered":"Google hires top Apple exec for secret project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple\u2019s<\/a> former senior director of product integrity has been hired by <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> to work on an unknown project according to a report by <em>VentureBeat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Simon Prakash\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/402283-Simon-Prakash\">Simon Prakash<\/a> worked for Apple for more than 8 years where he was responsible for quality control across numerous product ranges.<\/p>\n<p>Prakash will now be working at Google\u2019s \u201cX lab\u201d on a project headed up by Google co-founder <a title=\"Sergey Brin\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/372538-Sergey-Brin\">Sergey Brin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation around the project suggests that it could be hardware related, and is in some way linked to the search giant\u2019s pending acquisition of <a title=\"Motorola Mobility\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211039-Motorola\">Motorola Mobility<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s hiring of Prakash comes at a time when both Google and Apple are being investigated by the Department of Justice after accusations that the companies were part of an illegal \u201cno staff poach\u201d agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/02\/06\/google-reportedly-hires-apple-exec-for-top-secret-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has hired a former Apple executive to assist with a secret project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":28750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,167,943,5666,8719],"class_list":["post-42905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-google","tag-motorola","tag-sergey-brin","tag-simon-prakash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42907,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42905\/revisions\/42907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}