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Google purchases company founded by P.A. Semi defectors

Google purchases company founded by P.A. Semi defectors

Posted by | Apr 21, 2010 | , |

The Apple-Google competition just gets more interesting. Google has purchased startup firm Agnilux, a San Jose company founded by a number of defectors from P.A. Semi, the chip company Apple bought in 2008, according to a “peHUB” report (http://www.pehub.com/69556/google-buys-stealth-hardware-startup-agnilux/).

On April 22, 2008, it was made public that Apple had agreed to buy a boutique microprocessor design company called PA Semi for US$278 million. The company was known for its design of sophisticated, low-power chips.

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Google Renames Itself Topeka

Posted by | Apr 1, 2010 | , |

It’s April Fools day, and if you didn’t catch it yet … Google has renamed itself “Topeka”. Why? If you didn’t catch it on the news a while back, Google is looking for communities to do experimental deployment of 1GB Fiber networks at a competitive price for consumers. Over 1100 cities applied, many with some creative video appeals on YouTube (see Westlake Village’s 2 minute video as an example at http://youtube.com/watch?v=rw1f4UJOd2E).

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Product manger leaves Google for Apple

Product manger leaves Google for Apple

Posted by | Mar 15, 2010 | , |

R.J. Pittman, a prominent product manager at Google, has left the company to join Apple, reports “TechCrunch” (http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/14/google-product-manager-rj-pittman-defects-to-apple/).

At Google, he has served as director of product management for Google Labs and Google Search. It’s not clear what he’ll be doing at Apple.

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