Saat ini beredar informasi bahwa facebook sedang gencar-gencarnya merekrut karyawan dari perusahaan teknologi yang berasal dari divisi mobile untuk membuat team didalam building 8.
Tiga dari veteran teknologi yang direkrut facebook tersebut merupakan pimpinan project Ara milik google. proyek yang berencana membuat smartphone modular berkonsep lego tersebut tiba tiba mandek.
Apa itu building 8:
Itu terdengar seperti bangunan kedelapan sebuah skunkworks dimana facebook bisa membuat purwarupa teknologi baru
Beberapa saat lalu, CEO Facebook Mark Zuckerberg sempat mengungkap secuil informasi soal Building 8.
"Proyek ini akan menggabungkan area-area penting seperti augmented reality, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, dan konektivitas," ia menuturkan.
Berikut nama-nama didalam team building 8 :
Nathan Kelly
Building 8's new head of global supply chain, previously helped build supply chains for Sonos, Tesla, HP/Palm, Microsoft and Sony Ericsson, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Rich Heley
The new head of manufacturing, spent a decade at Apple figuring out how to mass produce aluminum enclosures for the iPhone, iPad, iPod and Mac -- all the way back to the first MacBook Pro -- then spent three years at Tesla, finishing as VP of product technology.
Furhan Zafar
Previously directed the supply chain for Motorola's Moto Maker -- an effort that let buyers pick different phone backs and different accent colors for their phone's buttons and grills before they shipped to customers.
Tim McCune
Building 8's new head of systems engineering, spent 17 years at Motorola and a brief stint at Apple as well.
Richard Wooldridge
The new COO of Building 8, wasn't just the logistics behind Google's modular Ara handset -- he also spent four years leading the global supply chain at Motorola, including Moto's effort to build a factory in the US for the first Moto X phone.
Rafa Camargo
Building 8's new head of product engineering, led development on Google's Ara phone, after a year and a half at Amazon's Lab126 hardware group working on the Amazon Fire Phone and 13 years at Motorola on such iconic projects as the Droid, Razr, even the StarTAC flip phone.
Viresh Rustagi
The new head of device software at Building 8, was the head of software for Google's Ara as well -- after a two-year-plus stint managing a software dev team for Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets and set-top boxes, and 12 years working on software for mobile processors at Broadcom.
Blaise Bertrand
Facebook's new head of creative, spent three years designing for Motorola and 12 at noted design firm IDEO, in addition to seven months at Google ATAP working on the Ara phone.
Sumber : cnet
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