{"id":646813,"date":"2013-03-14T11:34:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T15:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=375010"},"modified":"2013-03-14T11:34:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T15:34:24","slug":"larry-page-continues-to-shake-up-google-splits-up-mapping-and-commerce-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646813","title":{"rendered":"Larry Page continues to shake up Google, splits up mapping and commerce unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/14\/google-shake-up-mapping-commerce-375010\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"394\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/google-sign-dark.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=394&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Google Shake Up Mapping Commerce \" title=\"Google\" \/><\/a><\/center>Google (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=goog\">GOOG<\/a>) CEO Larry Page has decided to separate the company&#8217;s mapping and commerce units, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323393304578360260236298242.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines\">a report from <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>. Both units were headed by senior vice president Jeff Huber, who will now step down from his position. The news comes only a day after Page revealed that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/13\/andy-rubin-google-android-373487\/\">Android boss Andy Rubin would also be stepping down<\/a> from his position with the company, which opened the door for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/chrome-os\">Chrome OS<\/a> lead Sundar Pichai to head the lucrative mobile unit. Huber will now move to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google&#8217;s<\/a> secretive X Lab to work with co-founder Sergey Brin. The mapping unit will become part of Google&#8217;s search team, while the commerce unit will merge into the advertising group.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/TtennkvhqGo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google (GOOG) CEO Larry Page has decided to separate the company&#8217;s mapping and commerce units, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Both units were headed by senior vice president Jeff Huber, who will now step down from his position. The news comes only a day after Page revealed that Android boss Andy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}