{"id":646827,"date":"2013-03-14T14:33:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T18:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=220879"},"modified":"2013-03-14T14:33:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T18:33:23","slug":"google-splitting-up-mapping-and-commerce-former-svp-jeff-huber-joins-google-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/646827","title":{"rendered":"Google Splitting Up Mapping and Commerce, Former SVP Jeff Huber Joins Google X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is shaking things up even more today as the Wall Street Journal reports that the company is breaking up their mapping and commerce units.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Google&#8217;s mapping unit will become part of the search division, and the commerce will fall under the advertising division. <\/p>\n<p>The personnel blowback of this is that Google SVP Jeff Huber is out of a job &#8211; but not really. He&#8217;s actually moving on to another Google unit. <\/p>\n<p>Huber joined Google back in 2003 and up until now was the Senior Vice President of Geo and Commerce, overseeing maps, payments, and travel. He also led engineering &#038; development for AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick, and for Google Apps. <\/p>\n<p>Huber will be joining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/tag\/google-x\">Google X<\/a>, the Sergey Brin-led secret projects wings of Google that is responsible for the company&#8217;s crazier ideas &#8211; like Google Glass. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Finishing up my first decade at Google, and excited to begin the next one at Google X. What would you like to see X do next?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Huber (@jhuber) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jhuber\/status\/312230757202538496\">March 14, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Of course, this isn&#8217;t the only big shift at Google this week. Yesterday, we told you that longtime Android head <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/andy-rubin-no-longer-head-of-android-starting-new-chapter-at-google-2013-03\">Andy Rubin was stepping down<\/a> and being replaced by Sundar Pichai, SVP of  Chrome and apps. Google CEO Larry Page said that Rubin would be starting a &#8220;new chapter&#8221; at Google, but didn&#8217;t do into any more details? Is everyone running to Google X?<\/p>\n<p>In other, non-personnel-related drama, Google also announced that they were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/google-reader-shutdown-prompts-plethora-of-petitions-2013-03\">shutting down Google Reader on July 1st<\/a>. So much drama in the MVHQ. <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323393304578360260236298242.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=8XgXY5vMzAU:cSpoFKXg_Bc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=8XgXY5vMzAU:cSpoFKXg_Bc:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=8XgXY5vMzAU:cSpoFKXg_Bc:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=8XgXY5vMzAU:cSpoFKXg_Bc:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=8XgXY5vMzAU:cSpoFKXg_Bc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=8XgXY5vMzAU:cSpoFKXg_Bc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=8XgXY5vMzAU:cSpoFKXg_Bc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=8XgXY5vMzAU:cSpoFKXg_Bc:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=8XgXY5vMzAU:cSpoFKXg_Bc:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/8XgXY5vMzAU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is shaking things up even more today as the Wall Street Journal reports that the company is breaking up their mapping and commerce units. According to the report, Google&#8217;s mapping unit will become part of the search division, and the commerce will fall under the advertising division. The personnel blowback of this is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646827","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\/7357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}