Facebook Hires Google Exec to Lead New Research Lab

MarketWatch: Facebook has created a research lab to focus on developing hardware products and hired a top Google exec to lead the effort, underlining the social-networking company’s broadening technology ambitions. The new group, called Building 8, will be led by Regina Dugan, a former Pentagon research chief who joined Alphabet’s Google in 2012. It will create hardware products that “advance our mission of connecting the world.”