General Motors hires former Apple VP Mike Abbott to lead a newly created software unit, starting May 22; Abbott was VP of Engineering for Apple's Cloud Services
- General Motors has hired former Apple executive Mike Abbott to lead a newly created software unit for the Detroit automaker.
How Detroit shunned overtures from Chauffeur, a secret project inside Google that eventually became Waymo, before embracing self-driving cars
America's car industry dismissed the potential of autonomous driving for years as tech companies plunged ahead. Now Detroit is racing to catch up. Tweets: @wsj Tweets: The Wall Street / @wsj : A form...
Google X hires Detroit veteran John Krafcik as “CEO” of its self-driving car project, suggests the division could become an independent company under Alphabet
Google Brings in Chief for Self-Driving Cars — Hiring of Detroit veteran John Krafcik indicates keenness to commercialize the technology
How Silicon Valley became a unique, self-perpetuating culture that will continue to dominate the high-tech economy
Why Silicon Valley Will Continue to Rule — William Shockley's employees toast him for his Nobel Prize, 1956. Photo courtesy Computer History Museum. Tweets: @pmarca and @alexismadrigal Tweets: Marc...