Apple (AAPL) continues to bring in more engineering talent amid a fall for its stock. The company has reportedly hired Yoky Matsuoka, most recently head of technology at Google’s Nest, to work on health science projects.
Matsuoka, a robotics expert, co-founded Google's experimental Google X lab in 2009 before joining Nest. While Nest has been struggling, Matsuoka left the smart house company last year before negative media reports surfaced.
A Fortune report says Matsuoka will work on Apple’s HealthKit, ResearchKit and Carekit software projects.
Apple last month hired Chris Porritt, who had been Tesla’s (TSLA) vice president of vehicle engineering. He will work on Titan, Apple’s car project, reports say.
Google restructured last year, creating Alphabet (GOOGL) as the umbrella company over its main company, Google, and over its far-flung investments, known internally as “Other Bets.”
Google bought Nest Labs for $3.2 billion in early 2014. Nest, a maker of web-connected devices, then acquired Dropcam for $555 million in cash.
Nest CEO Tony Fadell has come under pressure as top executives leave. As a senior vice president at Apple before co-founding Nest in 2008, Fadell helped developed the iPod.
Former Dropcam CEO Greg Duffy and other employees recently left Nest. Nest also has parted ways with its director of hardware design and engineering, Shige Honjo, said Re/code.
