Project Ara, Motorola’s Advanced Technology and Products department will remain with Google

January 29, 2014

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As soon as Google sold Motorola to Lenovo this evening, people immediately questioned what would be Project Ara's fate. It will remain with Google as well as Motorola's Advanced Technology and Products department. This means that former DARPA director Regina Dugan and her team, including Dr. Ivan Poupyrev, will be moving their offices to Google's Mountain View campus. There, they will report to Android and Chrome head honcho Sundar Pichai.

While Google will also keep the patents held by the Advanced Technology and Products department, Lenovo will maintain a license to them. In case you forgot, Dugan & Co. are working on some crazy things.

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Born and raised in New Jersey, Justin is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University where he studied marketing with a focus on digital marketing. He's very talkative and enjoys discussing anything from technology and sports to video games and television. As for Justin's current device rotation, he carries around the Google Pixel and Nexus 9. In the rare case that his phone or tablet is not in his hand, he is either flicking through cards on his Moto 360 (2015) or typing away on the Microsoft Surface Book. Justin is patiently waiting for the day that Google replicates the Galaxy Nexus with modern day specifications.