Google vice president John Hanke, formerly head of the company’s Geo division (Google Maps, Google Earth, Street View, Places, etc) is now in charge of a smaller skunkworks team within Google called Niantic Labs, the first product of which was Google’s “Field Trip” local recommendations app for Android, released on September 27.
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