Google's Nest seeks head of audio for possible music move
by Stuart Dredge from on (#4Q1M)
'Father of the iPod' Tony Fadell may be planning to take on Sonos and other connected hi-fi firms with expansion into audio software and hardware
Nest's smart thermostat and smoke alarm products persuaded Google to buy it for $3.2bn in January 2014. Now the company seems to be planning a move into a new area: home audio.
A recruitment ad on Nest's website - first spotted by TechCrunch - is seeking a "highly technical Head of Audio to lead the development of Nest Audio across hardware and software, present and future".
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