Meet The Man Apple Hired To Save Its Most Overhyped Product Ever

Expect to hear a lot more about Bill Stasior, the executive Apple just hired away from Amazon to fix its Siri voice-recognition service, businessinsider reports…… Stasior ran one of Amazon's stealthiest businesses—its A9 search and advertising unit…… While A9's headquarters loom over downtown Palo Alto, Calif. and it's been hiring search and advertising engineering talent like mad, you probably haven't heard much about that. That's because A9 suffered an embarrassing defeat when it tried to take on Google head-on with an Amazon-powered search engine a decade ago. Despite giving discounts on Amazon.com to A9 search users, it failed to catch on, and its leader, Udi Manber, ended up defecting to the enemy…... Stasior took over from Manber and quietly reinvented A9 as a provider of technology behind search and advertising on Amazon. With that jujitsu approach, he created one of the few effective threats to Google……,…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-william-stasior-a9-amazon-google-2012-10