The one and only Jean-Baptiste Queru (JBQ) has been much beloved by the Android community for his work on the Android Open Source Project at Google, where he was the technical lead. Following a dispute over missing open source drivers a few weeks ago, JBQ departed from Mountain View. Now he's announced his new position... at Yahoo.

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JBQ will be an Architect and Senior Principal Engineer working on Yahoo's suite of mobile apps. According to his tweets, JBQ only started the job yesterday. The move could be a good thing for Android users. Yahoo has traditionally had a lot of trouble making apps that don't stink. Perhaps JBQ can give the team some direction.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (a former Googler herself) has been on quite a tear lately, acquiring companies and making big hires. Picking up a high profile developer like JBQ will be yet another feather in Yahoo's increasingly lavish cap.

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