Over the past year several former Google executives who helped run the company's advertising business, as well as Google product managers and engineers involved in Chrome and Android software projects, joined Facebook.

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In Nokia's case, the meeting involved gathering about 100 engineers and product managers from offices as far-flung as Massachusetts and China in a hotel ballroom in Mainz, Germany, two people who attended the meeting recall.

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However, as a result of this research we realized there were significant challenges to offering such a manager-of-managers product that was competitive in terms of fees and performance and still met the specific political agendas of each prospective client.

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