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Mobile Minutes: Text message startups; Facebook raids Google; Gilt founder?s new gig; GoPro courts developers

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Facebook has hired Regina Dugan from Google, poaching the former director of the US research agency DARPA to lead a new research and development lab focused on large technological leaps.

Alexis Maybank, co-founder of pioneering ecommerce site Gilt, saw the power of social media early on as millions of visitors arrived from Instagram and Pinterest to browse luxury products they saw there.
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GoPro wants to go beyond its core audience of adventure seekers, and it?s teaming up with big brands and developers to reach new customers: The action cam maker officially launched its developer program at a press event in San Francisco Thursday, allowing third-party developers to build their own apps and accessories to work with GoPro?s line of cameras.