Apple Hires YouTube Alum for Video Expertise
- Vijay Karunamurthy co-founded foodie app Nom, which has closed
- He could help bring social and video features to Apple devices
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Apple Inc. has hired Vijay Karunamurthy, who worked on early versions of YouTube and later co-founded a foodie app, experience that could be used to bring social and video features to the iPhone and other devices.
Karunamurthy joined Apple as an engineering director in April, the same month his Nom app vanished from the App Store and his company’s website went offline. A now-removed biography on Nom’s Twitter account said the app would be “joining” Apple.