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Old Posted Jul 18, 2014, 8:34 AM
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Also, in the news for today:
Google gets ex-Ford CEO Alan Mulally on board
http://www.livemint.com/Companies/lD...-on-board.html


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New York/Detroit: Google Inc., operator of the world’s biggest search engine, named former Ford Motor Co. chief executive officer Alan Mulally to its board, gaining auto expertise in its quest to develop self-driving cars.

His appointment to the Google board is less than two months after the technology company unveiled the latest prototype of its self-driving car, a move which General Motors Co. said could become a serious competitive threat to the auto industry. Mulally stepped down from Ford on 1 July, six months earlier than expected to make way for successor Mark Fields. He was also considered for the top job at Microsoft Corp., a role that went to Satya Nadella after Steve Ballmer’s retirement.

“This is really an inspired move,” Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, associate dean of the Yale University School of Management, said in an interview. “Mulally has a great deal to bring to Google. He’s an engineer’s engineer who has a great feel for consumer product innovation. This is a way to let us know that there’s no limit to the scope and scale of where Google is going.”
Perhaps this signals that Google will be developing more than just software to run autonomous vehicles. It's too soon to tell.
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