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Last month, Google C.E.O. Eric Schmidt, who sits on Apple’s board of directors, revealed that he’s been compelled to leave Apple board meetings on more than one occasion because Google’s mobile-device platform, Android, poses a direct challenge to Apple’s iPhone. If Google were to adopt a similar practice of asking its directors with conflicts of interest to step outside, its board meetings might start getting pretty small.
The first to get the heave-ho would be John Doerr, who finds himself on the other side of the Android-iPhone fault line: In March, Doerr launched the $100 million iFund to invest in companies writing applications for the iPhone. If Google’s board went on to discuss App Engine, Google’s cloud computing initiative, Doerr would again have to excuse himself since he sits on the […]
Original post by Josh McHugh, Portfolio.com
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