Is Google going Hollywood?
The New York Post suggests that Google’s appointment of former Disney/Pixar exec Ann Mather to its board of directors indicates the the company may be preparing for a Yahoo-like move on Hollywood.
Mather’s appointment is a “potential harbinger” of things to come, as the major entertainment and Internet companies warily begin to embrace each other, said UBS Internet analyst Benjamin Schachter.
“Mather’s appointment gives Google’s board a media perspective that it currently lacks,” said Schachter. “This is the first person on the board without a purely technological or academic background.”
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