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‘What Would Google Do?’ UK Conservatives Add CEO Schmidt To Economic Recovery Cttee

Robert Andrews Feb 10, 2009 - 10:13 AM CST

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt may have turned down President Obama’s offer to become America’s chief technology officer but, in the UK, the opposition Conservative party leader David Cameron has managed to recruit Schmidt (pictured here on a blue background) to a new “economic recovery committee”. The committee will meet fortnightly to “co-ordinate strategy for the long term reconstruction of Britain

3 Responses to “‘What Would Google Do?’ UK Conservatives Add CEO Schmidt To Economic Recovery Cttee”

Bill Ross February 10, 2009

This could mean a new venture for Google and the economy.

February 10, 2009 at 8:10 pm
online dictionary February 10, 2009

I really hope he can help out. I am sure he can bring some progressive thinking to the group if nothing more.

February 10, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Red V Blue February 10, 2009

In every other Western country, the left-leaning party wears red and the right-wearing party wears blue. Only in the U.S. is it different, almost entirely because the media has chosen to paint the left-leaning party with a preferable color.

February 10, 2009 at 5:50 pm