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According to foreign media reports, last year was close to former Ford CEO Alan Mulally became boss of Microsoft's position (Alan Mulally) has joined the Board of Directors of another tech giant Google.

On July 9, the post of July 1 after Ford's CEO Alan Mulally became the 11th member of Google's Board of Directors, he was also the first new Member of the Board of Directors since 2005. He will serve on the Google Board of Directors Audit Committee.

Mulally, a former Boeing Executive, he will be able to Google it requires expertise in automotive and aerospace industries . The search giant is extending its reach into driverless cars, automotive infotainment systems, and using unmanned aircraft and satellites to provide Internet connectivity.

According to people familiar with the situation said Google pursues Mulally followed several months, Mulally said at the end of 2012 to acquaintances, Microsoft and Google is all he is interested in the Ford CEO leadership after the departure of the two companies .

According to another person familiar with the situation said Google CEO Larry page (Larry Page) is after reading the book the American Icon, about his interests. Mulalichenggong is described in the book lead the Ford out the deeds.

Allegedly, Pec and Mulally later had been discussed several times on corporate leadership.

Intelligent transportation systems consultants, former Executive of Nokia and Motorola baobo·denaluo (Bob Denaro) pointed out that "as the Google car project moves forward, the company's existing culture needs to move fast and break into a new element, also needs more progressive policies to tackle security issues and other challenges facing the auto industry. Alan Mulally would help in this regard. ”

Since the self-driving car project was started about 5 years ago, tensions between Google and the automotive industry. It wants to build automatic car. While most car companies are committed to new models joining the automated driver assistance functions.

Google's Android mobile operating system Android Auto into a new version of an existing car, make it as a set of navigation, communication and entertainment functions of the automotive Center. There are currently more than 20 auto manufacturers and brands plan to integrate Android Auto in new models, Ford is one of them.

Google's aviation project has only just begun. In April, the company won a solar-powered UAV manufacturer Titan Aerospace, acquired for an undisclosed sum. In June, it spent $ 500 million to buy startups Skybox Imaging satellite images. Google hopes the two companies to collect images of the Earth's surface and provides network services on a larger scale. It is reported that Google plans to invest more than $ 1 billion to build a satellite network, the network is not connected to a global scale.