Google's CEO Joins Apple's Board of Directors

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When Eric E. Schmidt, Google's chief executive, was named to Apple Computer's board this week, it did more than signal a potential alliance between powerful companies. It touched off a wave of speculation about the motives of the man behind the move: Apple's co-founder, Steven P. Jobs.

"The old social networks in Silicon Valley run very deep," noted AnnaLee Saxenian, a leading scholar of the industry and dean of the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. "And this reminds us that Silicon Valley has a common enemy to the north."

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