p2pnet news | Music:- This can’t be true, can it?

“Google CIO Douglas Merrill quits and becomes the president of EMI,” says Furrier.org in an April 1 post.

“I just confirmed from a source that Douglas Merrill sent out an email resigning from Google to join EMI as president,” says the story. “Word has it that he will be figuring out the next business models for EMI.”

Gotta be an April Fool’s joke, right?

But No! It is true.

Says an EMI press statement bearing today’s date >>>

EMI Music has appointed Google’s chief information officer and one of its most senior global executives, Douglas Merrill, to lead its growing digital music business.

As President, Digital Business, EMI Music, Merrill will head a new global function which brings together for the first time leadership responsibility for all of the company’s digital strategy, innovation, business development, supply chain and global technology activities.

Guy Hands, chief executive officer of Terra Firma and chairman of EMI Group, said: “Douglas is a proven agent of change who combines broad business intellect with a deep engineering background. He has been a key member of the management team at Google which has created more value than any other consumer internet company by focusing relentlessly on tools that enable consumers to do things more effectively. His experience, talents and his ability to drive innovation will be enormously valuable to EMI and to its artists.”

Merrill starts work at EMI on 28 April and will be based at EMI Music’s Los Angeles headquarters in the Capitol Tower. He will report to Guy Hands.

The last time p2pnet came across Merrill, he was trying to make out Google’s intentions on the question of user privacy are honourable.

Slashdot it!

Furrier.org – Google CIO Douglas Merrill Quits Becomes President of EMI, April 1, 2008
EMI – EMI Music appoints top Google executive Douglas Merrill to drive digital growth, April 2, 2008
p2pnet – Google and you, March 11, 2008

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