{"id":2275,"date":"2012-01-13T05:04:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T05:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2012-01-13T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T05:30:23","slug":"google-appoints-vmware-co-founder-to-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/2275\/google-appoints-vmware-co-founder-to-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Google appoints VMware co-founder to board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc appointed Diane Greene, a co-founder of technology company VMware Inc, to its board of directors on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Greene, 56, will also serve on Google board&#8217;s audit committee, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Greene will become the 10th member of Google&#8217;s board, filling a spot left vacant when former Genentech CEO Arthur Levinson resigned in 2009. Levinson, who is also a director at Apple Inc, resigned after federal regulators began looking into the &#8220;interlocking directorates&#8221; between the two companies.<\/p>\n<p>Greene, who co-founded VMware in 1998, served as the company&#8217;s CEO from 1998 to 2008. She also is a member of Intuit&#8217;s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Google, the world&#8217;s No.1 Internet search engine, were off 52 cents at $629.12 in after hours trading on Thursday after closing the regular session up $3.68.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc appointed Diane Greene, a co-founder of technology company VMware Inc, to its board of directors on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,537,535,53],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-appointment","tag-board","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}