Deputy PM, Google chief ponder investment opportunities

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Rafie al-Issawi discussed with the chief of Google company on Sunday investment opportunities available in Iraq’s communications sector, according to a release by Issawi’s office. “Issawi and Eric Schmidt took up ways to launch investments in the communications field with the objective of providing better services for Iraqi citizens,” read the release as received by IraqiNews.com news agency. Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an engineer, Chairman/CEO of Google Inc. and a former member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. He also sits on the board of trustees for Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton University. Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. AmR (P)/SR 1