It's like cricket Google is constantly loosing wickets recently of some of its top executives to rival companies. We reported in our SEO blog of Google inga employee to Facebook now Google has lost Douglas Merrill to EMI, EMI is a fast growing digital music provider.

According to EMI

"EMI is the world’s leading independent music company. It operates directly in 50 countries, with licensees in a further 20 and employs around 5,500 people. For the year ended 31 March 2007, EMI Group reported revenue of £1,751.5 million and £62.7 million in underlying profit before tax. In August 2007 EMI was acquired by private equity firm Terra Firma.
The company comprises two divisions – EMI Music, one of the top global recorded music companies, and EMI Music Publishing, one of the world’s leading music publishers. "

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