Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) + Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) = ?

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) last week announced a myriad of changes and new services that they would be bringing to the technology world. It has already been talked to death and analyzed beyond reason, but one of the impacts that hasn’t seen much conversation is how this would affect the car makers. Naturally not many people think of cars when they think of internet changes, but the Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) has been at the forefront of the movement towards bringing advanced technology into vehicles.

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) + Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) = ?

So what is the latest bit of technology Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) has announced that could be of interest to innovative car makers such as Ford (NYSE:F)? Google pretty much introduced a cloud based musical and application system whereby digital things that you buy on the internet or own, can be smoothly transmitted to other devices. Currently the application would make sense for phones and TV’s – but cars in the future can easily take advantage of this.

Think of your music collection, movies, and software that you own on a computer or iPod – wouldn’t be nice to have access to all of that in your car well.

Ford (NYSE:F) stocks were up 4.2% on Friday and 2.6% in after hour trading. Naturally, it wasn’t Google’s announcement that drove the price up – but if Ford continues to bring innovation inside cars then it can carve out a nice piece of the market for itself where it could outdo the likes of Toyota. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares on the other hand lost some value last week with analysts wary of how Google’s Google TV plans would pan out.