Google said Monday that Arthur Levinson has resigned from the Internet search leader’s board, averting a potential showdown with government regulators over his overlapping job as a director for computer and gadget maker Apple. The Federal Trade Commission had been investigating whether Levinson’s double duty on the boards of both Google and Apple would lessen competition between the companies as they increasingly collide in the same markets. The same issue had dogged Google Chairman Eric Schmidt until he stepped down from Apple’s board two months ago.

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