Incidentally, heard a rumor (absolute speculation and it was probably made up by the person who told me) that Google was interested in financing an internal hedge fun and someone sent me this link.
Most large multinationals will have traders in their treasury teams. If you've got large reserves of currency in lots of currencies you need to manage currency and deflationary risk.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/mountain-view...