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Robert Andrews
Dec 8, 2011 7:16 AM
As our recent coverage of China’s proliferating app store segment has shown, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is not in full control of its own operating system in the Far East.
And that fact was laid before Android’s biggest exponent, Eric Schmidt, on Wednesday…
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Robert Andrews
Dec 7, 2011 8:57 AM
What with self-driving cars and such, Eric Schmidt is not averse to some blue-sky thinking. But one new prediction may be a moonshot too far.
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Ingrid Lunden
Nov 8, 2011 9:59 AM
Ever wondered whether Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has plans to tack more revenue-generating services on to Android? If it does, one of them doesn’t look like it will be a licensing fee. Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google, yesterday reiterated to an audience that Google has no plans to charge for…
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 28, 2011 7:05 AM
At Google’s Zeitgeist Americas conference, Larry Page spent a good amount of time on stage—maybe one of the longest appearances he has made since taking over as the CEO of the company earlier this year. But when it came to the Q&A, he invited former CEO (and still-chairman) Eric Schmidt,…
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Tom Krazit
Jul 19, 2011 12:27 PM
Google’s Eric Schmidt perfected an air of bemused condescension during his 10 years as CEO, rarely allowing the slings and arrows of lesser competitors or pesky questioners to knock him off stride. Even though he’s no longer CEO Schmidt hasn’t changed all that much, although his comments Tuesday about Google’s…
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Sam Gustin
Jul 13, 2011 5:10 PM
Wall Street analysts expect Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to deliver solid earnings results Thursday afternoon, but investors who have seen the company’s stock fall 10 percent this year will want more, particularly status reports on the company’s mobile, social, and local efforts. They’ll be keen to hear from co-founder Larry Page,…
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Staci D. Kramer
May 31, 2011 10:04 PM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) shelved technology that would mesh mobile location with facial recognition because of fears it would be misused, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt told attendees at the opening session at All Things Digital. An ‘evil dictator’ could use that against you, Schmidt said.
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Tom Krazit
Apr 19, 2011 5:25 PM
Gone are the days of the $1 annual salary for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Google plans to award him a proper salary now that he has turned over the reigns of the company to co-founder Larry Page, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 15, 2011 10:28 AM
Google’s CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt today shed a little official light on its place as the loser when Nokia (NYSE: NOK) decided to choose Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) as its new smartphone operating system when it ditches Symbian: “We would have loved Nokia to choose Android and we certainly tried,”…
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 4, 2011 5:30 AM
This week, news about non-native app stores was a bit like a proverbial bus: you wait for ages, and then two announcements come along at once. A new solution from Openwave (NSDQ: OPWV) and GetJar; and a rebranded white-label store, Appia, formerly known as PocketGear, the multi-platform app store backed…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jan 20, 2011 4:01 PM
Long-time Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt is stepping down. Effective April 4, co-founder Larry Page will take over as Google’s CEO, while Schmidt will take on the role of executive chairman, the company just announced. Google says it’s making the changes to “streamline decision making and create clearer lines…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 7, 2010 12:11 PM
In a big-picture keynote at Berlin’s IFA home electronics event, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt said Google’s new guiding principle is in serving users automatic search results, all the time, super-quick…
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Jul 2, 2010 4:36 AM
By Charles Arthur: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) chief executive Eric Schmidt says that the experience of reading news will move to digital devices quite rapidly – and that it will involve personalised and local news which will be alert to your interests and existing knowledge. Speaking at the Activate 2010 summit…
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Dianne See Morrison
Jun 21, 2010 10:14 AM
Social Gaming Network has raised $2 million in its first tranche in what it expects to be a much larger second round of funding from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt’s investment firm Tomorrow Ventures and Xing founder Lars Hinrichs, reports TechCrunch.com. The Palo Alto-based firm currently builds high quality…
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Tricia Duryee
May 18, 2010 9:32 PM
It’s been more than six months since Google (NSDQ: GOOG) agreed to pay $750 million for AdMob and the company is still waiting for government approval. Many sources have said the FTC is considering blocking the deal between Google, the dominant online advertising company, and AdMob the largest mobile ad…
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Rafat Ali
Mar 15, 2010 10:04 AM
At the Abu Dhabi Media Summit last week, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt was the biggest speaker of them all. And he surely made the desired impression, deftly handling some critical questions from the audience. His focus for the talk was on innovation, specifically on Google’s, and its efforts…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Feb 16, 2010 12:20 PM
Has Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) upstaged Google (NSDQ: GOOG) at this year’s Mobile World Congress? Almost without exception, reviewers have praised Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 series—but on Tuesday Google got its own chance in the spotlight as CEO Eric Schmidt took the keynote stage. Schmidt’s speech was thinky; holding a…
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Staci D. Kramer
Feb 6, 2010 8:16 PM
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt tipped Twitter followers to watch the third quarter of the Super Bowl carefully Sunday for a sign that hell’s frozen over. It seems the search company is making a move that Schmidt insisted it didn’t need and wouldn’t do: brand advertising. John Battelle’s source…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jan 21, 2010 4:29 PM
Only positive comments from CEO Eric Schmidt who led off his company’s earnings call by saying that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) had “performed well across the board” and by praising the company’s decision last quarter to once again ramp up its spending. “We’re back in business full blast,” he said, referring…
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Tameka Kee
Oct 14, 2009 12:10 PM
Giiv, a mobile gifting startup that hasn’t yet officially launched, has raised $2.3 million worth of a $2.8 million first round of funding, per an SEC filing. The filing shows that Richard Yen, a director at L.A.-based Saban Ventures (a division of Saban Capital Group) is now listed as a…
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