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…

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…

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…

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…

*Google* CEO Eric Schmidt is leaving the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) board after all, following months of brushing aside suggestions that increasing competition in the same areas created a conflict of interest. In a statement released before the market opened, Apple CEO Steve Jobs explained: “Unfortunately, as Google (NSDQ: GOOG) enters…

Google’s entry into the operating system market with Chrome OS should have obvious, broad impact not only on Google (NSDQ: GOOG) itself but also on its established relationships with other companies. At the Allen & Co. Media Conference Thursday, CEO Eric Schmidt (pictured left, with Bill Gates), along with Google…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt stopped by CNBC this afternoon to chat with Jim Cramer and explain how the company can keep growing despite its massive size. Among the opportunities he touted: mobile advertising. In fact, he feels that mobile could eventually eclipse the desktop: “We can make more…

Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt, who sits on Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) board, said today that because Google is working on its own mobile operating system that may compete with the iPhone, he occasionally must excuse himself from Apple board meetings, “I’ve only done this once or twice, so it’s…