Tag archive: Eric Schmidt

It seems like Google may no longer be content to simply watch from the sidelines as the likes of Apple and Amazon go from strength to strength in the tablet market, with executive chairman Eric Schmidt telling Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera this week that “in the next six months we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality.” He added that introducing such a device would be guaranteed to increase the “brutal competition between Apple… Read More

Google chairman (and former CEO) Eric Schmidt is no stranger to controversial remarks. Some of our favorites include suggesting people move if they don't want to be seen in Google's Street View, and that Google will eventually get to the point where it has a good idea what its users are thinking. This week, speaking at LeWeb 2011, Schmidt has raised eyebrows again with two assertions: that Android is already ahead of Apple's… Read More

Google's Executive Chairman and former CEO, Eric Schmidt sat down with Loic Le Meur at Le Web in Paris yesterday to discuss all things Google. In the interview, Schmidt discusses the challenges governments are facing in relation to technology, Google TV's upcoming rise to prominence, the Motorola acquisition, why developers still favor iOS, the problem of noise in Google+, how Google is focusing its efforts on fewer products, and… Read More

It’s hardly a surprise that Steve Jobs was not a fan of Google’s Android operating system, but the degree to which it troubled him may come as news to some. In Walter Isaacson’s hotly anticipated biography of the late Apple co-founder, the author writes of how, back in early 2010, Jobs expressed his anger in “an expletive-laced rant” when he learned that HTC had brought out an Android operated smartphone that he felt copied many features of the… Read More

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday, Google chairman Eric Schmidt tried to put the best possible face on Google's business model, characterizing the Internet as the ultimate level playing field, and noting that if consumers and businesses don't like Google, alternatives are just one click away. However, Schmidt's (and Google's) statements side-step facts that have put Google in the crosshairs of antitrust… Read More

Google and Facebook have both been spending significantly more money in Washington during Q2 of 2011 than the two companies spent last year. The increase in Google's spending comes at a time when the search giant's business practices are being scrutinized by the Federal Trade Commission. According to recently filed disclosure documents, Google has spent more than $2 million on lobbying from April to June, which is a 54% increase from… Read More

By the estimation of Ancestry.com co-founder Paul Allen, the Google+ network is looking at a total of 18 million users of the invitation-only social network by the end of Tuesday. Yesterday, the service added 763,000 new users which constituted the slowest day of growth since Google opened up the floodgates on July 6. The growth rate has dropped 50 percent from the peak of public interest, but Allen notes that Google hasn't attempted to… Read More

Google chairman Eric Schmidt has agreed to testify to lawmakers before the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee in September. The announcement comes in the wake of Google confirming it is the subject of a federal antitrust inquiry, even as the company works towards an antitrust settlement in the European Union and faces scrutiny in South Korea. Schmidt, who until recently was Google's chief executive, previously… Read More

Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt took the stage in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, for the D9 Conference late yesterday to give his exclusive take on the tech world. During the interview with All Things Digital's Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, Schmidt dished on the technology industry's most important players, and took the blame for Google's inability to successfully make it in the world of social networking.… Read More

Just yesterday, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt was saying that the company wouldn't be developing a facial recognition database. Now, a patent has been published by the USPTO entitled: “Automatically Mining Person Models of Celebrities for Visual Search Applications”. The timing is bad considering all the negative press about Google lately. The Google engineers state in the celebrity facial recognition patent that, by feeding a… Read More

He may have a point. In a speech Wednesday, Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt clearly said that efforts by the United States and Britain to block Internet access to file-sharing websites would endanger freedom of speech and be a “disastrous” step toward the censored Internet in China, reports the Guardian. The comments came during the keynote at Google's Big Tent conference in London. Late last year, the U.S.… Read More

Today marks Google co-founder's first day of work as CEO of the company he co-founded with Sergey Brin in 1996 while they were both Ph.D. candidates at California's Stanford University. Google announced back in January that Page would be taking over the CEO role in April of this year, assuming responsibility for day-to-day operations of the company as well as its strategy and management structure. The move marks a significant… Read More

Talk about an exclusive get-together. According to ABC News' Jake Tapper, President Barack Obama is reportedly meeting in San Francisco today with some of the technology world's biggest players: Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Google's Eric Schmidt, GE chief executive Jeffrey Immelt and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Details of the meeting were delivered by an anonymous source, who did not say what would be covered in the meeting,… Read More

Eric Schmidt spoke at the Mobile World Congress today where he debuted a new Movie Studio video editing app for Android tablets and shared Google's ambitious (and creepy) upcoming plans for Android. Toward the end of the conference he had an open question and answer session. We've compiled a few of his most interesting answers. Enjoy! Here are a few of his answers, succinctly paraphrased: Facebook's Ad business: It's not… Read More

Though he didn't stop for applause, listening to Eric Schmidt today felt like watching a president lay out starry-eyed plans for the future of the nation. The outgoing Google CEO spoke at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today and said his appearance at this large mobile event was only appropriate because Android is the fastest growing platform in the world. He began with a reminder of how far Google has come in a year. The State of… Read More