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Google's Schmidt: Washington politics "not very interesting"

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in Washington this week as a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, popped into The Washington Post to chat with reporters and editors about a number of topics, including an FCC vote on net neutrality. Google's name has...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Washington, Net Neutrality, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'

Google CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledges that Google Docs lacks workflow features that Microsoft Office has, but isn't trying to emulate the suite. In an interview with Stephen Shankland at CNet News, Schmidt continued his courting of the enterprise. Schmidt on Wednesday had a good performance at the...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Google's Schmidt makes enterprise app case as consumer, corporate lines blur

In a room full of chief information officers, Google CEO Eric Schmidt made his case for the search giant's enterprise products adding that the boundary between a corporate user and a consumer "is becoming less and less." Speaking at the Gartner IT Symposium 2009 in Orlando in...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring

Google exceeded Wall Street's expectations for the third quarter by reporting net income of $1.88 billion, or $5.89 per share, on revenue of $5.94 billion, up 7 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Excluding traffic acquisition costs, Google's revenue was $4.38 billion. Wall Street analysts had been expecting...

Tags: Hiring, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Advertisement, Mobile, Recession, Investment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-15

Apple should name Cook to board

Apple is reportedly going to meet to weigh candidates for the board seat vacated by Google CEO Eric Schmidt. According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple directors will meet Tuesday to discuss Schmidt's replacement. Schmidt resigned from the board given that Apple and Google increasingly compete. ...

Tags: Eric Schmidt, Board, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-14

Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple board

Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple boardApple and GoogleSince we use Intel products nowand Since the hardware is "off the shelf" now& Since many businesses are looking for a new OSWhydoesn't apple port its OSto boxes that were made with hardware to fun windows or a linux distro or chrome?Of course...

Tags: Corporate governance, Operating systems, UNIX, Apple board, Apple Inc., Eric Schmidt, operating system, board

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

FTC: Our probe of Google-Apple boards continues

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from Apple's board but that won't be enough to curtail a probe by the Federal Trade Commission. In a terse statement, FTC bureau of competition director Richard Feinstein said: “We have been investigating the Google/Apple interlocking directorates issue for some...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Board, Apple Inc., FTC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-04

Apple Board vacancy: Good riddance to Eric Schmidt

Apple Board vacancy: Good riddance to Eric SchmidtArt Levinson is nextNow Genentech CEO Arthur Levinson needs to exit either Google's or Apple's board.RE: Apple Board vacancy: Good riddance to Eric SchmidtMy opinion is any of these Board members who receive Stock Options as partial remuneration for their services on this...

Tags: Corporate governance, Art Levinson, Apple Inc., board, Eric Schmidt, GOOD RIDDANCE, Apple Board vacancy, Intuit Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Apple Board vacancy: Good riddance to Eric Schmidt

Apple on Monday said that Google CEO Eric Schmidt won't have a seat at the next meeting of its board of directors. The only question was why did it take so long for push to come to shove for this joker. by David Morgenstern

Tags: Eric Schmidt, Board, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple board

Apple today announced that Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, is resigning from Apple’s Board of Directors, a position he has held since August 2006. “Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion and wisdom to help make Apple successful,”...

Tags: Eric Schmidt, Board, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Google's Schmidt resigns from Apple's board; Jobs: It would be recusal city

Apple said Monday that Google CEO Eric Schmidt will resign from the board of directors since the two companies increasingly compete. In a statement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said emphasis mine: “Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion...

Tags: Job, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Board, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Time to dump Schmidt from Apple board (Updated)

Since the announcement of its Chrome OS on Tuesday there has been a growing drumbeat calling for Eric Schmidt to step down from Apple's Board of Directors, and I agree. Schmidt has got to go. A day after the announcement that Google would battle Microsoft and Apple...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Board, Apple Inc., Krazit, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-07-10

Sun Valley roundup: Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple and more

There's plenty of high-profile buzz coming from Sun Valley, Idaho, where media executives have gathered for the annual Allen & Co. conference, considered to be an exclusive event for the who's who in the world of media and technology. Among the big questions capturing some attention: Will...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Twitter, Corporate Governance, Operating Systems, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-10

CNET: It's time for Google's CEO to resign from Apple's board

In an open letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, CNET's Tom Krazit this morning calls for his resignation from Apple's Board of Directors, citing an inevitable collision course for the companies as competitors now that Google has announced plans to build a computer operating system called Google Chrome OS. ...

Tags: Apple Inc., Board, Business Operations, CBS Interactive Inc., Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Eric Schmidt, Google Inc., Krazit, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Google CEO touts always-on computing [video]

At the Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco, Calif., company CEO Eric Schmidt shares his vision for a new computing paradigm. In his keynote, Schmidt says "this is the beginning of the real win of cloud computing, of applications." [video=305552] by Larry Dignan

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Video, Computing, CEO, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Marketing, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-28

Google CEO touts always-on computing

At the Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco, Calif., company CEO Eric Schmidt shares his vision for a new computing paradigm. In his keynote, Schmidt says "this is the beginning of the real win of cloud computing, of applications."

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Computing, CEO, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Google

Videos 2009-05-27

Google chief Eric Schmidt's Carnegie Mellon commencement speech (video)

Google chief Eric Schmidt's Carnegie Mellon commencement speech videoGoogle chief Eric Schmidt's commencement speechHere is what I sent to 60 of my colleaguesHi Remember when you were in college - how the commencement speech wasimportant to you? Here is one of the best 2009 Commencement speeches. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=18293 It is just...

Tags: Corporate communications, video, commencement speech, Google Chief, Eric Schmidt, Carnegie-Mellon University, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-23

Schmidt: Google aims to avoid Microsoft's antitrust mistakes

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that large companies are always worried about antitrust issues, but the search giant is working to "not make the mistakes, which in my view were quite tragic, that Microsoft made." Schmidt made the remarks in a long interview with the Financial Times....

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-21

Video: Eric Schmidt's commencement address at Penn

Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt was the guest speaker at University of Pennsylvania's 253rd Commencement address at Franklin Field on Monday, May 18, 2009. A video of his speech is available here (start at 1:48:40) -- although you'll need RealPlayer installed on your Mac to watch...

Tags: Eric Schmidt, Video, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Marketing, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-05-20

Google chief Eric Schmidt's Carnegie Mellon commencement speech (video)

Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement speech at Carnegie Mellon. He talks blogs, Tweets, how friend is now a verb and innovation. Via: Carnegie Mellon on Twitter. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Carnegie-Mellon University, Video, Corporate Communications, Blogging, Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-18