Eric E. Schmidt
Google enterprise chief: Data is safer on our cloud than your PC
March 10, 2011: 10:32 AM ETGoogle has an enterprise division? Yes, and here's how they're using every asset the company has, from Apps to Android, to beat the big players.
Dave Girouard of Google. Image by dfarber via Flickr
Dave Girouard first joined Google seven years ago, back when the search company wasn't even on the radar of corporate customers. Girouard now serves as president of Google's (GOOG) enterprise division, a fast-growing (though still tiny) part of the company's business. Over three million corporate customers subscribe to Google Apps, a suite of web services that includes customized email addresses, shared documents and calendars. And Google is determined to make its successful Android mobile operating system a viable competitor to RIM's (RIMM) BlackBerries and Apple's (AAPL) iPhones in the workplace. I recently caught up with Girouard to find out how his division is tackling reliability and security issues (not to mention competition from Microsoft (MSFT), Android's prospects as a business-ready device and what the upcoming management changes at Google could mean for the company's enterprise business.
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Eric Schmidt on Nokia, new Android OS, XOOM's Movie Studio...
... Chrome vs. Android, and where's Larry (Page, CEO)?
As Google's (GOOG) outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt's talks usually are, today's at Moble World Congress was candid, informative and full of "with your permissions". He spoke on a number of topics but the most interesting I'll break down below.
On the recent Nokia- Microsoft Deal:
"We would've loved if they chose Android. They chose Windows. The offer to adopt later is still open. We MORE
Seth Weintraub - Feb 15, 2011 5:40 PM ET -
Google's Schmidt tries to avoid clashes with EU regulators
In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, the Google Chairman said he'd do just about anything to avoid investigations, even change its search algorithms.
Google's (GOOG) outgoing CEO was candid on the company's trouble with EU investigators, which seem to be sniffing around just about every business the search and services goliath gets into these days. From the relatively benign car data gathering, to its possible abuse of power in search MORE
Seth Weintraub - Feb 7, 2011 5:49 PM ET -
DLD Video: Eric Schmidt talks about his next decade at Google
The soon to be Ex-CEO also announced Google would add 1,000 more jobs in Europe
You'll want to skip ahead to 6 minutes unless...just skip ahead.
Current Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt says that his "next decade at Google will be better than his previous decade," suggesting that he'll be sticking around for a while. He also discusses crowd-sourcing, smartphones and Google knowing what you want before you search, or MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jan 25, 2011 10:39 AM ET -
Did the China decision mark the beginning of the end for Eric Schmidt?
It seems that the move may not have only ended Google's presence in China, but also Schmidt's tenure.
In a piece in the New Yorker, Googled Author Ken Auletta argues that the decision to pull Google (GOOG) out of China was the turning point for outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt in his decision to step down from the company's Chief Executive role.
According to close advisors, the Google C.E.O. was upset a year ago when MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jan 23, 2011 2:37 PM ET -
Schmidt's new role: Google defender/evangelist?
It is safe to say that no one saw this coming, which may mean that there is some truth to Google's statements.
Every time there is change at the top of a company, customers, vendors, shareholders...just about everyone wants to know what happened. Often it isn't good news. But, buried in yesterday's management shakeup news, Google's (GOOG) earnings beat the street. Year over year growth was up almost 30%. Outside of Facebook MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jan 21, 2011 10:23 AM ET -
Exits: Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt
We know why Jobs left. Schmidt, the numbers suggest, is out for very different reasons
In a post entitled "Why Eric Schmidt had to go," Asymco's Horace Dediu, cuts through the millions of bits spilled Thursday over Google CEO's surprise reassignment with two simple charts.
The first, at right, compares Apple's (AAPL) growth rate over the past quarter with Google's (GOOG).
Apple, he points out, grew about 2.5 times faster. "The companies are MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 21, 2011 7:56 AM ET -
Adult supervision over: Schmidt yields back to Google co-founder Page
Larry Page, the original Google CEO, gets his job back.
No one saw it coming. Sure the Google board, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt knew about the executive change-up bomb they were about to drop Thursday, but for most everyone else within Google (GOOG) and without, the news of Schmidt's departure as CEO came as a complete surprise. So was it a pleasant surprise?
The short answer is, not exactly. MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - Jan 20, 2011 9:00 PM ET -
Andy Rubin: Android 'Perfect Storm' brewing in emerging markets
The falling prices of handsets and the buildout of advanced mobile networks will help Android grow at unprecedented rates in the developing world, according to Google's head of Android.
Andy Rubin tweeted last week that Google (GOOG) was activating 300,000 Android phones a day. That number reflects incredible growth in a year that started with a tenth as many activations. At 300,000 phones/day, Google is on track to activate over 110 million MORE
Seth Weintraub - Dec 14, 2010 10:25 AM ETPosted in: AAPL, Android, AndyRubin, Apple, Eric E. Schmidt, Financial Times, GOOG, Google, iPhone, Virgin Mobile -
How Google can thrive in the age of Facebook
By some measures. we're hitting an Internet age that leaves Google behind. But here's a prescription to keep search relevant in the face of Facebook's social empire.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
Being king of the web is a short-lived gig. Only several years ago the web was navigated by search and Google was the clear king of innovation. Now, as the web takes on an increasingly social structure we seem to be MORE
Dec 6, 2010 3:00 AM ETPosted in: Eric E. Schmidt, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Google, Google Buzz, Microsoft, MySpace, Orkut, Silicon Valley, Twitter, YouTube
