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Four things Bill Gates can teach Eric Schmidt
When Google's executive chairman testifies during a Senate hearing on antitrust issues today, he'll be following in the footsteps of another tech titan: Bill Gates. Here's what he should know.
FORTUNE -- When Google's executive chairman testifies during a Senate hearing on antitrust issues today, he'll be following in the footsteps of another tech titan: Bill Gates.
In 1998, Gates appeared before Congress alongside ex-Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy and former Netscape MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 21, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: Bill Gates, David Boies, Eric Schmidt, Expedia, Google, IBM, Jim Barksdale, Microsoft, Scott McNealy -
The antitrust case against Google
The Senate hearings scheduled for Wednesday will only scratch the surface
Apple (AAPL) is conspicuously absent from the witness list for Wednesday's hearing on "The Power of Google" before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition and Consumer Rights. Yelp! and Nextag will be represented, but Google (GOOG) has stepped on a lot more toes than theirs to maintain and extend its dominance of the Internet's sustaining source of revenue -- advertising MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 19, 2011 7:38 AM ETPosted in: Antitrust, Apple, Eric Schmidt, Google, Microsoft, Mobile, Monopoly, New York Times, Nextag, U.S. Senate, Yelp -
Today in Tech: Should Yahoo's board be fired next?
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* Om Malik over at GigaOm proposes that Yahoo's (YHOO) slow-moving board should ousted too, and offers up a few new board candidates. (GigaOm)
* AOL (AOL) execs have decided to fire TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, though how they plan to do it remains unclear. The timing perhaps couldn't be MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 8, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: AOL, Apple, Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Google, HTC, iPhone, Michael Arrington, Turntable.fm, Yahoo -
How Android came to dominate
Google's $12.5 billion bid to buy Motorola Mobility is likely to reshape the mobile industry. But a deal would have been unimaginable without the surging Android platform.
FORTUNE -- Google's proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of handset maker Motorola Mobility is a bid to protect itself from litigious competitors as well as to dramatically move its mobile business forward. But the search titan's biggest acquisition ever wouldn't even be imaginable if it MORE
Beth Kowitt, Writer-Reporter - Aug 16, 2011 11:12 AM ET -
Eric Schmidt wraps Android in the mantle of innovation
Does one of these phones look like the other? You be the judge.
"The big news in the past year has been the explosion of Google Android handsets and this means our competitors are responding... they are not responding with innovation, they're responding with lawsuits." -- Former Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt in Tokyo on Apple's (AAPL) suits against Samsung, HTC and other Android manufacturers.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 19, 2011 12:03 PM ET -
Today in Tech: Google + has millions of users already
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"On the general question of bubble, in the first place you don't know it's a bubble until the bubble ends, by definition. The rule I set for myself 10 years ago was that if the press calls it a bubble then I'd pay attention." -- Eric Schmidt, Google MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 11, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Eric Schmidt, Google, Jean-Louis Gassée, Marc Andreessen, Paul Allen, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, TouchPad, WebOS, YouTube -
Today in Tech: Apple WWDC revisited
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* Yesterday at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple covered a number of new product announcements: details on OSX Lion's new features, July release and $29 price tag, a look at some of the 200 new features in iOS5 including an updated notification system, and finally, iCloud, an MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 7, 2011 6:52 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Why Google's former CEO 'screwed up'
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"I clearly knew that I had to do something, and I failed to do it ... A CEO should take responsibility. I screwed up." -- Chairman Eric Schmidt on the company's struggle with social. (All Things D)
* During his appearance at All Things D's D9 conference MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 1, 2011 6:30 AM ET -
The conniption around IP and copyright law
With a debate about major changes to IP, copyright and piracy statutes erupting in Washington, industry lobbyists and Google are engaged in a war of words.
FORTUNE -- A scathing report delivered to the British government this week urges that policy on intellectual property be applied "on the basis of evidence, rather than weight of lobbying." That, the report noted, would be a big change from the status quo.
It would seem MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - May 20, 2011 12:28 PM ET -
Google's choice: Employees or Wall Street
Employees.
Google (GOOG) stock took a huge hit last week following its earnings call, dropping and incredible 47 points or 8.26% from closing the day before. That's $15B in market cap and its biggest one day loss since the 2008 Bear market.
Google surpassed revenue expectations by a significant margin and missed consensus EPS by mere pennies, so why did the stock get hit so badly?
Cowan's Jim Friedland notes,
Google's Q1:11 revenues exceeded expectations. However, MORE
Seth Weintraub - Apr 18, 2011 7:03 AM ETPosted in: Eric Schmidt, Facebook, Google, Jonathan Rosenberg, Larry Page, Mark Mahaney, Search, Wall Street
