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Is something wrong with Google?
It seems the company's best days are behind it, or that Facebook is eating its lunch. But maybe Google is so far ahead of the game that we're the ones who need to catch up.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
What is going on with Google? Sure, today President Obama will be meeting with Eric Schmidt at a tech executive meet-up in Silicon Valley, but he almost seems an also-ran compared to the attention MORE
Feb 17, 2011 1:20 PM ET -
GOOG to 1200 in 18 months?
Two investors think that Google is the most undervalued of the large cap tech companies.
Daily Finance quotes Philip D. Tasho, CEO and chief investment officer at Tamaro Capital Partners, and Timothy A. Holland, a principal and co-portfolio manager at that institutional management firm as saying, "We view Google (GOOG) as the best balance of value and growth in the large-cap MORE
Seth Weintraub - Feb 9, 2011 11:48 AM 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 -
Today in Tech: Verizon iPhone ad, iPad 2 in April?
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
During Google's earnings call yesterday, the Internet giant announced that CEO Eric Schmidt is resigning his role to focus on being Chairman, making room for co-founder Larry Page to take over as CEO. Meanwhile, Sergey Brin's title will change to co-founder. "I am enormously proud of my last decade as CEO, and I am certain that the MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 21, 2011 8:10 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 -
Excite passed up buying Google for $750,000 in 1999
Of all of the bargains in the history of tech, this might have been the best. And it was passsed on.
The story goes: In 1999, Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures (and eventual partner at Kleiner Perkins) got Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to agree to sell the company to Excite for $1 million. Excite's George Bell wasn't interested.
After Excite CEO George Bell rejected Page and Brin's $1 million price MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 29, 2010 6:17 PM ET -
Larry Page: Jobs is rewriting history
According to the Google founder, Steve Jobs' assessment of Google's Android entering into the iPhone's market is revisionist history.
In a briefing Thursday at the Allen & Co's Sun Valley conference, Google (GOOG) co-founder Larry Page told reporters that Steve Jobs had changed Android's history to suit Apple's (AAPL) interests. He contended that Google had been working on Android long before the iPhone was introduced.
Page said,
"We had been working on Android a very long MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 9, 2010 11:31 AM ET -
Face-off: Is Google motivated by self-interest or indignation?
Fortune contributing editor David A. Kaplan and senior editor Roger Parloff got into a spirited email debate Wednesday: When it came to pulling out of China, was Google doing no evil or simply doing what was best for business? David suspected long-term profit: "By taking the action it did ... Google enhances its standing in the American imagination." Roger didn't much care about motive: "It would be like asking if MORE
Mar 25, 2010 11:05 AM ET
