Tag Archive | "Eric Schmidt"
Eric Schmidt thinks developer preference for iOS over Android will wane in 6 months
There’s no disputing the fact that there are more Android users out there than iOS users. That notwithstanding, developers by and large tend to focus their efforts first (and sometimes exclusively) on Apple’s iOS before turning their attention to Android. But if you ask Google chairman Eric Schmidt, who spoke yesterday at the LeWeb conference, [...]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt dismisses claims that Android ripped off the iPhone
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Comments Off
By Josh Rosenthall: In his biography, Steve Jobs minced no words when it came to Android. Jobs vowed to spend every last penny in Apple’s coffers to destroy Android, claiming that it was a copycat product that unabashedly stole Apple’s IP. “I will spend my last dying breath if I need to…to right this wrong. [...]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt touts competitive threat of Siri in letter to US Sentate antitrust subcommittee
Monday, November 7, 2011
Comments Off
By Josh Rosenthall: Google may try hard to uphold their ”Don’t be Evil” mantra, but the search giant apparently has no qualms about being hypocritical. We saw this first hand a few months back when Google made a number of public statements about the sorry state of the patent system and how companies like Apple and [...]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt praises Steve Jobs – “He was always ahead of me”
Monday, October 17, 2011
Comments Off
By Josh Rosenthall: Erick Schmidt and Steve Jobs have had their squabbles over the years, most famously when Jobs felt Schmidt stabbed him and Apple in the back with their plans for Android. You might remember that Schmidt at one point was a board member at Apple before resigning in 2009 citing a conflict of [...]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt says he stayed on Apple’s Board until he “couldn’t stand the board anymore”
Friday, September 2, 2011
Comments Off
Update: The original source of this story, Bloomberg, contained a misquote as Schmidt did not claim, after all, that he couldn’t stand Apple’s board. In a recent interview at the Dreamforce 2011 conference, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt explained that he stayed on Apple’s Board of Directors until he “couldn’t stand the board anymore.” Schmidt’s [...]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt smugly wary of Apple’s involvement in Nortel patent acquisition
Monday, July 11, 2011
Less than two weeks ago, Apple was part of a consortioum of tech companies who acquired over 6,000 patents from Nortel. Together with EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, RIM, and Sony, the winning bid was $4.5 billion. Lost in the shuffle, notably, was Google whose bids reached up into the billions but couldn’t compete with the combined [...]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt tries to talk Tina Fey out of her iPhone [Video]
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Comments Off
Anybody who watches 30 Rock has undoubtedly noticed a strong tinge of Apple product placement. MacBook Pros abound, and more than that, Liz Lemon (played by Tina Fey) is constantly whipping out her iPhone. Indeed, Tina Fey in real life has noted that she does, in fact, use a Mac to work on 30 Rock [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt garner high CEO approval ratings, Steve Ballmer and Carol Bartz not so much
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Comments Off
An anonymous survey taken by Glassdoor.com recently compared CEO approval ratings in 2011 against approval ratings from 2010.
Continue reading...When Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to hire Steve Jobs
Monday, March 21, 2011
Comments Off
Going all the way back to the late 90′s when Google was still an up and coming startup, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were more than content to run their company themselves. Their exuberance, however, was tempered by a venture capital firm who insisted that the two young Stanford PhD candidates hire a seasoned [...]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt scoffs at the notion of taking over as Apple CEO
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Comments Off
With Steve Jobs on medical leave and Eric Schmidt no longer the CEO of Google, some fools have been suggesting that Schmidt might be a good CEO for Apple down on the line. Though Schmidt had previously served on Apple’s board of directors, he left on somewhat shaky terms in light of Google entering the [...]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt wasn’t always “in the know” as Google CEO
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Comments Off
Though Eric Schmidt will no longer be responsible for handling day-to-day CEO duties at Google, an old 2009 interview with the former CEO reveals that even as the head honcho, he wasn’t always aware of what good ole’ Larry and Sergey were up to. Reporter: Please talk about M&A plans and goal of one acquisition [...]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt to step down, Larry Page to take over as Google CEO
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Comments Off
Google announced today that starting on April 4, Google co-founder Larry Page will take over CEO duties from current CEO Eric Schmidt. Schmidt, meanwhile, will take on a role as Google Executive Chairman with a focus on fostering business partnerships and various government outreach and technological initiatives. Schmidt will also remain on as an advisor [...]
Continue reading...When Google co-founders Larry Paige and Sergey Brin asked Steve Jobs to be CEO
Monday, November 1, 2010
Comments Off
Bloomberg’s ongoing Game Changersseries, which previously profiled Apple CEO Steve Jobs, recently covered Google founders Larry Paige and Sergey Brin on their path from Stanford to the kings of search. Interestingly, the program recounts how Paige and Brin both visited Apple’s campus in Cupertino to meet with Jobs to discuss if the Apple co-founder would be [...]
Continue reading...Google’s Eric Schmidt says Google is activating 200,000 handsets a day
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Comments Off
Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently said that the company is activating 200,000 Android handsets a day. TechCrunch has more on the story over here.
Continue reading...Steve Jobs plays coy about Google/Eric Schmidt betrayal, avoids the topic with amusing “sex life” retort
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Comments Off
It’s no secret that Apple and Google, once the best of Silicon Valley friends, are now competing against each other on a number of fronts: Apple has the iPhone, Google has Android. Google is the king of search, and Apple is planning to roll out its own advertising platform very soon. Then there’s Chrome, and [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs and Google CEO Eric Schmidt enjoy a cup of Joe
Friday, March 26, 2010
Comments Off
Despite reports that Apple CEO Steve Jobs “simply hates” Google CEO Eric Schmdit because of Google’s efforts to take on the iPhone with its Android mobile OS, the two tech luminaries were spotted chatting and enjoying some afternoon coffee at Calafia, a Palo Alto cafe. Now if only the person who took these photos had [...]
Continue reading...
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Comments Off