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  House panel to move forward on Stop Online Piracy Act

  A U.S. House of Representatives committee has scheduled a debate and vote on controversial copyright legislation, the Stop Online Piracy Act, with the bill's main sponsor offering an amendment meant to address some concerns with the bill.

  By Grant Gross | 13 December, 2011 11:30

  Tags: advertising, copyright, D.C., e-commerce, Economic Club of Washington, eric schmidt, Google, government, intellectual property, internet, Internet-based applications and services, Internet service providers, Lamar Smith, legal, legislation, Music and audio, search engines, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, video

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  Eric Schmidt: Yup, Carrier IQ is a "keylogger"

  Google chairman Eric Schmidt says the controversial Carrier IQ network diagnostics tool was bad.

  By Liam Tung | 09 December, 2011 08:34

  Tags: Carrier IQ, eric schmidt, Google

• Senators question if Google has biased search results

  Several U.S. senators accused Google of giving search preferences to its own suite of services over competitors, but executive chairman Eric Schmidt denied that his company is manipulating search results during a hearing Wednesday.

  By Grant Gross | 22 September, 2011 07:18

  Tags: advertising, Al Franken, antitrust, eric schmidt, Google, government, internet, Jeff Katz, legal, Mike Lee, Nextag, Regulation, Richard Blumenthal, search engines, Susan Creighton, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, yelp

• Experts: Google antitrust probe to shed light on search

  The US Federal Trade Commission's antitrust investigation into Google's search engine could shine some light on the secret inner workings of the company's search ranking decisions and the relationship between advertising and free search results, some Google critics said Friday.

  By Grant Gross | 17 September, 2011 07:29

  Tags: advertising, American Homeowners Grassroots Alliance, antitrust, Berkeley, Bruce Hahn, Eric Clemons, eric schmidt, Geoffrey Manne, Google, government

• Google cites Schmidt testimony in Android suit defense

  Google wants a judge to throw out Java copyright infringement claims Oracle has lodged against the Android mobile OS, based partly on 17-year-old testimony from an unlikely source: Google executive chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 03 August, 2011 01:41

  Tags: oracle, Google, Sun Microsystems, software, business issues, legal, intellectual property, Civil lawsuits, open source, application development, Languages and standards, mobile, Telecommunication, Mobile OSes, Android, eric schmidt

• Schmidt’s departure from Google “fortuitous”: Vint Cerf

  Renowned ‘father of the internet’, Vint Cerf, has lauded Eric Schmidt’s recent announcement to step down as Google’s chief executive as “fortuitous” timing that will speed up decision making at the search giant.

  By James Hutchinson | 24 January, 2011 11:35

  Tags: Apple, eric schmidt, good, networking, Vint Cerf

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  Google's CEO switch could be a risky move

  Google's decision to change CEOs, announced on the same day it reported yet another blockbuster quarter, begs the question of whether the company is trying to fix something that isn't broken.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 24 January, 2011 02:39

  Tags: advertising, business issues, Business Management, CEOs, cloud computing, eric schmidt, Google, internet, personnel, restructuring, search engines

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  Schmidt to step aside as Google CEO, Page taking over

  Google co-founder Larry Page will take over as Google CEO in April from Eric Schmidt, who will remain with the company as executive chairman.

  By Juan Carlos Perez and Stephen Lawson | 21 January, 2011 09:42

  Tags: advertising, business issues, eric schmidt, financial results, Google, internet, Larry Page, personnel, search engines

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  Google's goals this year are all mobile, CEO says

  All of Google's strategic initiatives this year are about mobile, the company's CEO, Eric Schmidt, wrote in a guest article for the Harvard Business Review titled "Preparing for the Big Mobile Revolution."

  By Nancy Gohring | 21 January, 2011 07:17

  Tags: advertising, consumer electronics, eric schmidt, Google, internet, mobile, Phones, search engines, smartphones, Telecommunication

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  Mobile providers form new digital wallet venture

  Three of the four largest mobile phone carriers in the U.S. have formed a joint venture to turn phones into digital wallets, allowing subscribers to pay for groceries and other retail items using their phones, instead of credit cards or other methods.

  By Grant Gross | 17 November, 2010 03:57

  Tags: Apple, at&t, Barclaycard US, Benjamin Vigier, e-commerce, eric schmidt, GE Capital, Google, internet, Michael Abbott, mobile, Nokia, Telecommunication, T-Mobile USA, Verizon Wireless

• Google and AOL renew long-term partnership

  Google and AOL have renewed a long-term partnership that gives AOL Web properties access to Google search and advertising services.

  By Grant Gross | 03 September, 2010 02:30

  Tags: advertising, AOL, business issues, eric schmidt, Google, internet, search engines, Tim Armstrong, Tricia Primrose, youtube

• Google, Verizon make net neutrality proposal

  Google and Verizon Communications have released a proposal that would give the U.S. Federal Communications Commission limited power to enforce network neutrality rules, including levying fines up to US$2 million for violations by broadband providers.

  By Grant Gross | 10 August, 2010 05:42

  Tags: broadband, eric schmidt, free press, Gigi Sohn, Google, government, internet, Internet service providers, Ivan Seidenberg, Joel Kelsey, Julius Genachowski, net neutrality, Public Knowledge, Regulation, search engines, Telecommunication, Tom Tauke

• Five reasons wireless providers should fear Google

  When Google chief executive Eric Schmidt took the stage at Mobile World Congress, it seemed that many of his remarks were meant to placate the mobile phone industry. And for good reason: Over the last year, Google has become a mobile powerhouse -- this was Schmidt's first keynote in Barcelona, after all - that, in many ways, competes with wireless service providers. The past year has seen a proliferation of Android phones and the debut of powerful mobile apps such as Google Voice and Maps Navigation. It's a good thing in that Google's driving sales, but it's also a cause for concern. Here are five reasons mobile telcos should be worried about Google:

  By Jared Newman | 18 February, 2010 04:51

  Tags: eric schmidt, Google Android, Mobile World Congress, telco, wireless networks

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  Google CEO has no plans to compete with mobile operators

  Google has made investments in wireless networks, is testing gigabit-to-the-home technology, and is selling 60,000 Android smartphones a day -- yet has no plans to compete with network operators, CEO Eric Schmidt told attendees at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday.

  By Peter Sayer | 17 February, 2010 07:35

  Tags: eric schmidt, Google, mobile services, Mobile World Congress

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  Brin, Schmidt eye further Google expansion

  Despite Google's phenomenal growth, the Internet search giant does not appear to be worried about taking on too many projects, judging from comments made at a media roundtable Wednesday with company cofounder Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt.

  By Marc Ferranti | 08 October, 2009 05:59

  Tags: eric schmidt, Google