Eric Schmidt to Step Down as Google CEO in April

Posted on 20. Jan, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey in NewsIn a blog post today, Google CEO Eric Schmidt remarks about how far the company has come since he joined Google in 2001. He is also announcing that the running of the company will turn to Larry Page April 4. From the earnings release:Larry said: “Eric has clearly done an outstanding job leading Google for the last decade. The results speak for themselves. There is no other CEO in the world that ....

Google Reports Strong Fourth Quarter, Bright 2011 Outlook

In a fourth quarter earnings call that featured in the beginning some comments from Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin about leadership restructuring, the outlook and overall strategy seems to be in a good place for the company. 2010 was an excellent financial year for Google, and a fantastic fourthquarter. The company saw revenue of $8.44 billion, which is a 26% increasefrom 2009′s fourth quarter. Net income was $2.54 which is up over ....

Daily: Links for 1/20/11

Want to do web development in Chrome OS with the Cr-48? One developer has posted a guide to doing so.TheDev Channel of Chrome browser has been updated with a new version of V8, fixes for tabbed preferences and Instant tweaks.Will Google under Larry Page result in a more agile company, along with quicker product releases?Google is launching a Groupon clone called Google Offers since it was spurned from buying the company outright.Here’s a look....

Video: Larry Page Talks Tech’s Future

Although Larry Page will be taking over from Eric Schmidt after the first quarter and become the public face of Google, he’s never really spent a lot of time in the spotlight. Here is a video from Google’s Faculty Summit in 2009 that may show what that might look like.via TheNextWeb Share/Bookmark

Eric Schmidt on Chrome OS Launch: “Among the Most Important of My Working Life”

Google CEO Eric Schmidt took to the stage on December 7 after updates on Chrome, the Chrome Web Store and Chrome OS were given out. He talked a lot about how cloud technology had been around for quite some time – ideas that he had used in the past to try to develop cloud computing machines.This was during his time at Sun Microsystems. While the idea had merit at the time, networks were simply not prepared to be able to handle this type of pla....

Click to Play Shows Up in Chrome Labs

A reader recently pointed out to me that I had somehow overlooked the fact that click to play had arrived in Chrome Labs for the latest Chromium builds, so here it is.As the name indicates, this allows granular authority as to whether a plugin can run or not. Sometimes Flash can be a particular annoyance, especially on some sites that automatically start running video.It’s somewhat intriguing to me that Eric Schmidt is indicating how importan....

Review Chrome Os -thechromesource Daily: Links for 10/27/10

3D acceleration has been improved through “about:flags” on Chrome Dev.GigaOM’s Sam Dean explores the platform differences between Android and Chrome OS.Mobile users actually prefer the browser over apps.Some of Eric Schmidt’s quotes are pretty interesting.Can you imagine spending seven days completely in the browser? Here’s a look. Share/Bookmark

Video: Eric Schmidt on Foreign Policy

This was shot yesterday at the Council of Foreign Relations. This sure is a short clip but it’s a good one. Fifteen percent of the queries that Google sees every day are brand new. We’re just at the beginning here, aren’t we? By the way, the other person speaking in the clip is Jared Cohen, who previously worked at the Secretary of State and is now the head of Google Ideas, a think tank. The context of this talk is a discussion of Schmidt an....

thechromesource Daily: Links for 10/14/10

Will Chrome OS prove to be one of the biggest stories of the year as Sam Dean from GigaOM suggests?Trying to prove it is not a one-trick pony, Google announced it now has three other billion dollar businesses to go with its text ads.The recent Facebook-Bing deal is associated with Mark Zuckerburg thinking that Google has no reason to innovate.With the cost of ARM-based hardware always going down, Google sees a future where every TV has a brow....

Video: Eric Schmidt at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010

He talks about how we are using computers to create an augmented version of reality, the power that devices can leverage with cloud computing and building an open web with Chrome. Share/Bookmark