Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh is threatening to remove the company’s 1,000 domain names off of GoDaddy after the huge Internet registrar came out in support of the Stop Online Privacy Act. The measure, house resolution 3261, would allow copyright holders to shut down Web sites that were accused of copyright infringement. But opponents say it… Read More…
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing yesterday on Google was closely watched for parallels to Microsoft’s antitrust quagmire of the 1990s. At a similar hearing in March 1998, Bill Gates insisted to some of the same senators that the company didn’t have monopoly power. Two months later, the government filed its landmark antitrust case against… Read More…
Some heavy hitters in the technology industry are tossing their support behind Mashape, a San Francisco startup that’s building a marketplace for Application Programming Interfaces or APIs. Among the investors in the company’s $1.5 million round are Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Bellevue venture capital firm Ignition Partners. Other investors… Read More…
Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, gave his take on the company’s Motorola acquisition — and the state of the U.S. patent system — as part of his appearance on stage at Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco this afternoon. Questioned by by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Schmidt said Google’s proposed $12.5 billion Motorola acquisition isn’t just… Read More…
There were plenty of headline-grabbing comments from Google chairman Eric Schmidt tonight coming out of the D9 conference in California. Many of them were not-so-subtle digs at Microsoft, which Schmidt all but dismissed as a provider of consumer technology platforms. He topped it off by recommending that anyone interested in security choose Macs over Windows PCs…. Read More…
Take this with a grain of salt, like a U.S. presidential approval rating based on a limited survey, but the latest CEO rankings from employment web site GlassDoor.com show Eric Schmidt faring considerably better in sentiment from his company’s employees than Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer and Yahoo’s Carol Bartz do among theirs. Schmidt’s approval rating from employees… Read More…
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