Articles about Eric Schmidt

As graduates push back on AI, UW’s Nobel-winning commencement speaker takes different approach

Nobel laureate Mary Brunkow will be the featured speaker at Saturday’s 151st commencement. She’s a scientist, not a tech executive — and unlike other graduation speakers this season, she’s not planning to sell students on AI. Read More

Former Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene and longtime Google CEO Eric Schmidt leaving Alphabet’s board of directors

Two long-serving members of Alphabet’s board of directors who also played prominent roles as executives at the company plan to… Read More

After 16 years, Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt is stepping down as executive chairman

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, announced Thursday afternoon that Eric Schmidt, who has played an outsized role in Google’s… Read More

Google Cloud takes the stage: Can the consumer tech giant finally crack the enterprise?

Google’s top executives will unveil their latest cloud initiatives Wednesday morning, making the case for big businesses to choose Google’s cloud over… Read More

Google’s Eric Schmidt calls for end to distinction between enterprise and consumer products

SAN FRANCISCO–Eric Schmidt thinks it’s high time for companies to see that there’s not a difference between enterprise and consumer… Read More

Google’s Eric Schmidt: Our biggest search competitor is Amazon — not Microsoft or Yahoo

When it comes to competition for search engine traffic, Google isn’t most worried about Microsoft Bing or Yahoo as a threat… Read More

Eric Schmidt says students should use Google Docs over Office ‘because it’s free!’

Why use Google Docs over Microsoft Word? According to Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, there’s a very simple answer. As… Read More

Google’s Eric Schmidt: Mobile has officially won — and now it gets interesting

As we start looking forward to the new year, Eric Schmidt thinks that there are going to be big changes… Read More

Eric Schmidt says consumers shouldn’t have drones, even though Google wants to use them

In an interview with the Guardian, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said that consumers shouldn’t be able to keep drones… Read More

Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh calls SOPA ‘cancer to the free web,’ threatens to ditch GoDaddy

Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh is threatening to remove the company’s 1,000 domain names off of GoDaddy after the huge Internet… Read More

Does Google have monopoly power? Watch Eric Schmidt dance around this one

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing yesterday on Google was closely watched for parallels to Microsoft’s antitrust quagmire of the… Read More

Bezos, Schmidt, Ignition and others toss support behind API marketplace Mashape

Some heavy hitters in the technology industry are tossing their support behind Mashape, a San Francisco startup that’s building a… Read More

Google’s Schmidt: Patent issues ‘terrible,’ but Motorola deal about more than that

Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, gave his take on the company’s Motorola acquisition — and the state of the U.S.… Read More

Google’s Eric Schmidt: Microsoft ‘not driving the consumer revolution’

There were plenty of headline-grabbing comments from Google chairman Eric Schmidt tonight coming out of the D9 conference in California. Many… Read More

Study: Microsoft’s Ballmer sees approval rating decline

Take this with a grain of salt, like a U.S. presidential approval rating based on a limited survey, but the latest… Read More