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Google on Facebook-Bing Social Search: What, Us Worry?

A day after the Bing-Facebook alliance that all but slapped them in the face, Google executives say they're getting their social search on too.READ»

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Google's Schmidt Sees Good Future in China, But Is This Just "Spin"? [Update: Maybe not]

Google's CEO Eric Schmidt thinks that soon his company will resolve its differences with the Chinese government over their ongoing operations in the censor-happy nation. Is he right? Or merely hopelessly optimistic?Schmidt was ...READ»

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Eric Schmidt: 160,000 Android Phones Activated Each Day. Impressive, or Anti-iPhone PR?

Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, has given an interview to the Guardian in which he claims that 160,000 Android mobile devices are being activated each day. That's up 60% in a month. Schmidt also claimed that because Android is free, it ...READ»

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Google Hands Over "Rogue Data" to Euro Authorities, Apologizes Again

Google said yesterday that it will comply with European rulings and hand over the data it snagged from private, unsecured wireless networks. READ»

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Google's Eric Schmidt Shown as Perverter of Privacy on Times Square Jumbotron

Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, took to Times Square this week to protest Google's privacy invasions.READ»

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iFive: Footie Farewell, BP Spill, Google's Interactive Ads, U.S. and U.K. Govt. Broadband Plans, Barefoot Bandit Banged Up

While you were slumbering in your bed, innovación was dancing a pasa doble with the Jules Rimet trophy on its head, crying tears of alegría, and wibbling about in a state of what can only described as benevolent inebriation. Way to ...READ»

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What Will Google's Newspaper Crusade Mean for Readers?

It's nice that CEO Eric Schmidt feels Google has a "moral responsibility" to help reinvent the newspaper industry. But how? Hyper-personalization might be the way, according to the Neiman Journalism Lab at Harvard, which pressed ...READ»

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Google CEO's Surprising Comment of the Day: Newspapers Will Thrive

When reading about developments in the ailing printed news industry, we tend to hear arguments presented from the old media side of the fence. Now Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, has stepped up, and he thinks the industry will survive, ...READ»

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iFive: Schmidt's Facebook-Scraping, Diaspora's Open Social, Skyhook Sues Google, SMS Taxes, Europe's Moon Rover

As you digest your breakfast, here's today's early news, pre-digested for your convenience.READ»

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Google's 600 Gigabyte Privacy Fiasco, by the Numbers

Google inadvertently collected about 600 gigabytes of personal data. Here's what that amount means to you.READ»

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How Companies Have Sex

The new game is combining organizational DNA in unique and inventive ways.READ»

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How to Approach Branding like a Game—and Win

Is it a coincidence that Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt (a.k.a. the founder of Google) are all avid chess players? Probably not. Building a brilliant brand is a game of strategy—a game that these men have mastered with ...READ»

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7 Creepy Faux Pas of Google CEO Eric Schmidt

In the last few months Eric Schmidt, the gaffe-prone CEO of Google, has made public statements that make us question whether the company's slogan could still be "Don't be evil." READ»

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Class Acts

Each spring, corporate America's preeminent chieftains offer sage counsel to eager university graduates across the nation. Here's our Class of 2005.READ»

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How to Manage Geeks

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Novell, believes that "geek" is a badge of honor. (After all, he is one!) But how do you manage these geek gods? Just follow his nine-point techie tutorial.READ»

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iFive: Apple's New iPhone and Chicago's Spire Are Rising and Google's Old Wonder Boy Is Falling in Today's Innovation News

While you slept, innovation brushed up his resume and begged Google CEO Eric Schmidt to let him come home. Here's today's top innovation news: Next-gen iPhone rumors abound. Video camera, faster Net, can act as a DVR remote. ...READ»

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The Apple Wannabes: Dell, Microsoft, Pepsi, and Google

Inside the secret brainstorms that begin with the dreaded phrase, "If only we could be more like Apple."READ»

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Captain Courageous

A headhunter on the qualities that mark a brave CEO.READ»

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Google's CEO Is Serious About Chrome OS: It's Not a Windows Rival

The Internet's been alive with supposition, speculation and inspired guesses since Google's Chrome OS news hit this week. That's possibly why Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, stepped up and talked about things. He's serious about ...READ»

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The Road to HAL Is Paved With Good Intentions: The Future of Google?

Google's CEO wants to take the company beyond search. Way beyond...READ»

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The Big Theme at Web 2.0

The big theme at this year's Web 2.0 Summit was never mentioned on-stage. It wasn't related to any of the buzzwords uttered in the hallways: tagging, social media, Ajax, or viral video. The big theme, as I read it, was ...READ»

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Why the FCC's Broadband Plan Will Struggle to Connect with the Public

Today is when the FCC delivers its National Broadband Strategy to Congress. We've already had some sneak peeks at the deets, such kitting 100 million households out with super-fast speeds with either a free or lo-cost version, getting ...READ»

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Smart Steps

What smart steps should business leaders be taking to deal with Act II of the new economy? Maybe the smartest thing to do is to take stock of Act I: What lessons did we learn in the first five years of the new economy?READ»

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Google's Digitizing Iraqi Historic Archives

Google's extending its grip on the digital world in a wholly new and surprising way: It's just brokered a deal with Iraq's authorities to digitize historic artifacts and documents in the country's museums. It's a philanthropic move, ...READ»

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NVPR Expands Into South America

NVPR EXPANDS INTO SOUTH AMERICAOPENS OFFICE IN BUENOS AIRES EXPANSION COINCIDES WITH INAGURATION OF GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK    Los Angeles and Buenos Aires (--November 18, 2008--) NVPR is expanding into South America and ...READ»