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Eric Schmidt
Microsoft makes advertising complaints against Google and U.S. antitrust enforcers begin investigations
Thu, 2011-09-22 08:03 - By
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According to Ad Age Digital, the U.S. antitrust enforcers are investigating whether Google illegally increased advertising rates 50-fold for rival Microsoft. The Federal Trade Commission is probing the increase, along with other allegations against Google related to advertising, as a result of complaints from Microsoft.
A U.S. Senate panel is holding a hearing entitled "The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition?" at which Google Chairman Eric Schmidt may be asked about the FTC's antitrust probe.
Google controlled 59% of the U.S. online search advertising market in the second quarter of this year, compared with second-place Microsoft at 9% and Yahoo at 7%, according to a report by IDC this week.
Several companies that advertise on Google's search results declined to comment on its advertising practices. Those declining to comment were AT&T, Monster Worldwide, Vonage and Dell.
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Eric Schmidt named Cannes Lions 2011 Media Person of the Year
Sun, 2011-05-22 07:09 - By
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This year, The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is proud to honour Eric Schmidt, Google’s Executive Chairman, who since joining Google in 2001, has helped grow the company from a Silicon Valley start-up to a global leader in technology.
“Under Eric’s leadership, Google has truly changed the way people around the world access information on a daily basis,” comments Philip Thomas, Cannes Lions CEO. “He has helped build Google in an astonishingly short period of time into one of the world’s biggest advertising medium and one of the world’s most valuable brands. We are delighted to honour Eric with this award.”
Eric Schmidt says: “This award reflects the hard work of many people at Google working to develop new technologies to help advertisers thrive in the digital world.”
From 2001-2011, Eric served as Google’s Chief Executive Officer, overseeing the company’s technical and business strategy alongside founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Under his leadership, Google
dramatically scaled its infrastructure and diversified its product offerings while maintaining a strong culture of innovation.
Prior to joining Google, he was the Chairman and CEO of Novell and Chief Technology Officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Previously he served on the research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
(PARC), Bell Laboratories and Zilog. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University as well as a master’s degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Eric is a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council in the U.K. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a fellow in 2007. He also chairs the board of the New America Foundation, and since 2008 has been a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
He will be honoured during the Press, Cyber and Design Lions awards ceremony on the evening of Wednesday 22 June in the Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France.
Cannes Lions delegates will have the opportunity to attend the Google seminar on Wednesday 22 June at which Eric will be speaking.
Previous recipients of the Media Person of the Year Award include, Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook; Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corporation; Sir Anthony O’Reilly, CEO of Independent News & Media; Tsuneo Watanabe, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings; Sumner Redstone, Chairman and CEO of Viacom and Gerald Levin, CEO of AOL Time Warner.
Cannes Lions delegates will have the opportunity to attend the Google seminar on Wednesday 22 June at which Eric will be speaking.
To register to attend the 58th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, please visit www.canneslions.com
400,000 Android devices activated daily
Sun, 2011-05-15 07:49 - By
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During Google’s I/O developer conference, Eric Schmidt said that more than 400,000 Android-based devices, including tablets and smartphones, are being activated every day. The rate of growth amounting to 12 million units per month could mean that Android subscriptions may be doubling in size every nine months.
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Google to launch TV service by end of 2010
Wed, 2010-09-08 09:09 - By
Rapid TV News reports that Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, has confirmed the launch of Google TV in the United States before the end of 2010 and worldwide next year. The announcement comes on the heels of the launch of the new Apple TV, however, Google’s approach is diametrically different being network rather than device focused.
In a keynote at IFA in Berlin, Schmidt revealed that Google does not have the ambition of becoming a content producer and would instead try to develop a partnership ecosystem that encompasses content owners as well as CPE makers.
Google TV users will be able to use Android-powered smartphones and the Apple iPhone as remote control devices.
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Google say that fastest growing operations are in MENA
Fri, 2010-03-12 23:07 - By
Speaking at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed the Middle East and North Africa region is the company's fastest growing region in the world, in terms of the number of users and revenue generated. Schmidt also said the UAE had the fastest growing operations for the company in the world.
His keynote at the event focused on innovation in the media, stating that the future of the internet will be driven by mobile devices. Schmidt also said in his keynote address that half of all new internet connections are for mobile devices. "If you want to understand the future of internet don't think of it as pipes and tubes, think of it as a mobile device...," he told delegates at the event.
Explaining that the "new model is going to be in the inversion of the model we grew up with", he says that the strategy for media going forward will be 'internet first', where content producers, for example, will use the medium of the internet to build traction and get real numbers to then approach partners to raise additional funding.
But despite his obvious preference for online, Schmidt said he does not believe that the internet-based media will replace existing mediums and that it should instead be used a part of a broader strategy.
The Middle East only ‘graduated' in 2009, which is a term Google uses internally to signify that the infrastructure has been laid out and that it is now possible to start pursuing their mission here, which involves organising the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful.
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