Tag Archives: Eric Schmidt

Famous British actor and hell raiser Peter O’Toole (of Lawrence of Arabia fame) died last week, which is a great source of regret. My friend and sometime colleague George Parker recalls an occasion when he joined a poker school consisting ...

Google’s shares were suspended on the New York Nasdaq exchange when the company’s third quarter figures were released early, due to a printing cock-up apparently. The share price had fallen by nearly ten per cent per cent as the Q3 ...

That annual entertainment ‘the battle of Sir Martin’s money’ is on its way with WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell’s base pay set to rise from £1m to £1.25m which, in turn, will trigger much larger bonuses as these are based ...

Well WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell has never ducked a challenge and it looks as though he’s taking on a far bigger foe than long-time opponents Omnicom, Interpublic and Publicis Groupe in challenging Google’s domination of the provision of data ...

French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s clever plan to look both innovative and responsible at his unilateral ‘eG8’ summit in Deauville has flopped as his hand-picked collection of internet whizz guests (hand-picked by Maurice Levy of Publicis Groupe) roundly rejected his plans ...

Google is still coining money (latest quarterly profit is $2.3bn on sales of $8.6bn) but the company is searching harder than ever for new sources of revenue. This coincides with the return to the firm of co-founder Larry Page as ...

Heaven knows what Google is worried about but the sudden decision to boot CEO Eric Schmidt upstairs to executive chairman and replace him with founder Larry Page (pictured) does not suggest a company at ease with itself or its prospects. ...

Just a week after Apple’s Steve Jobs unveiled his miniaturised version of Apple TV, Google has stepped up to announce Google TV will launch in the US this autumn and around the rest of the world next year. For many ...