7 posts and columns on billionaires

Google CEO Apologizes for Street View Schmidtstorm

in News on October 26, 2010 at 9:54 am PT

Apologies from Google CEO Eric Schmidt are as rare as Bing bookmarks at Google HQ, so consider the one offered after the jump–for his cavalier suggestion that folks worried about Google Street View invading their privacy should “just move”–something of a milestone.

Schmidt: Don’t Like Google Street View Photographing Your House? Then Move.

in News on October 25, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the company’s “policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.” And while that may be true of Google, it’s clearly not true of Schmidt, who last week suggested that people concerned about photos of their homes appearing on Google Street View should “just move.”

Incoming! iPhone OS 3.0

in News on March 12, 2009 at 1:34 pm PT

A Billion Here, a Billion There and Pretty Soon It Adds Up to Real Money

in News on March 6, 2008 at 8:01 am PT

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates may be wealthier than you or I, but he’s not wealthier than Warren Buffett. The Berkshire Hathaway boss has overtaken Gates as the world’s wealthiest man. According to Forbes, Buffett is worth $62 billion. Gates is worth just $58 billion, which puts him in third place on the publication’s billionaires list [...]

John Wonders: What's Eating Henning Kagermann?

in News on July 3, 2007 at 5:59 pm PT

Corporate maneuverings are the stuff of our days and nights here at AllThingsD.com. So SAP’s retreat today from its hard line on fighting a copyright infringement suit brought by Oracle caught the eye of Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski, who found it curious that Henning Kagermann, SAP’s chief executive, backed down so suddenly after vowing “We have no intention to settle.”

BoomTown, the Sequel

in News on April 18, 2007 at 8:37 pm PT

BoomTown is back and waiting by the phone for your call.