Google’s Eric Schmidt On Privacy, Politics and Facebook

At the first D9 session, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt talked about Facebook, privacy and politics.

Eric Schmidt

Executive Chairman
Google

Schmidt's decade at Google has been a busy one. Since joining in 2001, the company has grown from a Silicon Valley start-up to a household name across the globe. As executive chairman, he is responsible for the external matters of Google: building partnerships and broader business relationships, government outreach and technology thought leadership, as well as advising the CEO and senior leadership on business and policy issues. He has long been viewed as "the adult supervision" at the company, a role that – thank goodness – apparently includes speaking at conferences. Prior to joining Google, Eric was the chairman and CEO of Novell, chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems, and served on the research staff at Xerox PARC, Bell Labs and Zilog. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton as well as a master's and Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley.

Posts With Eric Schmidt

Viral Video: “Jaws” Guy Bites Mark Zuckerberg and “Eric” Brin at Webbys

If you love a celebrity getting all self-righteous on the world, especially the tech world, then here’s a big plate of Richard Dreyfuss for you.
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Cannes Ad Conference Roars for Twitter’s Jack Dorsey

The Cannes Lions, the people who put on a giant advertising trade show every year in France, have named Twitter’s Jack Dorsey as their “Media Person of The Year.” The honorific comes as Twitter has begun ramping up its ad-selling efforts. For context: Previous winners include Google’s Eric Schmidt and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

Klik App Does Mobile Facial Recognition in Real Time

Is taking pictures of your friends on your phone, tagging their names and uploading them just too darn hard?
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Stealthy Shape Security Lands $6 Million From Kleiner Perkins and Eric Schmidt

A security start-up aims to change the economics of launching hacking attacks.
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Here’s How Planetary Resources Plans to Mine Asteroids (Release)

Planetary Resources is building its own spacecraft to mine asteroids for raw materials, including platinum and water.
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How Much Does Wall Street Hate Google’s Stock-Split Plan?

And how much can shareholders who oppose it do about it? Very little. That won’t stop advisory firms and pension funds from having their say.
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Google Q1 Earnings: “Velocity, Execution and Focus”

Here’s how Google CEO Larry Page and his deputies explained their latest quarter and their effective stock split.
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L.A. Stories: Mike Jones and Peter Pham Talk About the Science of Tech Studios (Video)

Down in SoCal, there is some serious start-up experimentation going on.
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Google Has Taken a Break From Buyouts So Far This Year

Google’s appetite for acquisitions seems to have dulled in recent months. After buying 79 companies in 2011, Google hasn’t made a single purchase yet in 2012.
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Google’s Schmidt Insists Android Is “A Real Operating System”

Google’s Executive Chairman takes the stage in Barcelona. AllThingsD has live coverage.
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Resolutions for 2012 (Comic)

Gogobot Goes Mobile With New iPhone App