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

Meet Spongecell, a Profitable Ad Tech Company With $10 Million in New Funding

The start-up specializes in “rich media” Web ads, which isn’t a new idea. But Google’s Eric Schmidt liked it last year, and Safeguard Scientifics likes it, too.
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Resolutions for 2012 (Comic)

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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Top 10 Reasons Google’s Founders Want to Restore That Airship Hangar (Comic)

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
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News Byte

Google’s Top Brass Willing to Pay Up to Save NASA’s Hangar One

Google’s top three executives want to save Hangar One, NASA’s iconic Moffett Field airship house. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt are willing to pay the $33 million price tag in full, as long as they can park their eight private jets there once the revamp is done. NASA is said to be weighing the offer, according to the Mercury News.

Sheryl Sandberg: “I Have Never Worked for a Woman”

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is famously outspoken about women and their ambition gap. She delivered a speech on the topic today at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
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Google Chairman: Android Didn’t Copy iPhone Because It Predated It

What does Eric Schmidt have to say to Steve Jobs’s accusation that Google ripped off the iPhone with its Android mobile OS?
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Google’s Schmidt Says Android Will Remain Free

Google Inc. Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said Tuesday that the Internet search giant remains committed to offering its Android mobile operating system for free to its handset manufacturing partners.

Google Loses Longtime Lobbyist (Updated)

Alan Davidson, Google’s longtime director of public policy and government affairs, is taking a sabbatical to “explore other opportunities.”
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First Class Ticket: Social Travel Start-Up Gogobot Raises $15M in Funding at $70M Valuation

Around the world in $15 million.
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Gogobot Goes Mobile With New iPhone App

Google TV Coming to Europe in 2012