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Google’s Many Changes

Staff / Truthdig Sep 26, 2011 With the simple dictum "don't be evil" as its motto, the Internet software giant Google -- which ranked as the third-highest lobbying spender in the tech industry in 2010 -- wages an aggressive image and relations campaign with an international public, and its strategy is evolving. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Google’s Eric Schmidt Kills Trees

Staff / Truthdig Mar 8, 2011 The business brains behind Google tells The Atlantic about his decidedly low-tech taste in information: "For me, there’s no better place to get accurate, fresh information—well-reported information—than a newspaper." Schmidt reads both the paper and Web editions of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and prefers "paper and ink" books to e-readers. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Google Denies WikiLeaks Censorship

Staff / Truthdig Jan 29, 2011 In a BBC interview with Eric Schmidt, Google's outgoing chief executive, Schmidt spelled out his ambitions for Google in China as well as declaring that the search giant will deny government attempts to censor WikiLeaks documents. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Google CEO to Step Down

Staff / Truthdig Jan 21, 2011 Eric Schmidt, who took Google from humble origins to one of the world's most successful and most talked-about companies, announced Thursday that he is handing his job over to co-founder Larry Page, who, Schmidt blogs, "is ready to lead." Schmidt will stick around with the hefty title of executive chairman. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Google Can Help Newspapers, Says Google CEO

Staff / Truthdig Dec 4, 2009 Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt has gazed into the future of the news business, and -- surprise! -- he sees Google playing a big, vital role. In his Wall Street Journal Op-Ed piece, Schmidt heralds the advent, in the not-so-distant future, of an era in which the Internet "will foster a new, digital business model." Hmmm! Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Google Goes to Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Nov 25, 2009 The Internet Juggernaut, pursuing its quest to make all the world's information universally available, has gone to the national museum in Baghdad, which was notoriously looted following the U.S. invasion of Iraq. CEO Eric Schmidt made the trek to announce that Google has photographed thousands of the just-reopened museum's treasures. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )