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French President Nicolas Sarkozy opened the first ever 'E-G8 Forum' in Paris this week, calling for better regulation of the Internet. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt and News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch are among those in attendance at the two-day event.Sarkozy, who arranged the summit aimed at parlaying the Internet's growing economic influence into a cohesive message for global leaders, praised the...

WASHINGTON, March 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog warned President Obama in a letter today about the dire consequences for consumers worldwide of appointing Google CEO Eric Schmidt Commerce Secretary. "Mr. Schmidt's views on privacy, antitrust issues, workers rights and commercial growth are inimical to the ethical customs, social mores and rules of law the American people have demanded of their leaders," Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court and Privacy Project...

PHOENIX, March 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CX Inc. (which is an iteration of "cloud experience"), a consumer-focused cloud computing company backed by TomorrowVentures (tomorrowvc.com) the personal investment vehicle of Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, and Hanna Capital (www.hannacapitalllc.com), officially announced its entrance into the Cloud Space. In generic terms, 'The Cloud' refers to the Internet as a whole. In a Cloud Service environment, data is stored and accessed through off-site data...

Larry Page, co-founder of Google Inc., is taking a more visible and stronger turn at the helm of the internet giant in a move to keep ahead of upstart players such as Facebook and Twitter. The Silicon Valley company isn't waiting for the chief executive chair to be vacated in April by Eric Schmidt. Page has hit the ground running by tapping into the energy of other quick-thinking and fast-acting entrepreneurs bought with Google's sizable war chest."Any engagement that Google can have with the...

Google's Chief Executive Eric Schmidt announced Friday that Brazil is on its way to becoming the company's sixth largest global market, as it opens new offices in the Latin American country.The top dog in Internet search saw its revenue in the region surge in 2010 riding the waves of economic growth, with countries showing growth of 50-100 percent last year."That means you're almost doubling (revenue) every year," Schmidt told Reuters at its company office in Buenos Aires. "That's a lot due...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog told the Senate Judiciary Committee that it is "deeply distressed to learn that President Obama is meeting with Google CEO Eric Schmidt today behind closed doors as the Justice Department is poised to render its decision on Google's acquisition of ITA, which has caused deep concern within in the travel industry about Google's ability to drive out competitors in the online airline booking industry." The President is...

Google's outgoing chief executive officer (CEO), Eric Schmidt, has been in talks with a CNN producer about possibly hosting a television show, according to a report by the New York Post on Monday. Schmidt, 55, who is stepping down as CEO of Google in April, has been discussing business with Liza McGuirk, executive producer of CNN's "Parker Spitzer," about developing a show featuring himself as host, the Post said. "Eric wants to be a talk-show host," the Post quoted an unnamed source as...

Outgoing Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has received an equity award of $100 million, Bloomberg first reported over the weekend.A spokesperson told Reuters on Sunday that "the award, which will include stock units and options will vest over four years and is Schmidt's first such award since joining the company in 2001."According to CNET's Edward Moyer, the Wall Street Journal, "citing compensation specialists and data"¦ called the award 'highly unusual' for a sitting CEO,...

Calls For Hearings And CEO Schmidt To Testify Under Oath SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog today sent Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) a 32-page report detailing how Google has inappropriately benefited from its close ties to the Obama Administration, including how NASA's Moffett Airfield, near Google's world headquarters, has been turned into a taxpayer-subsidized private airport for Google executives used for corporate junkets. A growing fleet of...

What's really going on inside of Google? New York, NY (PRWEB) January 22, 2011 According to Jeff Christian, founder of executive search firm CTPartners, Eric Schmidt's impending move to Executive Chairman of Google is unusual. It's usually reversed in that an outside CEO is initially brought into a start-up to provide adult supervision to the young technology-savvy founder(s) who move up to Chairman or Vice-Chairman positions on the board. Christian who did the search for the CEO of...