It’s good to see that angry ex-employees aren’t just coming from Goldman Sachs.  A former Google employee who left the company to go work for Microsoft has blasted his former employer in a new blog post. James Whittaker slammed Google yesterday for stifling employee creativity and focusing too much on the bottom line. “My last [...]

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Yesterday marked a major victory in the battle against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), as the White House vowed not to support the two controversial measures. The House of Representatives bill SOPA and its Senate counterpart PIPA are meant to punish/block websites that make available free movies, music, [...]

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As it inches closer and closer to becoming a reality, NOW is the time to stop SOPA. As you’ve heard us mention before, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), A.K.A. the PROTECT IP Act, could potentially create an internet blacklist that operates at the DNS level in a misguided attempt to stop online piracy. It’s [...]

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The National Enquirer has started a troubling rumor today regarding the health of Steve Jobs, giving the Apple CEO just six weeks to live by their estimates. Photos of Jobs looking particularly skeletal while walking into the Stanford Cancer Center (the same California center that treated Patrick Swayze) appear in the tabloid’s most recent issue. [...]

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Google announced its fourth quarter earnings this afternoon, and at the same time, the company announced that co-founder Larry Page will be replacing Eric Schmidt as CEO of the company. Schmidt who had been brought in as CEO about ten years ago because investors in the company thought Google needed to have a more mature [...]

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Wow, is Google a buzzkill or what? Remember that uber-cool internal memo we showed you a couple of days ago from CEO Eric Schmidt saying that all employees were getting a $1,000 bonus and a 10 percent raise? Well, the search giant has gone and fired the employee who leaked it to the press. Ironically [...]

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Things are going well for Google – so well, in fact that the company has given all of its employees a $1,000 holiday bonus and a 10 percent raise for 2011. The raise will take effect on January 1. UPDATE: What a buzzkill.   Google has fired the employee that leaked the memo. Furthermore, the search [...]

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Google has taken the “unexplained phenomenon” campaign one step further today, with a crop circle-themed Google Doodle. Yes, today’s Google logo consists of the word “Google” spelled out in crop circles with a tractor completing the letter “L”. Last week, Google revealed a strange logo where the letter “o” in the logo was being beamed [...]

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently did an interview with Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch. This should really be an eye-opener, I thought.  We’ll really get some interesting insights from the TOP DOG over at the world’s number ONE internet search company. Then I read the following quote from Schmidt and I quickly realized that the [...]

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Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt has just stepped down from Apple’s Board of Directors, a role that many claimed created conflicts of interest as both Apple and Google compete with each other in several market sectors. Specifically, Google’s Android phone is in direct competition with Apple’s iPhone.  Also, the soon-to-be-released Chrome OS will make [...]

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Another day, another commencement address for Google’s top brass. Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, spoke at the University of Pennsylvania commencement on Monday and urged college grads to step away from the computer and make connections in real life.  Schmidt told around 6,000 graduates that they need to discover what’s most important to them by living [...]

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On Friday night, Charlie Rose interviewed Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The interview covers everything from Google’s origins and the dawn of its advertising business to how search will reinvent humanity in the coming years. When asked if Google is interested in acquiring Twitter, Schmdit replied: “We’re unlikely to buy anything in the short term partly [...]

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