US President-elect Barack Obama has appointed a 17-member high-level team of advisers including billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Google chief executive Eric Schmidt to guide him in channelising the economy, a media report says.
Schmidt had a closed-door meeting with four start-ups in Bangalore.
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, who recently stepped down as the search giant's chief executive officer, admitted at the All Things Digital conference that the Internet giant's inability to cash in on the social networking wave was his fault.
A Google search of 'India Internet censorship' generates thousands of hits documenting episodes in recent years of government authorities demanding the closure of websites.
The former Google chief executive officer said he witnessed the creative potential of India's people all around him in Silicon Valley where India-born entrepreneurs account for 40 per cent of start-ups.
Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt predicts that there will be more than a billion smartphones in use featuring its Android software within the next six to nine months.
Some interesting and whacky gadgets showcased at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt made a pitch for protecting privacy as the Internet becomes more widely accessible in India.
India will add a significant part of the next 5 billion Internet users, with maths suggesting that it is the country to look out for, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said.
Says cheap smartphone future almost here; brushes aside privacy concerns.
Google will also use artificial intelligence to provide customers with more solutions.
Schmidt who has been the CEO for a decade will continue on as executive chairman.
A latest filing by the company to the US regulator Securities and Exchange Commission stated, "Eric, Larry and Sergey have voluntarily elected to receive only nominal cash compensation. Their primary compensation continues to come from returns on their ownership stakes in Google." Consequently, the company's top executives -- Schmidt, Page and Brin -- do not receive any salary or plan-based bonus other than one dollar per year, proxy statement filed by Google stated.
The battle between Microsoft and Google in the tablet and mobile space is heating up.
The US president-elect met Silicon Valley's most powerful executives -- CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Elon Musk from Tesla, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt of Alphabet -- parent company of Google among others.
The 20 contenders for the title, short-listed by the BusinessWeek magazine, also included Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs, media baron Rupert Murdoch and Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
America will have to shell out $4.4 trillion if it needs clean energy, according to a plan drawn by Google Inc that calls for a big push in wind, solar and geothermal power to replace fossil fuels.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday gifted famous Indian tea to the captains of 11 large American corporations.
Popular Internet search engine Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt and founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were offered a raise in their salaries, which they declined to accept saying they would continue taking the token amount of $1 annually.
High-level intelligence collection will no longer be the preserve of government agencies alone, says Pranjal Sharma.
Find out what's in store this year for everyone from Steve Jobs to Oprah.
World's largest asset manager Blackrock will host a global investors meet in India next year, CEO Laurence Flik conveyed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
'Congratulations @sundarpichai. My best wishes for the new role at @google, Modi had tweeted.
With his elevation as the CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, in whom co-founder of the microblogging giant Jack Dorsey has "bone-deep" trust, joins the growing power club of Indian-origin executives helming US-based global multinationals. Twitter's outgoing CEO Dorsey announced on Monday that 37-year old Agrawal, an Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Stanford University alumnus, will be the company's new chief executive as he stepped down after 16 years at the company that he co-founded and helmed. A report in The New York Times said Agrawal will receive an annual salary of $1 million, in addition to bonuses, restricted stock units and performance-based stock units.
US-based global technology giant IBM expressed keen interest in participating in India's newly-launched initiatives like Smart Cities and Digital India.
Asteroid 2011 UW-158, an asteroid with 90 million tons of platinum core worth over five trillion dollars, hurtled past earth early Monday morning.
IT firms in the US are struggling to find quality and right number of professionals
Defence major Boeing on Monday proposed greater business engagement with India, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised the US companies to provide friendlier business environment in the country.
Google is learning the ABCs of conglomerate life.
The trial was closely watched by software developers, who feared an Oracle victory could spur more software copyright lawsuits.
The buzz that Google Inc may move back to the Chinese mainland became louder this week.
With 1.35 billion users of its Internet social network, Facebook Inc would rank as the world's second-most populous nation if it were a country.
German Chancellor Angel Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, Pakistan Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Switzerland President Simonetta Sommaruga would be participating in the 45th edition of the meet.
Employees accused them of limiting competition by colluding not to poach each other's talent.
For a time it looked as if Apple would never relinquish the top spot in terms of market value.
The ability to make out fake news from real could save the coming generations a huge amount of conflict and heartburn, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates with an estimated fortune of $78 billion heads the list
Arora started off his career at Wipro.
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