Comments on: Eric Schmidt Replaced by Founder Larry Page as Google CEO

By: GigaOM This Week: Silicon Valley Executive Shake-up: Tech News and Analysis «

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:01:27 +0000

[...] the CEO title while handing day-to-day duties to chief operating officer Tim Cook. Meanwhile, Eric Schmidt said he was giving up the Google CEO title and will assume the role of executive chairman while former CEO and founder Larry Page takes over. [...]

By: As CEO of Google, Larry Page Won’t Frown on Open Source | PHP World

As CEO of Google, Larry Page Won’t Frown on Open Source | PHP World — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:36:34 +0000

[...] including the news of Steve Jobs’ leave of absence from Apple, and, yesterday, the news that Google CEO Eric Schmidt will pass the reigns to co-founder Larry Page as he moves on to an executive chairman slot. There are some questions [...]

By: (Less Than) A Month In The Life of Tech: Tech News and Analysis «

(Less Than) A Month In The Life of Tech: Tech News and Analysis « — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:16:06 +0000

[...] Jobs is on medical hiatus and Eric Schmidt decided to pull a Andy Pettite. Damn! Those two companies – Apple and Google — sure are competitive. Two of the best [...]

By: Page Is Back as CEO, But Is That What Google Really Needs?: Tech News and Analysis «

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:07:19 +0000

[...] founder and CEO Steve Jobs, another technology giant dropped a bombshell: Google CEO Eric Schmidt said he is stepping down to become executive chairman of the company. Schmidt says he will focus primarily on government relations, while Larry Page is [...]

By: Page Is Back as CEO, But is That What Google Really Needs?: Tech News and Analysis «

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:23:44 +0000

[...] founder and CEO Steve Jobs, another technology giant dropped a bombshell: Google CEO Eric Schmidt said he is stepping down to become executive chairman of the company — where he will focus primarily on government relations — while Larry [...]

By: slim

slim — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:16:34 +0000

1 word: Novell

By: FrankM

FrankM — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:22:10 +0000

This is a good thing. He has been groomed for this for 10 years.

By: io

io — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:16:37 +0000

True on all points you mention – Buzz, Wave etc – but you may be wrong with android. Volume is what drives ad revenue. Volume is only just coming to Android. The money will be trickling in soon.
Angry birds make 1million dollars a week…a week, on ads through Android – so scale that up and you might get an idea of the type of figures google will make this year and next this stream alone.

By: Darwin

Darwin — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:05:43 +0000

Not at all surprising. Schmidt has been an incompetent CEO.
There have been a string of failed software projects that cost a lot of time and money. Google it.
Google is losing a lot of high value employees.
There has been plenty of bad press and lawsuits.
Android has not produced anywhere near the amount of ad revenue that was expected.