Google’s entire multi-billion dollar software utopia is designed to find the perfect search result. Back in 2005, before American and European Union government regulators painted Google as a monopoly, now-chairman Eric Schmidt was quite open about the search giant’s endgame.
In what is sure to lead to a customer scandal and heighten a U.S. Antitrust Probe, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staffers determined in an undisclosed report that Google, Inc. allegedly used an algorithm to manipulate search results to favor their own less relevant search over competitors. The alleged Google fraudulent practice only became public when FTC staffers inadvertently shared the document with the Wall Street Journal.
President Obama is hosting a cyber-security summit at Stanford University today, but three of the top tech companies in the United States won’t be represented there.
Former Secretary of State and Nobel laureate Henry Kissinger told an awards dinner in New York this week that Israel should not seek a permanent or comprehensive peace with the Palestinians until regional turmoil settles down, Algemeiner reports. Kissinger’s advice
While on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt explained that Google had pulled funding from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) — a conservative group — because of their stance on global warming. While on the show, a caller
The stunning August 8th rejection by federal court Judge Lucy Koh of a $400 million settlement of claims against Apple, Google, Adobe and Intel Corporations for conspiring to hold down employee wages sent shudders through corporations in Silicon Valley and across
Two dozen income inequality protesters took to the streets of San Francisco on Friday to hold demonstrations against Google lawyer Jack Halprin, as class-based tensions escalate between activists and wealthy Silicon Valley employees over what protesters deem unwelcome gentrification. Halprin,
It is no accident that the so-called “architect” of the Common Core standards is now president of the College Board. Barack Obama’s plan to “fundamentally transform” education into the latest social justice iteration has hit a road block, and David
Who hasn’t been stumped with a question, quickly banged in a Google search query, and received an answer in a split second? It’s a modern wonder. How did we ever live without it? Google’s official mission statement, “to organize the world’s information
President Barack Obama is meeting with top Silicon Valley CEOs Tuesday to discuss the Obamacare debacle and the impact that National Security Agency (NSA) scandals have had on high-tech companies. Among the list of attendees are top Obama campaign fundraisers
(AP) Google: Searches for child abuse sites blockedBy SYLVIA HUIAssociated PressLONDONGoogle and Microsoft have introduced software that makes it harder for users to search for child abuse material online, the companies said in a joint announcement Monday. Writing ahead of
Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt ripped into the NSA after reports surfaced that the NSA was spying on Google’s data center. “It’s really outrageous that the National Security Agency was looking between the Google data centers, if that’s true. The steps
The hand-in-hand nature of this White House and some of the nation’s biggest corporations is seen in yet another incident as Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign data team is now moving from team Obama to team Google. This week, Bloomberg reported
While the left is frequently up in arms about the about the Koch brother’s money funding political and campaign projects, there is no shortage of big leftist corporate and foundation money floating around hot political issues. Both the Joyce Foundation
President Obama plans to appoint Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist to the National Science Board, the news organization Politico reported Wednesday afternoon. The elevation of Vint Cerf, who has worked at the Internet behemoth since 2005, was announced Wednesday. His appointment
In a move The State Department has called “unhelpful.” Google chief Eric Schmidt and former Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson, visited a rare North Korean computer lab
Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Google CEO Eric Schmidt have embarked on what is described as a “private delegation” to North Korea. The problem is this private delegation seems to have a very public purpose, inasmuch as Richardson,
Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt wants a first-hand look at North Korea’s economy and social media during his private visit Monday to the communist nation, his delegation said, despite misgivings in Washington over the timing of the trip.
According to a report by the Washington Examiner, President Obama may be set to pay back one of his biggest sources of campaign donations by appointing the Chairman of the company to a top Cabinet position. Obama is said to
Last night’s episode of the Military Channel’s “Black OPS” program featured a rundown of Operation Neptune Spear, the mission that killed Osama bin Laden. This was a pretty straightforward account of the May 1st, 2011 mission by SEAL Team 6
Behold the New America Foundation (NAF), yet another Washington, D.C. entity laying claim to high-browed, high-minded non-partisanship. The New America Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next
Carly Fiorina, Jennifer Granholm, Paul Krugman, Eric Schmidt and David Walker sit on the “Miller Center” panel on ABC’s “This Week”.
Google executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and filmmaker James Cameron are among those bankrolling a venture to survey and eventually extract precious metals and rare minerals from asteroids that orbit near Earth, the company said on Tuesday.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and billionaire co-founder Larry Page have teamed up with “Avatar” director James Cameron and other investors to back an ambitious space exploration and natural resources venture, details of which will be
Powerful and forward-thinking players are coming together with the launch of the Planetary Resources company to begin work on what could potentially create a sort of “Gold Rush” in space, as man’s quest for knowledge and wealth continues to grow,
We recently wrote: Obama 2012 and Facebook: Your Privacy, Diminished In which we explained that when it comes to our personal data and information, the primary Privacy concern is – government. The government shouldn’t have any more of it than
While the rest of America turns away from the big government stimulus spending programs of President Obama, at least one corporate executive is turning toward him to embrace his failed policies. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt did the media circuit
More Breaking News: As you may have noticed, the sun rose again today. The Huge Government crowd always demands ever more regulations of and more taxes on those who do the hiring in the United States – the “evil corporations”
Sources have told the Chicago Tribune that Google’s Eric Schmidt was seen dining with Obama’s 2012 presidential campaign manager Jim Messina at Café Spiaggia in Chicago last week providing further evidence of Google incestuous relationship with the Administration. Democratic sources
Rhetorically, President Obama prides himself on bashing “greedy corporations.” Insurance companies, the health care industry and Wall Street have all been subjected to verbal abuse from the president. Despite his statements, the Obama Administration policy often rests on corporatism –
As the war against for-profit schools drags on, several organizations continue to cry wolf in the hopes of landing the final blow to the resilient colleges. One of the biggest players in recent battles has been the New American Foundation.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand the Obama Administration’s view of business — it publically treats corporations with distain while privately promoting crony capitalism helping their favorite corporations with bailouts and subsidies. GM, Chrysler, Citibank, Goldman Sachs and
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and film director James Cameron both had a long, on stage conversation at a private event in Silicon Valley.
Yesterday, the White House blog asked “as special interest billionaires continued to pour secret donations of millions of dollars each into front groups supporting Republicans, we asked the obvious question: “What do they expect in return?“” They added, “Congressional Republicans
On Monday, Google and Verizon–two of the nation’s biggest companies operating in the tech space–announced a compromise joint proposal on Internet regulation that has tech policy observers buzzing. The proposal, discussed during a conference call featuring Google CEO Eric Schmidt