What with self-driving cars and such, Eric Schmidt is not averse to some blue-sky thinking. But one new prediction may be a moonshot too far.

Ever wondered whether Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has plans to tack more revenue-generating services on to Android? If it does, one of them doesn’t look like it will be a licensing fee. Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google, yesterday reiterated to an audience that Google has no plans to charge for…

At Google’s Zeitgeist Americas conference, Larry Page spent a good amount of time on stage—maybe one of the longest appearances he has made since taking over as the CEO of the company earlier this year. But when it came to the Q&A, he invited former CEO (and still-chairman) Eric Schmidt,…

It was not going to be a good day for Google (NSDQ: GOOG). There is nothing positive about having your former CEO dragged before attention-seeking politicians while competitors crow that you’ve grown too big for your britches. The best the search giant could hope for was that Eric Schmidt did…

*Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt is appearing today before a committee of U.S. Senators who want to know if the company is engaged in anti-competitive behavior. The event is more about political theater than substance, but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will be in trouble if Schmidt flubs his lines. Here is…

There are three things the TV executive audience have come to expect from the annual MacTaggart lecture: the pantomime of an inter-industry dispute, an intellectual appreciation of the past year’s achievements and a warm glow of self-congratulation derived from being an industry that still matters, despite everything.

Delivering the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executive chairman Eric Schmidt sought to assure broadcasters: “Google seeks to be your partner, not your foe.” But he warned them: “Listen to the entrepreneurs, not the lawyers, if you want to revitalise your business.”

When Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt gives the MacTaggart lecture to an audience of television executives in Edinburgh on Friday, the first person from outside the broadcasting sector to do so, he will deliver a positive message: ‘Google (NSDQ: GOOG) needs you’.

*Google* Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will testify before lawmakers probing the company’s market power on Sept. 21, the search giant confirmed on Thursday. After initially declining to appear, the former CEO received a not-so-subtle subpoena threat from the committee and rethought his position. The hearing, which will focus on charges…

Wall Street analysts expect Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to deliver solid earnings results Thursday afternoon, but investors who have seen the company’s stock fall 10 percent this year will want more, particularly status reports on the company’s mobile, social, and local efforts. They’ll be keen to hear from co-founder Larry Page,…

Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt will testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee in September, a company spokesperson confirmed on Friday. It’s a reversal for Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which had previously declined to make Schmidt or CEO Larry Page available to the panel of lawmakers probing the search…

Last year at All Things Digital, an annual gathering of senior tech and media executives, Steve Jobs gave a camp in how to handle an on-stage interview while Mark Zuckerberg provided the reverse. Last night, Eric Schmidt, a very smart man who can come across as “too smart” at times,…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) shelved technology that would mesh mobile location with facial recognition because of fears it would be misused, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt told attendees at the opening session at All Things Digital. An ‘evil dictator’ could use that against you, Schmidt said.

Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, warned on Wednesday that government plans to block access to illicit filesharing websites could set a “disastrous precedent” for freedom of speech.

Gone are the days of the $1 annual salary for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Google plans to award him a proper salary now that he has turned over the reigns of the company to co-founder Larry Page, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

He may no longer run the show, but Google’s Eric Schmidt still appears to serve a valuable purpose to the company as executive chairman - he is talking in public with industries often suspicious of The Big G.

Google’s CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt today shed a little official light on its place as the loser when Nokia (NYSE: NOK) decided to choose Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) as its new smartphone operating system when it ditches Symbian: “We would have loved Nokia to choose Android and we certainly tried,”…

Eric Schmidt, who already announced last week his intention to sell more than $330 million in stock over the next year, is now receiving $100 million in Google (NSDQ: GOOG) stock options, which will vest over the next four years, according to an SEC filing. Not bad for a man…

The unexpected news that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt will step down does not seem to have concerned Wall Street. In a series of reports this morning, analysts said they expected that co-founder Larry Page would be just as effective—if not more so—than Schmidt in the CEO role. The…