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,…

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’.

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, warned on Wednesday that government plans to block access to illicit filesharing websites could set a “disastrous precedent” for freedom of speech.

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,”…

Long-time Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt is stepping down. Effective April 4, co-founder Larry Page will take over as Google’s CEO, while Schmidt will take on the role of executive chairman, the company just announced. Google says it’s making the changes to “streamline decision making and create clearer lines…

In a big-picture keynote at Berlin’s IFA home electronics event, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt said Google’s new guiding principle is in serving users automatic search results, all the time, super-quick…

By Charles Arthur: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) chief executive Eric Schmidt says that the experience of reading news will move to digital devices quite rapidly – and that it will involve personalised and local news which will be alert to your interests and existing knowledge. Speaking at the Activate 2010 summit…

*Google* CEO Eric Schmidt is leaving the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) board after all, following months of brushing aside suggestions that increasing competition in the same areas created a conflict of interest. In a statement released before the market opened, Apple CEO Steve Jobs explained: “Unfortunately, as Google (NSDQ: GOOG) enters…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt may have turned down President Obama’s offer to become America’s chief technology officer but, in the UK, Conservative leader David Cameron has managed to recruit Schmidt (pictured here on a blue background) to a new “economic recovery committee”. The committee will meet fortnightly to…