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Interview: Google News’ Josh Cohen: Can The Aggregator Ever Win Over Publishers?

Sep 12, 2009 No Comments

There’s no shortage of publishers who are eager to criticize Google (NSDQ: GOOG)—and specifically Google News. They accuse the company alternatively of building a business on the back of their content and not giving their original content sufficient visibility in search results. Despite high-profile efforts to reach out to publishers, including a keynote address by [...]

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Steve Jobs on Amazon and Ice Cream

Sep 12, 2009 No Comments

Apple’s chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, discussed his health and Apple’s new product line in an interview Wednesday with David Pogue, the personal technology columnist for The New York Times. Context has been added to the original quotes posted here… Tweet This Post

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Creating the Chinese Google

Sep 10, 2009 No Comments

Back in 2002, Chinese billionaire Li Ka-shing, Asia’s most successful entrepreneur, founded the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in Beijing to turn out a new kind of Chinese global leader. Cheung Kong has since become the country’s top business school, with graduates like Alibaba chairman Jack Ma and CNOOC president Fu Chengyu. Here the [...]

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Interview: Google China’s Kai-Fu Lee Debuts Innovation Works

Sep 10, 2009 No Comments

Kai-Fu Lee became famous in 2005 when the engineering whiz left Microsoft, where he had created Microsoft Research Asia, to head search giant Google’s operation in China. Microsoft sued, charging that he violated a noncompete agreement, but eventually settled. This time, as Lee leaves Google, he’s sure to avoid a lawsuit, because he’s starting his [...]

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt On The Future Of Search: “Connect It Straight To Your Brain”

Sep 04, 2009 No Comments

This is Part 2 of my series of posts summarizing a fascinating recent hour-long one on one interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Early in the interview I asked Schmidt about the future of search. I brought up the “search is 90% done” misunderstanding from last summer. Said Google Vice President Marissa Mayer at the [...]

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt Interview: His Thoughts On Search, Books, News, Mobile, Competition And More

Aug 31, 2009 No Comments

A week ago I had a chance to sit down for a hour-long one on one interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. There were no rules, and the whole interview was on the record. Part of the interview was on video as well.There’s so much material that we’ve broken the interview notes up into a [...]

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