Eric Schmidt

Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt arrived in Pyongyang, North Korea today.  He’s in the country as part of a private delegation led by Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico. “This is a private humanitarian visit,” Richardson told reporters in Pyongyang. “We’re here as individual American citizens looking at the humanitarian situation..” Schmidt, however, hasn’t explicitly […]

A Senate panel will open an  antitrust  inquiry into the business  practices  of Google today. The search giant’s executive  chairman Eric Schmidt is expected to testify. Federal authorities are accusing the company of playing favorites with its own businesses in search results. Microsoft endured a similar antitrust case, which took nearly a year to resolve. Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson professor of […]

Later today 55-year-old Eric Schmidt leaves his post as Google CEO,  to be replaced by the company’s 38 year old co-founder Larry Page.  The last time Larry Page lead the company was in 2001. Then, Google had about 200 employees. Today, the monolithic company employs over 24,000. Is Page ready for his old role, and more importantly, […]

What, exactly, is information? Is it an idea? The documentation of an idea? James Gleick explores these questions in his new book “The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood.” He joins us from Tampa, Florida.