Steve Bryant

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the company isn’t planning on using its $11B in liquid assets for any major acquisitions or mergers anytime soon, according to CNN. Speaking at a tech conference in SF, Schmidt also repeated his belief that advertising and video were going to be two big areas of growth. And Schmidt defended […]

Didn’t see this discussion until it hit Techmeme, but: Venture capitalist Simeon Simeonov says he has more info on the long-rumored Google Phone, including the following: The Google Phone is called Switch Google has 100 folks working on it Danger founder Andy Rubin is heading the team Google is using tech from two companies it […]

Although the blogosphere would have you believe Microsoft’s recent attack on Google’s copyright policy is a big deal, the truth is there’s not much there there. Quick and simple: 1) Microsoft has two competing book scanning programs (Live Search Academic and Live Search Books), and 2) Microsoft’s business plan is not based on economies of […]

Following Google’s 10-k SEC filing last week which reaffirmed the size of the company’s war chest ($11B in liquid assets and growing), Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference today and said Google would not be changing how it spends cash. “One of the problems in high-tech industries is […]

Google played host to the X Prize Foundation’s fundraiser this weekend, gaining $2 million for the space race organization. New York-based sadsack crooner Rufus Wainwright cried on the piano — could they have picked a less uplifting musician? — and comedian Robin Williams told a few jokes. Google, of course, has a replica of Burt […]

Google has posted an in-depth look at their click fraud detection scheme on their Inside AdWords blog, which says undetected click fraud constitutes only 0.02 percent of overall fraud in the AdSense network. And in defense of these numbers, Google plans to release a new tool that will allow AdSense publishers to block specific users […]

It’s a perennial matchup that never lives up to the hype. But lately, that hype is louder than ever. First, Google announced Google Apps Premier, which is aimed at business users. The new service launched with two big-name companies already signed on. Analyst firm Gartner, for one, predicts Google Apps Premier could be the first […]

An Ohio woman is suing Yahoo for $20 million for allegedly using a photograph of her when advertising Yahoo e-mail services, Google Watch has learned. According to a complaint filed in Ohio federal court, the woman, Shannon Stovall, learned of the alleged misuse of her likeness after she signed up for Yahoo e-mail. An image […]

Old issue, but possibly new news: Searching on Google for “Yahoo email privacy” returns, as the first result, a link for Gmail’s privacy policy. That’s silly. The user is obviously looking for Yahoo! email, not Gmail. Bad Google. A search on Yahoo for “Yahoo email privacy” returns Yahoo results first. A search on Yahoo for […]

Google and IBM are expected to announce a partnership today that will allow corporate users to access Google gadgets from IBM’s WebSphere Portal software. Google gadgets are mini-applications that work inside a Web page of with the Google homepage or Google Desktop. The partnership will allow Websphere users to customize existing gadgets — or, ostensibly, […]

Google is looking to hire a national director of ad sales for its fledgling television initiatives, according to AdAge. Google’s plan: buy up scatter inventory that’s not available in advance during the upfronts, and which changes value based on changing demand throughout the year. Efforts on the YouTube front, meanwhile, are proceeeding with an indie […]

Google is wrapping up a two-day sales meeting in DC today, where it hopes to convince federal contractors, engineers and the military that Google is ready to take on more government work. Google has been selling products to the U.S. government for about three years. One of those products is Google Earth, which the military […]