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Google shook up its ruling triumvirate today, announcing that CEO Eric Schmidt would be taking the role of executive chairman, while co-founder Larry Page will become CEO. Sergey Brin, who has also shared power with the two others, will work on “strategic projects,” Google said. Schmidt, who was hired by the co-founders to be Google’s [...]

Back in 2001, Larry Page wasn’t ready to lead Google’s 200 employees. Ten years later, with 24,400 employees, Page takes control of a much more complex operation, and both still have much to prove. Ready or not, it’s Page’s company now, following news that former CEO Eric Schmidt would be moving up and out of [...]

In this Nov. 15, 2010 file photo, Google CEO Eric Schmidt speaks at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page is taking over as CEO in an unexpected shake-up that upstaged the Internet search leader’s fourth-quarter earnings Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. Page, 37, is reclaiming the top job from Schmidt, [...]

WASHINGTON–In a small brownstone on a quiet tree-lined street in the shadows of the Capitol building, four people are plotting against the most powerful company on the Internet. Tuesday is a busy day at the Washington office of Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group generally focused on health care and insurance companies but with a prominent [...]

Google executives like to say they celebrate their failures, reasoning that when something fails, at least they’ve learned something. Perhaps with Chrome OS, they’re learning how to set expectations. It’s looking pretty clear that Google is going to miss its fourth-quarter target for the launch of Chrome OS, a lightweight Web-based operating system that is [...]

SAN FRANCISCO–Google plans to support Android phones with near-field communications chips in the next version of Android, which CEO Eric Schmidt said today would arrive in the next few weeks. Schmidt, kicking off the Web 2.0 Summit at the Palace Hotel here in downtown San Francisco, held up an “unannounced product” that appeared to be [...]

Google’s 2010 acquisition-spending spree has so far involved 40 companies and a total of $1.6 billion, the company revealed today. It’s been a busy year for the men and women of Google’s mergers-and-acquisitions team, closing an average of 4.4 deals a month, according to Google’s quarterly report filed with the U.s. Securities and Exchange Commission [...]

SAN FRANCISCO–Google CEO Eric Schmidt illustrated very neatly today why people have polarized opinions of his company. Schmidt, a keynote speaker at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010, spent about 20 minutes outlining his vision of the future before taking questions from the audience here. None of it was particularly new to those who track Schmidt’s public statements [...]

Google is being somewhat circumspect about whether Android or Chrome will run on future tablet computers, with two top executives hinting recently at different possible directions. Analysts also disagree in their predictions. In recent days, Google’s director of mobile products, Hugo Barra, said Android 2.2, the latest version that is also known as Froyo, has [...]

After initially rejecting three AdWords ads submitted by a major critic of its policies, Google has now approved the ads following a complaint by the advertiser. Last week Consumer Watchdog–an intense and sometimes disingenuous Google critic–submitted three text ads to Google designed to promote the over-the-top video it created of Google CEO Eric Schmidt in [...]