Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick closed on March 11th of this year, and now less than a month later they are making plans to eliminate up to 25% of the workforce in the acquired company. In another development Google announced that is was selling DoubleClick’s Performics subsidiary stating that they do not want to be in the search engine marketing business.

Some good insight into Google’s cellphone plans this week from Kevin Maney at Portfolio and Saul Hansell at The New York Times.
Writing about a recent interview he had with Motorolo CEO Ed Zander, Maney pointed out that Zander and Google CEO Eric Schmidt once worked together at Sun Microsystems.
“Zander was never direct about it, but […]

Sources are telling Business Week that Apple is considering bidding for valuable wireless spectrum in the government auction early next year.
That’s the same auction in which Google has said it will likely participate.
Even more reason to suspect that the two tech powerhouses are in cahoots on a mobile platform project.

After reading much of the recent speculation about and analysis of Google’s possible gPhone plans, including excellent stuff by BusinessWeek and Silicon Alley Insider, only two conclusions are possible:
1) It’s all b.s.
2) Somehow, Google and Apple will be in cahoots.
Surely, Apple shareholders and Steve Jobs wouldn’t allow Google CEO Eric Schmidt to remain an Apple director if […]

Bill Gates still says he is stepping away from the operations of Microsoft next year, as planned. But his competitive fire hasn’t dimmed.
He didn’t miss an opportunity to gig Google in a recent interview with John Markoff of The New York Times.
“How many products, of all the Google products that have been introduced, how many […]

As the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt wants wireless phone buyers to have unlimited choice in the software they use and the carriers they choose. In other words, a completely open system.
“When Americans can use the software and handsets of their choice, over open and competitive networks, they win,” Schmidt wrote in a letter to […]

July 13, 2007 — Drinking with reporters often makes for interesting copy. And Google’s Eric Schmidt didn’t disappoint when he closed down a hotel bar with a few members of the media early today at the Allyn & Co. moguls meeting in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Schmidt took a shot at Viacom, which has filed a $1 […]