Interesting Anecdote of the Day

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Bill Petti

From Robert Hof’s review of Ken Auletta’s new book, Googled: The End of the World As We Know It Auletta describes how [Larry] Page couldn’t stop staring at his handheld device during a meeting between the founders and mogul Barry Diller. Diller told him to choose between it and their conversation. “I’ll do this,” Page [...]

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Crowdsourcing Earnings Call Questions

Posted on October 17, 2009 by Bill Petti

So it appears that Google has incorporated a bit of crowdsourcing into their earnings calls: Rather than take questions from analysts directly, Google has asked Wall Street’s finest to submit their questions through a service called Google Moderator, and is only responding to questions that receive the most votes from other analysts. The selected questions [...]

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Apple and Google agreed not to poach talent?

Posted on August 9, 2009 by Bill Petti

TechCrunch has learned from sources that during Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s tenure on Apple’s board the two firms had an unwritten agreement not to poach talent from each other. To be clear, this unwritten agreement was that Google would not go after Apple employees, and vice versa. However, employees of both companies were free to [...]

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