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...Donelan revealed earlier this year that the government was talking to Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative of Schmidt and his wife Wendy, about a donation of up to $20mn....
...Based on new research by Kenneth Rogoff, Barbara Rossi and Paul Schmelzing, it’s a powerful argument for technology and modernity making money cheaper....
...The display is quirky and dense, with a seated figure in the library, for instance, turning out to be a sculpture by Duane Hansen....
...Blade’s investors include media magnates David Zaslav of Discovery, Barry Diller of IAC, and Kenneth Lerer of BuzzFeed, as well as former Google chairman Eric Schmidt and aircraft manufacturer Airbus....
...The group, which included Mr Mondre, Mike Bingle and Kenneth Hao, threatened to quit if they were not promoted to managing partners, according to people with knowledge of the matter....
...The change of direction began after Mette Frederiksen replaced former prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt as leader and started taking the party in a more social-conservative direction....
...Google and Schmidt are donors to New America, and Schmidt himself was chairman of the think tank until last year....
...Those coming from further afield included José Manuel Barroso, head of the European Commission; Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google; and Peter Sutherland, chairman of Goldman Sachs International....
...In the end, the prize went to the veteran German photographer Michael Schmidt....
...Kenneth Bae was detained last November in North Korea’s Rason special economic zone, having entered the country from China as part of a small tourist group....
...Mr Richardson described the trip as productive, saying that he had lobbied for fair treatment for Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American man detained in November and accused by Pyongyang of an unspecified crime...
...She entered politics in 1991, running the city council campaign of Thomas Duane, one of the city’s first openly gay council members, and in 1999 won Mr Duane’s seat for herself after he was elected to the...
...His tough sentence comes in spite of pleas for fair treatment made by US politician Bill Richardson, who visited Pyongyang in January with Google chairman Eric Schmidt....
...But Mr Richardson has dismissed criticism of what he describes as a “humanitarian mission”, which he said was aimed at securing the release of Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American arrested in November while leading...
...www.lfa2012.org … Chrystina Schmidt, creative director of Skandium ‘Rock on Top of Another Rock’, London, until March 2014 This outdoor sculpture in Kensington Gardens is by Swiss artists Peter Fischli...
...Mr Obama also convened a meeting this month with technology chief executives, including Steve Jobs of Apple, Google’s Eric Schmidt, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook....
...Mr Schmidt and Mr Zuckerberg were among 75 of the conference’s 300 guests invited to a candle-lit dinner at host Herbert Allen’s cabin....
...Asked when he expected China to give its answer, Mr Schmidt said: “You would have to ask the Chinese government.”...
...News Corp has been in talks with Mr Schmidt about forming pay models for news, he added....
...As Kenneth Lieberthal at the Brookings Institution put it, this was “the sort of clumsy tactic that Beijing is usually far too smart to employ”....
...Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, told the Financial Times in July that YouTube was on track to report its first profit, but did not specify a timeframe....
...The panelled walls and louvred doors of Hildegard Bechtler’s set, seen in the shadows of Duane Schuler’s lighting, stylishly evoke the opera’s time (between the wars) and place, as do the men’s white dinner...
...But Eric Schmidt, chief executive, has revealed a soft spot for the newspaper industry, telling Fortune magazine this month it would be a “real tragedy” if the industry failed....
...Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, said Mr Armstrong was a “critical force in Google’s advertiser-facing operations,” and called AOL “one of Google’s longest standing partners”....
...When John Thompson, one of the technology industry’s top headhunters, singled out a veteran engineer named Eric Schmidt to run Google, it turned out to be one of the great Silicon Valley hires....
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