now rule the world in their own respects talking about not mark zuckerberg of facebook google's eric schmidt jeff bezos of amazon microsoft is going to be represented and rupert murdoch for some reason will also be in attendance but is there any chance of the two we're going to see eye to eye or is this the beginning of an internet versus government war on a global scale to me to discuss this is aaron schwartz executive director of the man progress dot org eric thanks so much for joining us tonight. for starters does this tell you really how big these tech giants have become in this world that now they're meeting with world leaders of the eight largest industrialized nations i mean that's that's pretty incredible right there now at the highest political level that you can possibly achieve you think of deserved. oh i think it's definitely deserved i mean we've seen our economy now fundamentally runs around these big companies they're some of the biggest companies in the stock market in the industry and so it's just natural that of course the way our companies met with political leaders ahold

that next guest is google's executive chairman eric schmidt. ith him for a special we are working on about innovati innovation. take out those tablets and mark your electronic calenders. that special lal awill air on j. schmidt has more than a bit of a bias with google's products but insight into the future of technology are nonetheless absolutely fascinating. you have apple coming out with this extremely elegant ipad that everyone is in love with. but it requires that you follow apple's rules. all the restrictions that are placed. no flash, most prominent. now you have android providing a kind of open platform. obviously -- as the head of google android will win. but tell me something about this contest. >> it is a classic contest in high-tech. and in that contest, you have a very well-run, very focused closed competitor when builds a great product that does something that's very useful. that will be apple. have you another competitor who makes all the technology available to everybody else and using various creativity and very partnerships and

on the guest list, eric schmidt.he french president acknowledges a huge gap incomprehension between the techies and the policy makers. >> the universe that you represent is not a parallel one, free of the rule of law, free of morals. >> present sarkozy is known for his tough line on internet piracy. the kind of regulation that creates great anxiety within the industry. >> why are you here? >> i think it is a good idea to be present when movement is afoot to take away some of the values that you cherish. >> both sides agree they need to encourage more growth. but this agreement is on how much -- the disagreement is on how much control there should be. the other view is that they would like to regulate the industry, control it. where is the balance? privacy is a hot topic in the u.k. on a moment. tens of thousands of people on twitter -- on the other hand, put her plight is seismic role in the successful uprising in to amnesiac and -- tunisia and egypt. >> people should be held responsible for what they publish. >> isn

on the guest list, google's eric schmidt. one of the titans of the world wide web.sident sarkozy acknowledges a huge gap of incomprehension between the attack and the college -- a policy makers. the internet can be allowed to grow at untethered. >> the universe that you represent is not a parallel one. free of the rule of law, float -- free of morals, the fundamental principles which govern social and democratic countries. >> president sarkozy is known for its tough line on interest parsee -- piracy. the kind of regulation that creates great anxiety within the industry. >> why are you here? >> is a good idea to be present when movement is afoot to to take away some of the values that he chairs. >> both sides agreed that they need to encourage more growth. the disagreement is on how much control there should be. the other view adopted by an increasing number of european countries you would like to regulate the industry. where is the balance? privacy is a hot topic in the uk at the moment. tens of thousands of people on twitter -- on the other hand, twitter played a s

under the aggressive new leadership of chief executive larry page who replaced eric schmidt back in april. >> tom: another step back for former harvard classmates mark zuckerberg. a federal appeals court today refused to rehear his decision against the brothers who sued zuckerberg saying the idea for facebook was there and zuckerberg stole it a settlement was reached back if 2008 but the brothers want more money. a federal court and an appellate court rather have already rejected that claim. the only avenue for appeal now is the u.s. supreme court can. >> susie: tom, as you reported a short while ago the stock markets were down today. and if you look at the three major stock indexes, they are down about 2% for the month of may. so maybe that wall street saying, sell in may and go away, might be a good idea. >> tom: well, certainly so far this month it has held true. no doubt about it, susie. as we get off to a week start this week. let's go ahead and roll with tonight's market focus. >> tom: stocks had a negative bias throughout the day, thanks to the european debt news and weak manufactu

now larry page, the former and no current ceo after eric schmidt in essence around the company for ten years has more atonmy than eric ever had. he's running the company like to the point of a single vision than anyone has before. and so he's going to pursue things like cloud computing and moon shots while trying to strengthen the core things and getting into social. >> maybe it's a bit of a bad comparison, what's happening with cisco, they became overly ambitious and maybe tried to overstep what they could did and suffered the consequences. i wonder if google, as smart as they are, runs the same rick. i know the last quarter, announced they were hiring to the point it hurt their profit margin. >> in order to avoid the innovator's dilemma, that's a very, very big trap, when you have the company that dominates in one paradigm gets wiped out in the next, they have to look at new areas. they don't want to be like microsoft as we all perceive it now, living off its cash cows, they want to be ahead of the next game. and the thing to look for is something, a product that maybe we're not even

google's eric schmidt also attended. before the doors closed on the private meeting, german chancellor angela merkel asked zuckerberg if he'd seen the movie "the social network." he replied he didn't like it, prompting a round of laughter. president barack obama also met privately today with russia's president and the prime minister of japan. >>> topping our health watch tonight, caffeine and fertility. researchers today are reporting that too much coffee or caffeinated soda might impair fertility. it does apparently in mice. researchers found caffeine reduced the activity of the muss lds in the fallopian tubes which of course carry the igz from the ovaries to the womb. experts say the amount of caffeine given to the mice, by the way, was the human equivalent of just about two cups of coffee a today. >>> let's bring in our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. yesterday we had tornadoes. anything as crazy as what we saw yesterday? >> no, not at all. the radar scans around, it is dry here in this over 300-mile radius right no

we've seen a lot of names floated, ron kirk, even former google ceo eric schmidt, the fcc chairman,çóÑvós genachowso you have any thoughts on whether someone from the private sector is better? >> guest: the better choice would be someone from the private sector. i think the white house gets this. perhaps a ceo that has run a multi-national company that knows the in thes and outs of how tough it is to generate revenue, to make a profit, to make personnel decisions. that would be a positive choice, a

fashioned way, to debate the big issues at the highest level, and on the guest list, google's eric schmidt wikipedia's jimmy wales, two of the titans of the worldwide web. the french president nicolaus sarcozy acknowledges a huge gap of income prehension between the techies and the policy makers, but that doesn't mean that the internet can be allowed to grow unfettered. >> the universe that you represent is not a parallel one, free of the rule of law, free of morals, and born generally of the fundamental principles that govern social life in democratic countries. >> president sarcozy is known for his tough line on internet privacy and proposing to put taxes on global internet companies, the kind of regulation that creates great anxiety within the industry. >> why are you here? >> well, i think, you know, it's a good idea to be present when someone wants to take away some of the values you cherish. >> both sides agree they need to encourage more growth. the disagreement is on how much control there should be, but the one view inspired by the likes of google and facebook who would like to se

interesting that sarkozy is treating the conference slightly differently this year with inviting eric schmidt from google and from facebook to come and address the world leaders it shows you that there's room for sort of certain degrees of innovation here but ultimately because principals of what the g eight will deal with remain the same and i think we should expect some major announcements to come from it so badly be in our so do you see the g eight nations involved in a nose military action immediately saying is there a strategy there after weeks of stalemate. well i think it's very important that the mission drift that's occurred in libya the g eight has used the time to sort of bring back together the international partners to actually bear in mind ok the chinese and the russians were necessarily in favor of the intervention but they didn't veto it or vote against it at the u.n. so in a sense we've got a time to renew the mandate that we've very clear as to whether we're talking about regime change or whether they need to go back to the u.n. to get a mandate for that and there's been a s

leed create this link between manning and assigns and they have people like eric schmidt who is just speculating and suggesting that there is this link well one of the things that i found the most interesting is that they really go after bradley manning when they claim to tell his story but they it sounds it seems incriminating to me i'm wondering if you agree with me here because they tell you the story of this troubled young man like i said who couldn't hold a job who was battling against don't ask don't tell and policies that he didn't like and you know only maybe once or twice did we hear the word allegedly only david howell is towards the end of this entire documentary remember minded everybody of the fact that he has now been convicted of anything yet that's exactly correct and you know greg mitchell at the nation pointed this out in his review and you know i noted this as well which is the fact that you don't really get to see that there might have been some sort of moral values at play when bradley manning decided to allegedly leak the material to wiki leaks there's no mentio

said we could take got to -- goats, and they said, we want a grownup to come in, and this is when eric schmidt comes into the company, and he, for many years, i guess ten, was the quote -- unquote grownup in the company. how did they pick eric? >> guest: well, as you mentioned, the venture capitalists put $25 million into google in 1999, did it with the expectation that these two young men from stanford, with no experience in managing a giant company, would get what's called in the valley adult supervision, and hire an experienced manager to be the ceo. >> host: that's because you dress like a cow. >> guest: there's some interesting april fool's videos of eric. he mad fun, too. a few months after they got the money, they called john and said we changed our mind. we think we can run this company ourselves. and john -- his first instinct was to say, i'm out of her. but he held back and said, wait a minute. just go and talk to a number of ceos. some of the companies in the valley that you respect. and i'll set up tours. they went on what i call the magical mystery tour of the best ceos, which wer

most beautiful, brand new college campus up in northern california, and it's just -- the guy -- eric schmidt just want people to work and never, ever leave. so we have everything here." there was like food everywhere. free food everywhere. bikes. you can ride bikes. you could play beach volleyball. they have a band every single afternoon come and play. and -- i think this would be the most awesome place -- >> jimmy: i love this. >> if i worked there, i would be like -- they would be like, "um, we're noticing that you're only playing beach volleyball." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: "you're not doing your job at all." >> i said that. "do you ever have anyone who's just like going for a swim?" he's like, "no, we have very elaborate ways of measuring people's productivity." i was like, "oh. google." >> jimmy: serious. >> google. >> jimmy: mm google, yes. [ laughter ] >> it's pretty rad. >> jimmy: "30 rock," season finale. >> yeah. >> jimmy: tonight. >> it was tonight. >> jimmy: yeah. >> how did it go? >> jimmy: -- enjoy it. [ laughter ] we don't know. hope everyone enjoyed it. 100 shows. >> 100 shows.

. >> rose: so what happened to eric schmidt who was on the board of apple. >> there was a period where eric had to excuse himself from apple board meetings when they discussed the phone. because it was clear that google was developing a phone system of its own. what steve jobs didn't know, apparently, was how close it was to his phone. i managed to track down the confusion there in talking to the android team because i learned there were two versions of the android they were working on. one was called sooner, which was going to be the first one. sort of a basic phone with search and things like that and the other was called the dream. and that was more like the iphone. now as soon as the iphone came out google realized it would make no sense to come out with a phone that was obsolete even before they released it. >> rose: so they went to the dream? >> they went straight to the dream which for steve jobs was a nightmare. >> rose: so today is there a sense that android will surpass-- because its sales are rising faster than the iphone. >> right. it's not a precise comparison. so android

trade representative ron kirk and former google ceo eric schmidt and julius genachowski. do you have any thoughts on any of the candidates are the type of person you think someone from the private sector is better or someone experience? >> guest: i think the white house gets this and that would hopefully be a selection. perhaps a ceo that has run multinational companies that knows the ins and outs of how tough it is to generate revenue, to make a profit, to make personnel decisions. that would be a positive choice, a ceo from one of the major mencken companies. >> host: finally peter cleveland if you could describe the importance of china and india in the tech world. >> guest: they are crucial. they are the breadbasket for us going forward. our revenues are churning forward at a 13, 14, 15% rate in china in particular. we have invested there. it is a gigantic marketplace. there are problems there in terms of our ability to protect our ip, to deter the compulsory certifications, licensing the chinese require, but take no mistake, it is an incredible marketplace and we need

he had mark zum ckerburg from facebook and eric schmidt from google. house staff noticed right behind where president obama was sitting at this big table there were a couple of big large fax machines, like circa 1988 or something. so the white house staff had them moved out because they thought the photo of president obama talking about the internet with mark zuckerburg and others with some old dated fax machines probably would have been lamb popped by jon stewart and others. another thing, angela merkel was going on and on about how apparently she loved the social network, the movie. and she asked president sarkozy. he seemed to agree and she apparently didn't realize that not the entire movie was something that mark zuckerburg really enjoyed. not the entire story about some of his old roommates, et cetera, his classmates at harvard. she asked zuckerburg whether he enjoyed it. he said i didn't really enjoy it actually. then she said something like maybe you'll enjoy the next one. i didn't know there was a sequel involved. >> i'm just curious because y