All entries tagged: Google Checkout
Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions the news consumer of the future
For all the bluster about Google as an enemy of the news industry, you might be surprised to learn that Eric Schmidt, the company’s CEO, is kind of a triumphalist for mainstream media, big newspapers, and print.
He took questions from reporters this afternoon at Google’s offices in Cambridge, and I asked him, among other [...]
Google developing a micropayment platform and pitching newspapers: “‘Open’ need not mean free”
Google is developing a micropayment platform that will be “available to both Google and non-Google properties within the next year,” according to a document the company submitted to the Newspaper Association of America. The system, an extension of Google Checkout, would be a new and unexpected option for the news industry as it considers how [...]
