Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. I'm not sure if Euripides, the Greek playwright, had Google's management team in mind when he wrote that, but it sure fits. Google, despite the occasional lost deal, billion-dollar lawsuit, and PR black eye, continues to succeed spectacularly as a business. "Somehow…
Google has summarily disinvited Dan Frommer, editor at New York-based tech blog Silicon Alley Insider, from its October 3 press soiree. The excuse? A Google spokesperson told him that "this event is very much consumer-focused and based on your coverage, the content does not seem aligned with your topic area." As if…
Make room for Marcy Simon! Google is expanding its offices in West Chelsea, taking space in the Chelsea Market building across the street from its current digs. [New York Observer]
A Google spokesperson obliquely concedes, in a follow-up item on Valleywag's scoop, that Marcy Simon, CEO Eric Schmidt's gal pal, is working as a consultant at the company. [New York Post]
Marcy Simon, Valleywag has learned, doesn't just have a coveted desk and a phone line in Google's cramped New York offices. She also has a seemingly hot assignment: PR for the yet-to-be-launched Googlephone. All this, simply for serving as married Google CEO Eric Schmidt's piece on the side? Yes, that's right:…
When Larry Page and Sergey Brin hired Eric Schmidt as Google's CEO because, among other reasons, he'd been to Burning Man, they must have known they were getting a boss with alternative values. But did they know that their newly hired grownup would prove to be Google's adulterer supervision? Schmidt is famous for…
Google CEO Eric Schmidt's girlfriend Marcy Simon, formerly head of WCTV, has taken a job with Ogilvy Public Relations. She'll be coming in as a "senior advisor," she's "very excited," et cetera. Apparently no (publicly released) truth that Simon and Schmidt ever got engaged, though New York magazine is known to be…
