{"id":101441,"date":"2011-06-01T12:08:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T07:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=101441"},"modified":"2011-06-01T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T07:08:51","slug":"google-rebuffed-by-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/06\/01\/google-rebuffed-by-facebook.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Rebuffed by Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc. confessed it tried unsuccessfully to team up with Facebook, as the search giant adapts to a shifting technology landscape and strives to maintain growth, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/06\/01\/google-idUSN3111802320110601\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Reuters reports<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Google Executive Chairperson Eric Schmidt told a conference on Tuesday that social networking site Facebook had rebuffed its entreaties to do a deal, while acknowledging he had not pushed hard enough to address the rising threat posed by Facebook during his tenure as CEO.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three years ago I wrote memos talking about this general problem. I knew that I had to do something and I failed to do it,&#8221; Schmidt said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A CEO should take responsibility,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I screwed up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt, who ended his 10-year run as CEO in April and handed the reins to 38-year-old Google co-founder Larry Page, made the comments at the D9 conference organized by the blog AllThingsD.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc. confessed it tried unsuccessfully to team up with Facebook, as the search giant adapts to a shifting technology&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[27490,10912,10818],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}