Will Eric Schmidt Run Apple?

In light of what's happening at Apple with the upsetting situation of Steve Jobs taking another leave of absence from the company due to his health, I can't help but wonder at the same time why there is a sudden management overhaul over at Google.

 Change is the only thing that is constant in life.  This could become disruptive innovation at its best.

Your thoughts?

Posted by:  Laurel Delaney, The Global Small Business Blog

Watch Out World: Google Is Out To Help Small Businesses Go Global

Google has launched two new services to help small businesses go global:

Google Global Market Finder
Go Global with Google

And I love this statement:

There are 1.9 billion Internet users worldwide. Wouldn’t you like to add them as customers?

Illustration credit here.

Posted by:  Laurel Delaney for The Global Small Business Blog

Global Strategy: For the Time Being Avoid the U.S.A.

China's biggest search engine company, Baidu Inc., is more dominant than ever now due to Google's pullback (moved its search to Hong Kong due to censorship demands that were placed on Google by China government).

Baidu's 41-year-old founder and CEO Robin Li has to figure out how to grow the business amid investor concerns on just where the growth will come from since there will be an intentional avoidance of the U.S.A. market for now.

More than two-thirds of China's population is still not on the Internet so there is room for Baidu to squeeze out additional local growth over the next 5-10 years.

But other revenue streams will be critical for Baidu to maintain and sustain its position in the local and global marketplace.

Read the interesting Bosstalk interview conducted by Owen Fletcher (WSJ) with Robin Li (at Baidu's Beijing headquarter office) -- here.

Illustration credit (very striking -- scary -- how much it looks like Google): Baidu search engine service, China

Posted by: Laurel Delaney, The Global Small Business Blog