Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) CEO Page Showing Sign of Recovery of His lost voice
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt yesterday said that the company’s CEO Larry Page, was absent from the company’s biggest public events for weeks, as he is recovering from an unspecified ailment that caused him to lose his voice and was in the office on Monday.
Schmidt explained that Page has remained out of the public eye ever since last month, when he was not seen at an annual shareholders’ meeting after losing his voice. His prolonged absence has raised questions about the health of the 39-year-old company’s co-founder and the mystery condition affecting his voice.
However, Schmidt did not went into details of what ailed Page, but said that the co-founder has been taking meetings at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Schmidt told reporters at the annual Allen & Co conference in Sun Valley yesterday.
Page, who apart from being CEO, is also one of the company’s largest shareholders, is expected to miss the company’s post-earnings conference call happening next week.
His absence comes around when investors are keen to hear about the company’s view in getting into hardware with the Nexus 7 tablet and their view on Amazon.com Inc’s Kindle Fire, and eventually Apple Inc’s iPad.
The7-inch tablet is made by Taiwan’s Asustek. The tablet is expected to help funnel mobile users to Google’s online trove of content, including YouTube. Online pre-sales on Google Play and few retailers’ websites such as Office Depot’s have started, with the first tablets expected to come next week. There was a huge demand in the first week.
Google generated $38 billion in revenue last year. But with consumers spending more time on social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter, and increasingly accessing the Web on smartphones instead of PCs, investors are trying to figure out how Google’s business will be affected.
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