this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt susie: good evening, everyone. a big and surprising top management change at google tonight. eric schmidt is out as c.e.o., and google co-founder larry page takes over the top job, as of april 4. tom, schmidt will stay on at the company as executive chairman, and as he said on twitter, day- to-day adult supervision no longer needed. tom: susie, as you remember, when schmidt was brought in ten years ago, he said the young co- founders page and sergey brin- - needed adult supervision. they ve certainly grown up, given the spectacular earnings google reported after the bell this afternoon. the internet giant earned $8.75 per share, 66 cents higher than estimates. revenues also came in better than expected, jumping almost 30% percent to $6.4 billion. google stock was up over 2.5% in after-hours trading. susie: so, what do all these changes
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt susie: good evening, everyone. a big and surprising top management change at google tonight. eric schmidt is out as c.e.o., and google co-founder larry page takes over the top job, as of april 4. tom, schmidt will stay on at the company as executive chairman, and as he said on twitter, day- to-day adult supervision no longer needed. tom: susie, as you remember, when schmidt was brought in ten years ago, he said the young co- founders page and sergey brin- - needed adult supervision. they ve certainly grown up, given the spectacular earnings google reported after the bell this afternoon. the internet giant earned $8.75 per share, 66 cents higher than estimates. revenues also came in better than expected, jumping almost 30% percent to $6.4 billion. google stock was up over 2.5% in after-hours trading. susie: so, what do all these changes
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt susie: good evening, everyone. a big and surprising top management change at google tonight. eric schmidt is out as c.e.o., and google co-founder larry page takes over the top job, as of april 4. tom, schmidt will stay on at the company as executive chairman, and as he said on twitter, day- to-day adult supervision no longer needed. tom: susie, as you remember, when schmidt was brought in ten years ago, he said the young co- founders page and sergey brin- - needed adult supervision. they ve certainly grown up, given the spectacular earnings google reported after the bell this afternoon. the internet giant earned $8.75 per share, 66 cents higher than estimates. revenues also came in better than expected, jumping almost 30% percent to $6.4 billion. google stock was up over 2.5% in after-hours trading. susie: so, what do all these changes
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt susie: good evening, everyone. a big and surprising top management change at google tonight. eric schmidt is out as c.e.o., and google co-founder larry page takes over the top job, as of april 4. tom, schmidt will stay on at the company as executive chairman, and as he said on twitter, day- to-day adult supervision no longer needed. tom: susie, as you remember, when schmidt was brought in ten years ago, he said the young co- founders page and sergey brin- - needed adult supervision. they ve certainly grown up, given the spectacular earnings google reported after the bell this afternoon. the internet giant earned $8.75 per share, 66 cents higher than estimates. revenues also came in better than expected, jumping almost 30% percent to $6.4 billion. google stock was up over 2.5% in after-hours trading. susie: so, what do all these changes
susie: a new page for google is a familiar one. co-founder larry page moves into the c.e.o. role at the web search giant. this is the case where the grownups were in charge, and now, the kids in this case, the founders are coming back. and i think they are going to add just a level of understanding of the business that the grownups didn t quite have. tom: the change at the top comes as google s growth strategy pays off, with another quarter of exceptional earnings. you re watching nightly business report for thursday, january 20. this is nightly business report with susie gharib and tom hudson. nightly business report is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt susie: good evening, everyone. a big and surprising top management change at google tonight. eric schmidt is out as c.e.o., and google co-founder larry page takes over the top job, as of april 4.