News on Sergey Brin

Google co-founders to sell $5.5B combined in stock

2010-02-22T16:17:57Z

<div id="subtitle">Google co-founders to sell shares worth $5.5B combined, retain less than half voting power</div><div><p>Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are relinquishing some of their control over the Internet search leader with the sale of 10 million shares wor...

Google co-founders to each sell five million shares

2010-02-22T16:16:08Z

<div><p>Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin each plan to sell five million shares in the Internet giant, a move that would reduce their joint holdings to below 50 percent, according to a filing Friday with the Google's threat to leave China is a reminder of the control exerted by `righteous' founders</div><div><p>Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have always said they put their principles before profit, even to t...

Author Ken Auletta searches for the Google story

2010-02-24T11:08:33Z

<div id="subtitle">Search and destroy? Ken Auletta's book tells the story of Google and its many media rivals</div><div><p>"Googled: The End of the World as We Know It" (The Penguin Press, 336 pages, $25.95), by Ken Auletta. Google is best understood in terms of billions. Three...

A glance at space tourists past and present

2010-02-25T01:33:06Z

<div id="subtitle">A glance at the colorful few who have taken the ultimate vacation, in space</div><div><p>As Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte prepares for his trip to the International Space Station, here's a look at t...

The Amazing Success Story of Google

2010-02-25T06:47:06Z

I have presented below the amazing success story of google. This article focuses more on straight points rather than lengthy explanations.<br><br>Let us see see some quick facts & figures:<br>Google was named after the number "Googol" which means one followed by a hundred zeros. It is the top search engine with over fifty percent market share. It is one of the top three most visited website...

Google invests $2.6M in startup tied to Brin

2010-02-26T19:23:50Z

<div id="subtitle">Family ties: Google invests another $2.6 million in startup launched by co-founder's wife</div><div><p>Google Inc. loves 23andMe Inc., a biotechnology startup conceived by co-founder Sergey Brin's wife.</p><p>In its latest showing of...

Google's top execs keep $1 salaries amid turmoil

2010-03-03T22:44:14Z

<div id="subtitle">Google CEO, co-founders maintain salaries at $1 as they lose billions on stock holdings</div><div><p>Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin maintained their traditi...

Google executives get one-dollar paychecks in 2008

2010-03-03T22:41:06Z

<div><p>Google's co-founders and the California Internet titan's chief executive Eric Schmidt each took only a dollar in pay last year, a filing with US regulators indicates.</p><p>Wall Street right now, but end-of-year cash is still being handed out in Silicon Valley.</p><p>Internet search king Google on Tuesday revealed the performance-related bonuses given by the board of directors in 2008 to top executives of the...

Make Giving Part of Your Business Strategy

2010-03-01T07:27:31Z

<div><p> Talk about great philanthropists, and the names of celebrated entrepreneurs -- think Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller -- are sure to come up. Those who've amassed fortunes but haven't forgotten their hardscrabble beginnings have long formed the backbone of philanthropic giving in the U.S. In more recent years, a new generation of success stories, from Bill...

Google co-founder Sergey Brin begins blogging

2010-02-28T12:47:39Z

<div><p>Google co-founder Sergey Brin has started a blog, candidly telling of being at risk for Parkinson's Disease and plugging his wife's genetic testing start-up firm.</p><p>While Brin is no stranger to news-making webcasts and online press announcements, he made a blogging debut Thursday by sharing personal musings in a post at th...

Google co-founder Serge Brin begins blogging

2010-02-28T12:47:41Z

Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old

2010-02-28T16:02:58Z

<div id="subtitle">Still feeling lucky: As Google turns 10, management searches for more frontiers to conquer</div><div><p>When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on...

Summary box: Google still feeling lucky at 10

2010-02-28T16:06:33Z

<div id="subtitle">Summary box: Google makes huge impact after humble start 10 years ago</div><div><p>HUMBLE START: Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated Google on Sept. 7, 1998, after unsuccessfully trying to sell their search engine for a couple of million dollars. They set up sh...

Ten tomorrow! Google celebrates birthday with plan to sink Microsoft

2010-02-28T17:00:01Z

<div><p>As Google prepares to blow out the 10 candles on top of its birthday cake this Sunday, founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin can be forgiven for cracking a wry smile as they reflect upon the fire they have just lit under Microsoft.&...

The Google Killer engine has arrived ... er, no it hasn't

2010-03-03T23:53:34Z

<div><p>Sometimes, ignorance is bliss. We saw two examples of this last week. The first came when a new search engine - Cuil (<a href="http://www.cuil.com">www.cuil.com</a>) - was unveiled. The launch was an old-style PR operation. Some influential bloggers and mainstream reporters had been briefed in advance, and whispers were circulating in cyberspace that this would be Something Big. C...