Google co-founders to sell shares worth $5.5B combined, retain less than half voting powerGoogle 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 worth $5.5 billion at current prices. Under a plan ...

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 US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC filing said the stock sales ...

Google's threat to leave China is a reminder of the control exerted by `righteous' foundersGoogle Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have always said they put their principles before profit, even to the point of using their control of the company to take a stand. The billionaires' idealism ...

Search and destroy? Ken Auletta's book tells the story of Google and its many media rivals"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 billion searches are conducted ...