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Yes, It's Real: New Company Will Mine Asteroids

Kevin Spak — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:26:05 CDT

It's official, earthlings: The world's first asteroid-mining company has launched. Planetary Resources had its official coming out party today, the AP reports, with its co-founders laying out their plan to mine outer space for precious metal. The company, which is backed by such big-name investors as James Cameron and the...

James Cameron's Next Trick: Mining Asteroids?

Mark Russell — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:20:05 CDT

After hanging out in the deepest depths of the oceans , how does a Hollywood super-director top himself? By space mining, of course. James Cameron has teamed up with two Google billionaires, several ex-NASA officials, and some other ambitious investors to form Planetary Resources Inc., a space exploration company that seems...

Google Splits Stock as Profits Soar

Rob Quinn — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:30:00 CDT

Google has unveiled a stock split that will double the number of shares while keeping co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin firmly in control. The company is creating a new class of nonvoting shares that will be distributed to existing shareholders in a 2 for 1 split. The move will...

Britney Is the Queen of Google+

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:18:07 CST

Lady Gaga may be the queen of Twitter , but Britney Spears is the queen of Google+. The pop star recently overtook Google CEO Larry Page to become the most-followed person on the social network, PC Magazine reports. The top five, along with their number of followers as of Social Statistics...

Inside Google X Lab: Office Robots, Space Elevators

Matt Cantor — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:57:00 CST

To Google is to search, but in the future it could mean much more. Google operates a secret lab in the Bay Area devoted to projects far beyond the cutting-edge: ideas like robots that go to the office for you and dinner plates that communicate with your social network, the...

IRS Eyes Google As Profits Jump

Rob Quinn — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:38:59 CDT

Hard times elsewhere haven't done any damage to Google's bottom line. The company has announced a whopping 26% year-on-year jump in profits for the third quarter of this year, with net income of $2.73 billion on nearly $10 billion revenue, most of it from advertising, the BBC reports. "The...

Google Bosses Not Using Google+

Rob Quinn — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:21:31 CDT

The top layer of management at Google doesn't seem to have warmed to to Google+, blogs Michael Degusta at the understatement . Out of the company's top 18 execs, only two can be considered active users of the social networking service, he finds. Five others are minimal users, including CEO Larry...

Vanity Fair Unveils 'New Establishment' List

Kevin Spak — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:20:55 CDT

Vanity Fair put another feather in Mark Zuckerberg’s cap today, naming him to the top spot in its “ New Establishment ” list for the second year in a row. What’s the “New Establishment” you ask? Well, in the magazine’s words, it’s “an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigies, and...

Google+ to Let Users Keep Gender Private

Matt Cantor — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:02:53 CDT

As Google works out its social-networking kinks, it has announced a new privacy setting: Google+ users will soon be able to keep their gender hidden from others. "Gender can be a sensitive topic, especially on the Internet," says a Google product manager in an online video. Starting this week users...