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Google's Brin: Free Internet in Serious Danger

Matt Cantor — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:00:00 CDT

Internet freedom is under attack, says Google's co-founder. "It's scary," Sergey Brin tells the Guardian , saying he's "more worried" than ever about "very powerful forces that have lined up against the open Internet on all sides and around the world." Once, Brin doubted the Internet could be controlled. "I thought...

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...

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...

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...

Google Unveils 'Chromebooks'

Kevin Spak — Thu, 12 May 2011 07:57:29 CDT

The first laptops running Google’s Chrome OS will hit in June, the company announced yesterday, in an announcement it’s spent two years building up to. The first models will be manufactured by Acer and Samsung and priced $349 to $499, the Wall Street Journal reports. Google won’t make any money...

Eric Schmidt Out as Google CEO—With $334M Payday

John Johnson — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:08:09 CST

Google made a surprise shuffle at the top today when announcing its quarterly results: Eric Schmidt is stepping down as CEO and will be replaced by co-founder Larry Page, reports MarketWatch . Schmidt will remain with the company as executive chairman, while Page's co-founder, Sergey Brin, will take a bigger role...

Most Influential of 2010: Zuck

Evann Gastaldo — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:40:00 CDT

Frighteningly enough, Mark Zuckerberg tops Vanity Fair 's list of this year's most influential people of the Information Age. The top 5 of its 100: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook : His company is valued at around $25 billion, has more than 500 million members, runs 176 billion banner ads a month, and...

Google Movie in the Works

Rob Quinn — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:56:41 CDT

The Social Network is going to have some competition in the tech start-up thriller genre. Producers have bought the rights to the book Googled: The End of the World As We Know it and plan to make a movie based on the story of Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry...