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In Risky Year, Buffett Looked 'Into the Abyss'
By Scott Patterson Warren Buffett believes his best deals during the economy's biggest belly flop since the Crash of 1929 may well turn out to be the ones he didn't do.Mr. Buffett slammed the door on one opportunity after another during the most
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What is the Difference Between Google's Secrecy & Your Privacy?
One of Google's leading marketing secrets is to appeal to power users. When describing how they designed Gmail, Google's Todd Jackson stated:
We started with the early-adopter crowd. That was on purpose. We wanted to build a product for people who were
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Matt Berninger Talks National Google Ad
I don't remember the specific connection but somebody high up there is a fan. I think Sergey Brin. They showed us a rough idea a few months ago. It was as much a commercial for us as for Goggle so we were happy to help. Originally the ad ended with
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Indian Blogging Awards – IndiBloggies 2008 Announced
In Best Science & Technology Blog Category the clear winner with huge gap in percentage as expected is – Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal who is better known as Father of Indian blogging revolution and first Pro-blogger in India blogging since 2004.
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And the Best of the Decade Award for Pretty Much Everything Goes to…
You know how Michael Jackson won so many awards in his lifetime that they had to start inventing new ones to justify dragging him onstage? Entertainer of the Universe and Best Selling Artist in the New Galactic Empire spring to mind. Hey, that’s the
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On2 and Google Announce Exchange Ratio for On2 Merger
CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On2 Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Amex: ONT) and Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) jointly announced today that the exchange ratio, or the fraction of a share of Google Class A Common
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LivingSocial and Newsweek Team-Up to Identify the Biggest Moments of the Decade
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- LivingSocial, the social media developer behind top Facebook applications "Visual Bookshelf" and its flagship "LivingSocial," today announced the results from Newsweek's 20/10 project (http://2010.newsweek.com),
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The Upstarts Are Coming
What
are the most unique characteristics shared by Gen Y entrepreneurs?
As you know, I talk about eight characteristics
in the book. But I think that at the very heart of each and every one of those characteristics is a widespread and driving
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Google: Icons of the decade
There is probably no more critical biographical data about Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin than their dates of birth – 1972 and 1973. Had they been born 15 years earlier, they'd have arrived in the Microsoft age of computers, and users who
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My hospital HAL - Google man moots syringe that says no
So would you let this man look after your health records? This is what Rosenberg has to say on the subject:
Let's say your child has an allergy to certain medicines. Would you allow her medical data to be accessible by a smart wireless syringe which
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New batch of financial movers and shakers emerged in 2000s
Another decade is behind us, meaning a new crop of newsmakers has burst onto the scene, from the boardrooms of corporate America to the hearing rooms of Washington. • What follows is a look at five of the most significant forces in the financial world
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Dialing for dollars: Google picks up potent weapon with deal for mobile marketing pioneer
Google sharpens aim on mobile marketing with AdMob
SAN MATEO, Calif. — Four years ago, Omar Hamoui was just another ineffectual entrepreneur trying to spruce up his resume in graduate school.
Now, he's poised to become Google Inc.'s newest weapon as
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Terry Murden: The heroes, villains – and lessons we'll fail to learn
Fundamentally these past ten years have changed the way we communicate and have accelerated the growth towards a global economy.
But some things never change. We have not learnt the lessons of earlier generations when it comes to avoiding bubbles
.
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Google sharpens aim on mobile marketing with AdMob
(AP) -- Four years ago, Omar Hamoui was just another ineffectual entrepreneur trying to spruce up his resume in graduate school. Now, he's poised to become Google Inc.'s newest weapon as the company aims to extend its dominance of online advertising
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Google sharpens aim on mobile marketing
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Four years ago, Omar Hamoui was just another ineffectual entrepreneur trying to spruce up his resume in graduate school.
Now, he's poised to become Google Inc.'s newest weapon as the company aims to extend its dominance of online
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Google sharpens aim on mobile marketing with AdMob
SAN MATEO, California: Four years ago,
Omar Hamoui was just another ineffectual entrepreneur trying to spruce up his
resume in graduate school. Now, he's poised to become Google Inc.'s newest
weapon as the company aims to extend its dominance of
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10 years ago: Who was on top, and who was on the way up?
A decade ago, Steve Case's America Online Inc. ran the Internet portal of choice for most of the nation. So far was the company's reach that it would boldly reach a deal to buy what was then the world's largest media company, Time Warner Inc., in
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migan525: Google Likely Leaking Nexus One Details to Boost Buzz
Google Likely Leaking Nexus One Details to Boost Buzz Search Engine Land's Greg Sterling has his finger right on the pulse of the heady intersection of search, localization and mobility, so when he writes anything remotely related to those areas it's
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Was the Decade a Dud?
Sure, we took some hard knocks this past decade. But as we draw the curtains on the 2000s, we take a look back at the unifying moments, the innovative gizmos, and some of the discoveries that have enhanced our lives. Sometimes these things and moments
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Inside Google's grand plan
“Googled: The End of the World as We Know It,” by Ken Auletta (Penguin; 384 pages; $27.95)
I dare you to name a more plugged-in media and communications technology reporter than New Yorker staff writer Ken Auletta.
As comfortable interrogating a
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G-Day is tomorrow: Google to unveil rival to iPhone... with an online price tag of £300
Google will finally reveal its first mobile phone tomorrow after months of frenzied speculation about its arrival, it emerged today.
The Nexus One handset, which uses software designed by the internet giant, has been developed to take on the dominant
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Rwanda: Kagame Among 50 Faces That Shaped the Decade
Kigali — President Paul Kagame has been listed among the world's 50 most influential people who shaped the last decade, alongside some of the renowned global heavy weights in the areas of politics, business, economics and culture.
The survey carried
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Who owns your e-book?
Justin Gawronski, a 17-year-old American student living outside Detroit, had spent several weeks studying George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four when, one morning last July, Amazon ate his homework.
He woke up and switched on his Kindle electronic
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Three Myths About Starting Your Own Business
Many people dream of shedding the corporate life and starting their own companies. They imagine creating the next Google or Apple. From Steve Jobs to Bill Gates to Pierre Omidyar, many of the world's richest people on the Forbes Billionaires List
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America's Biggest Billionaire Moneymakers Of 2009
Topping the ranking is Larry Page, last year's fifth biggest loser. The Google co-founder made $8.4 billion between January and mid-December 2009 after shedding $11.9 billion in 2008.
Right behind Page is his
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Ramon Nuez: Google is Going into the Electricity Business
There has been tremendous work already on renewable energy. Technologies have been developed that can mature into industries capable of providing electricity cheaper than coal. Solar thermal technology, for example, provides a very plausible path to
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2010 Detroit: Is the future in the basement?
If Shaquille O’Neal’s sneaker were a car, it’d probably be the diminutive, shoe-looking Tango T600, an 8.5-foot long, 39-inch-wide, $150,000 tandem-two-seater in the basement of the 2010 North American International Auto Show. The electric Tango is one
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Google to Announce Fourth Quarter 2009 Financial Results
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the same link following the conference call.
Following the earnings conference call, Google will host an additional question-and-answer session at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time (6:00 p.m. Eastern Time) to
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Google to end China censorship after e-mail breach
The criticism had started to sway Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who openly expressed his misgivings about the company's presence in China.
But the tipping point didn't come until Google recently uncovered hacking attacks launched from within China.
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Google's decision on China traces back to founders
Google 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 underlies a potentially expensive
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Google’s future in China unclear, despite praise for standing up to Chinese censorship
WASHINGTON — Google Inc. is enjoying an avalanche of good will because of its threat to leave China over e-mail hacking attacks against dissidents.
It took four years for Google to reconsider its decision to help China control Internet information in
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Can Google Take On Godzilla (China )
HOW DO YOU SAY, "DON'T BE EVIL" IN MANDARIN? The answer: You can't, if you happen to be within earshot or eyeshot of the Beijing apparatchiks. Who would ever have thought that simple and rather bland admonition would trigger a confrontation between the
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Google's principled stance may cost it
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google 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 underlies a potentially
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Google wins praise for its defiance of China over censorship
The decision by Google Inc. to stand up to censorship in China is a marked turnaround from just a few years ago, when the Internet giant agreed to gag parts of its search engine to enter the lucrative China market.
Google's threat to bolt from the
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Google search engine's future in China is unclear
WASHINGTON—Google Inc. is enjoying an avalanche of good will because of its threat to leave China over e-mail hacking attacks against dissidents.
It took four years for Google to reconsider its decision to help China control Internet information in
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Baidu founder rules China's Web with pragmatism
At around the same time, Google Inc's Larry Page and Sergey Brin were tinkering with an algorithm that would make their search engine the largest in the world.
Li, known by his English name Robin, grew Rankdex into what would become the world's
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Google conscience clashes with Chinese communism
Google-style capitalism with a conscience is butting heads with China's brand of communism.
Google has vowed to stop bowing to Chinese online censorship that came as a legal condition when the California technology firm tailored a search engine for
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Google Co-Founders Plan To Sell Up To 10 Million Shares Over Next Five Years
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plan to steadily sell off up to 10 million shares of stock over the next five years, according to an SEC filing. At today’s closing price of $550, those shares would be worth $5.5 billion if sold
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Google co-founders plan to sell $5.5 billion in stock
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 worth $5.5 billion at current prices.
Under a plan disclosed Friday, the longtime business
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Google founders to surrender voting rights
Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be selling ten million shares of Google in the next five years, a move that will see the duo giving away their majority voting rights in the online search engine they co-founded in 1998.
Currently, Page and Brin together
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Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page To Sell Of $2.79 Billion in Shares
It has been revealed in a regulatory filing that co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will sell of some of their company stock. This sell off will result in Brin and Page not having the combined majority vote. 5 million shares will be sold off, which
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Bill Gates: Recovery Will Take Time
Find out why the wireless standard, six years in the making, will revolutionize connectivity --
available only in our January 25 digital issue.
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Global CIO: Salesforce.com CEO Benioff On IT Scams And Cloud
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Do GOOG Founders Still Need Adult Supervision?
- Google is facing increasing scrutiny from the US government over possible illegal anti-trust business practices. That's despite Mr Schmidt's very public support for President Obama.
When Eric Schmidt was brought into Google [GOOG] in 2001
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Behind Google's Recent Decision About China
Standing up to China takes stones.
Having said that, I am more and more afraid that they'll own all of us in my lifetime anyway.
If only they would have stood up for free speech at the beginning, and not only after they found themselves with a
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In Google We Trust
After having spent the better part of his 17-year career advising groups from NATO to the Palestinian Authority on issues of cybersecurity, development, and governance, Rafal Rohozinski has been known to say that computers can potentially cause more
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O'Brien: Google joins the titans of Silicon Valley lobbying
been a company that believes it has a special mission to make the world better, and it sees its lobbying and policy efforts as part of that crusade. In truth, this massive investment in lobbying is just one more sign that Google is acting like the big
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Tesla Revs Up for an IPO
The widely anticipated IPO for Tesla Motors is finally here. Based in Silicon Valley, the company designs and manufactures high-performance, fully electric cars. The investors include the co-founders of Google (GOOG), Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and
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If Tesla Roadster Production Ends in 2012, Show Us The Money
February 1st, 2010
Whenever we're asked whether electric-car startup Tesla Motors will make it, we respond with our own question: What's the last carmaker started from scratch in the U.S. by entrepreneurs that's still with us, and when did it launch?
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Don't rebuild Haiti; Reimagine it
As I watched “Meet the Press” host David Gregory recently ask former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush what it’s going to take to restore Haiti to how it was, my heart started paying attention.
Gregory was asking the normal questions, and
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Google v/s Indian Authors – The Story So Far
The huge Google Books fiasco began in 2004, when Google ambitious tried to recreate a digital Library of Alexandria. The aim, to scan and place on the Internet, every book that they could have access to, create a huge repository of books and printed
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Similar Words from Google’s Sergey Brin and David Drummond
A daily newsletter with resources of interest to information professionals, educators and journalists.
Grimmelmann says the columns, “bear a strong resemblance” to each other. We agree.
This entry was posted
on Friday, February 5th, 2010 and is
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Rubik’s Cube Puzzle With Google Theme
Google may have started out as a simple search engine back in 1996 by two Standford students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, but the online search engine has quickly grown over the last 14 years. Today, Google Inc. plays a huge role for anyone that surfs
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Google's Chief of Fabulous Opens a Disco — In His Penthouse [Herogram]
Please enter your full birth year
We couldn't persuade Orkut Büyükkökten to invite us to his opulent birthday-and-housewarmingparty Saturday, but we won't hold it against him. After all, Google's ambassador to the gay party scene had to fit several
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Google Takes on Facebook, Twitter with ‘Buzz’
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif — Google says there’s already plenty of social networking information out there, and what the world really needs is a way to wrangle Twitter, MySpace and Facebook to tame information overload — and if its “solution” guts the
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Google's e-mail gets social in Facebook face-off
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. opened a new social hub in its e-mail service on Tuesday, leaving little doubt that the Internet search leader is girding for a face-off with Facebook.
The new Gmail channel, called Google Buzz, includes many of the
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Google’s China conundrum: stand against censorship pits principles against business priorities
SAN FRANCISCO — Shedding China's shackles on free speech is proving to be easier said than done for Google Inc.
The Internet search leader is still censoring its results in China a month after Google's leaders took a public stand against Chinese laws
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Google's convoluted search for China compromise
S hedding China's shackles on free speech is proving to be easier said than done for Google Inc. The Internet search leader is still censoring its results in China a month after Google's leaders took a public stand against Chinese laws that require the
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Three Steps to Demystifying Online Dating
Online dating may not be as complicated as the final season of Lost, but attempting to decipher the clues and signals of a digital suitor can be just as tricky.
But as I reported on Saturday, OkCupid, an online dating site, has been analyzing the usage
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Google Buzz tweaked after privacy complaints
Google co-founder Sergey Brin participates in a panel discussion about Google "Buzz". Photo: Reuters
Facing a a large number of privacy complaints, Google has made changes to Google Buzz, the new social networking tool it added to its free email
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Google'snewe-mail Buzz gets social in Facebook face-off
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. opened a new social hub in its e-mail service last week, leaving little doubt that the Internet search leader is girding for a face-off with Facebook.
The new Gmail channel, called Google Buzz, includes many of the features
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Next chapter in digital book deal: Google vs. US
The Internet search leader took an audacious step toward realizing its book ambitions last week with a 67-page brief filed in New York federal court.
Among other things, the documents dismissed the legal concerns that the U.S. Department of Justice has
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Google Gives $2 Million to Wikipedia
By Sarmad Ali Google Inc., the Internet's most profitable company, is giving $2 million to support Wikipedia, a volunteer-driven reference tool that has emerged as one of the Web's most-read sites.Wikimedia Foundation, owner of Wikipedia, said
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Investigators Seek Answers in Deadly Plane Crash
Investigators are trying to determine if foggy weather was a key factor when a twin-engine plane plunged into a Silicon Valley neighborhood, killing all three people aboard as fiery wreckage damaged homes but "miraculously" sparing people on the ground.
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The Big Question: Is Google gaining a monopoly on the world's information?
Why are we asking this now?
It is the nagging fear that has just been given voice in a Manhattan courtroom. Dozens of Google's opponents lined up to damn the internet pioneer as monopolistic, rapacious, and contemptuous of laws that protect copyright
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School denies Google cyber-attack
A CHINESE school linked to cyber-attacks on Google has denied any involvement.
The state-run Xinhua news agency reported Li Zixiang from the Lanxiang Vocational School in Shandong Province, said that "investigations ...found no trace the attacks
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Young business for an old hand
It’s not unusual to hear talk around startups about bringing in adult supervision to give a young company credibility and maybe attract some venture funding.
Paul Baran, 83, right, watches Eugene Wilson test powerline adapters at his latest start-up
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Palo Alto Wants In On Google’s Ultra-Fast Fiber Project
Google’s (GOOG) plan to offer ultra-high-speed fiber optic Internet access to up to 500,000 people has revived the city of Palo Alto’s vision of offering citywide fiber access. In fact, as Palo Alto Online reports, the city council tonight is likely to
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Who will own what we read?
IT is a truth universally acknowledged that in the 21st century we are witnessing a revolution in communication unparalleled since the invention of the printing press in the 15th century.
Amazon, Google, Apple's iPad, espresso-type print-on-demand
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Behind the Google Doodles
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How and why does the Google logo change on the search engine? Michael Lopez, the head of the
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Now Google is Goliath it really must grow up
David is an infinitely more beguiling role than Goliath. It is so much more fun to be the nimble, irreverent boy, with the odds stacked against you and the future to play for than the lumbering giant with the towering reputation and everything to lose.
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Yahoo! and the future of search
YoelleMaarek says the search deal with Microsoft will allow Yahoo! to focus on front-end search innovations
Photo: Yahoo!
Yahoo! and Microsoft’s
multi-million pound search deal was given the green light last week by both
the US and European
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Google feels growing pains
HOT PROPERTY: US technology giant Google is the company that gained most ground in the annual Interbrand survey. Pic: PAUL SAKUMA.
The problem is that successful Davids become Goliaths, beset by jeering and whirling slingshots
The problem, as Google
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6 Months, $90,000 and (Maybe) a Great Idea
THE print hanging behind the receptionist's desk at Foundation Capital screams, "Our greatest thrill is to loan you money" -- in chunky, capitalized red letters. That's encouraging news for Michael Bauer, because he wants money and has put himself in a
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The EU Searches for a Monopolist, Finds Google
Today’s The Wall Street Journal Europe published an editorial that Alberto Mingardi of Istituto Bruno Leoni and I penned about the competition complaints brought against Google in Europe.
If policy makers set the terms in a primitive year like 2010,
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Where's Google Going Today?
Raised partly in the soviet union, his family fed official government lies, their careers thwarted by state-sanctioned anti-Semitism, Sergey Brin has a personal passion for freedom. Larry Page, raised by well-heeled computer scientists in Michigan,
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Facebook valued at $11.5 Billion
Facebook, the largest social networking site, was valued at $11.5 billion in a new index created by SharesPost, a marketplace for trading in private companies. The SharesPost Venture-Backed Index tracks seven companies from Twitter and LinkedIn to Zynga
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Sanjay Gupta named WEF's Young Global Leader
Gupta, a second-generation Indian American, is the senior vice president and advisor to the executive chairman of Abraxis BioScience, a leading pharmaceutical and health-care innovator based in the US with offices throughout the world.
Commenting on
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Google to Host Educational Webcast
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About Google Inc.
Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry
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SEC Filing Show Google Management To Take $1 In Salary
Google (GOOG) filed an 8-K with the SEC in which it disclosed that Chairman & CEO Eric Schmidt and founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page will each be paid $1 in base salary for 2010. Brin is Google’s President, Technology and Page is President, Products.
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How Google became the indispensable frenemy
The search engine's public image is divided between the believers and those afraid of its overwhelming corporate power, reports Kelsey Munro.
It's the two-man start-up that in a few short years became a global colossus - the brand that became a
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Bob Litan: Visas for the Next Sergey Brin
By Robert E. Litan Even while unemployment hovers near 10%, Obama administration economists have projected in their annual report on the economy that it won't fall to 5%—about where it was before the financial crisis hit—for at least another decade.One
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Google's Computer Might Betters Translation Tool
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- In a meeting at Google in 2004, the discussion turned to an e-mail message the company had received from a fan in South Korea. Sergey Brin, a Google founder, ran the message through an automatic translation service that the
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'Hella-' Internet Campaign Lobbies for New Science Term
To the rest of the U.S., hella Northern California cant for very is a weird and uniquely annoying piece of slang. But to Austin Sendek, a physics student at the University of California, the word is a mark of regional pride, one that he thinks deserves
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NEWS: Bill Gates no longer richest man in the world
Bill Gates is no longer the richest man according to this years Forbes Rich list.
The founder of Microsoft, whose net worth is still a massive $53 billion last year, was beaten by a relativity unknown Mexican telecom mogul, Carlos Silm Helu.
Silm Helu
