News tagged with larry page
Google completes takeover of Motorola Mobility
Google closed Tuesday its $12.5 billion deal for Motorola Mobility, a key manufacturer of smartphones and other devices that puts the Internet giant in head-to-head competition with Apple.
May 22, 2012 |
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Google completes Motorola deal, heralding new era
(AP) -- Google has completed its $12.5 billion purchase of device maker Motorola Mobility in a deal that poses new challenges for the Internet's most powerful company as it tries to shape the future of mobile ...
May 22, 2012 |
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Google provides temporary Cornell science campus
Google on Monday agreed to provide a temporary home to a high-tech science college run by Cornell University in New York City.
May 21, 2012 |
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Company unveils plan to mine asteroids for riches (Update)
Using space-faring robots to mine precious metals from asteroids almost sounds easy when former astronaut Tom Jones describes it - practically like clearing a snow-covered driveway.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Italian professor launches challenge to Google
An Italian computer science professor whose research helped inspire Google launched a new search engine and social media network on Monday that he hopes will challenge the US technology giant.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 06, 2012 |
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A debate: Should you jump in on Facebook debut?
(AP) -- Facebook begins selling stock to the public Friday in the most talked-about market debut in years. Two Associated Press business writers are debating whether the stock is a smart buy.
May 18, 2012 |
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Google rolls out new privacy policy amid howls
Google rolled out a new privacy policy Thursday allowing the firm to track users across various services to develop targeted advertising, despite sharp criticism from US and European consumer advocacy groups.
Mar 01, 2012 |
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Will Facebook deliver an IPO surprise?
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turns up at business conventions in a hoodie. "Cocky" is the word used to describe him most often, after "billionaire." He was Time's person of the year at 26.
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Facebook focus guides Google CEO's 1st year on job
Google co-founder Larry Page has a Facebook fixation. When he replaced his mentor Eric Schmidt as Google's CEO last April, Page insisted that the company had to be more aggressive about countering the threat ...
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Departed Google exec rues Larry Page regime
A former Google executive went public on Tuesday with a lament that the Internet star has become obsessed with advertising and seizing the online social networking crown from Facebook.
Mar 14, 2012 |
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Tale of the tape: Google versus Facebook
Facebook is the hottest Internet company to hit the stock market since Google went public in 2004. The Silicon Valley companies, located seven miles apart, also happen to be locked in a bitter battle for Web surfers' allegiance ...
May 17, 2012 |
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Google CEO Page gets grilled in Oracle trial (Update)
(AP) -- Google CEO Larry Page spent nearly an hour in a federal courtroom Wednesday deflecting questions about his role in a copyright dispute over some of the technology in his company's Android software ...
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Will Steve Jobs' final vendetta haunt Google?
(AP) -- Google can only hope that Steve Jobs' final vendetta doesn't haunt the Internet search leader from his grave.
Oct 24, 2011 |
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EU probes new Google privacy policy
The European Union's data protection authorities have asked Google to delay the rollout of its new privacy policy until they have verified that it doesn't break the bloc's data protection laws.
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Google to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion (Update 2)
Google Inc.'s $12.5 billion deal to buy cellphone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. is aimed at giving the Internet search leader more legal firepower as it battles Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to gain ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Larry Page
Lawrence "Larry" Page, (born March 26, 1973 in Lansing, Michigan, USA) is an American computer scientist best known as co-founder of Google, Inc., the world’s largest internet company, based on its search engine and online advertising technology. He is ranked 26th on the 2009 Forbes list of the world’s billionaires and is the 6th richest person in America. In 2007 he and co-founder Sergey Brin were both ranked #1 of the “50 Most Important People on the Web” by PC World Magazine.
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