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$700,000 from Gates to help protect CA climate law

(AP) -- The campaign against Proposition 23 - the ballot initiative that would push back California's landmark global warming law - is getting another big financial boost from a high-tech billionaire.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Making sense of Google's seemingly kooky concepts

In its self-proclaimed drive to make the world a better place, Google has immersed itself in far more than Internet search and online ads. But driverless cars and a wind energy farm in the Atlantic Ocean? ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Google's 'search czar' in touch with world's curiosity

Like few other people on the planet, Google's Ben Gomes knows what interests the world.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 27, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Google 'screwed up' in capturing private Wi-Fi data: Brin

Google "screwed up" by accidentally gathering private wireless data while taking pictures for its "Street View" mapping service, co-founder Sergey Brin said Wednesday.

Technology / Internet

created May 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

New round of documents aired in Viacom-Google case

(AP) -- Before it bought online video service YouTube, employees of Google Inc. believed YouTube's business was risky because it relied on pirated content and recommended pursuing a different strategy, newly released documents ...

Technology / Business

created Apr 16, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Google CEO's compensation for 2009 falls 52 pct

(AP) -- The total compensation of Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt fell 52 percent last year as the Internet search leader cut back on its employee perquisites to help lift its profits during the recession.

Technology / Business

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Google co-founders to sell $5.5B combined in stock

(AP) -- 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.

Technology / Business

created Jan 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Google search engine's future in China is unclear

(AP) -- Google Inc. is enjoying an avalanche of good will because of its threat to leave China over e-mail hacking attacks against dissidents.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google's decision on China traces back to founders

(AP) -- 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.

Technology / Business

created Jan 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Facebook creates dual-class structure, but no IPO

(AP) -- Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give founder Mark Zuckerberg and other existing shareholders control over the company.

Technology / Business

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google's desire to scan old books has critics casting it as Goliath

Google's ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company's history.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Fortune crowns Steve Jobs 'CEO of Decade'

Fortune Magazine crowned Apple top dog Steve Jobs "CEO of the Decade" in its newest edition.

Technology / Business

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Google co-founder Brin prefers Yahoo! without Bing

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has expressed amazement at resistance to the Internet giant's efforts to digitize the world's books and lamented a deal to have Microsoft handle online search at Yahoo!

Technology / Internet

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Google CEO: New operating system changes the game

(AP) -- Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt can't wait for the Internet search leader's free operating system to debut next year.

Technology / Software

created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Enzyme fights mutated protein in inherited Parkinson's disease

An enzyme that naturally occurs in the brain helps destroy the mutated protein that is the most common cause of inherited Parkinson's disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0