News tagged with sergey brin
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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What's up with Google's plan to split its stock
(AP) -- Google Inc. has announced plans to issue a new class of stock to existing shareholders, effectively splitting shares 2 to 1. It's an unusual approach that reflects a desire by Google's founders t ...
Apr 13, 2012 |
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Google gives glimpse of Internet glasses
Google on Wednesday gave the world a glimpse of its vision for letting people look at life through Internet-tinted glasses.
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Apr 04, 2012 |
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Ex-Google CEO Schmidt to sell up to 2.4M shares
(AP) -- Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt plans to sell up to 2.4 million shares of stock currently worth nearly $1.5 billion.
Feb 18, 2012 |
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Google has intriguing plans at the Googleplex
Google is in the midst of more than $120 million in construction projects at its Mountain View headquarters, including work on a series of new or previously secret hardware testing labs that hint at the Internet giant's expanding ...
Feb 16, 2012 |
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First Google hire leaving for online academy
The first person hired by Google's founders is leaving the Internet giant to devote himself to an innovative online education website called Khan Academy.
Feb 09, 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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Dropbox co-founder aims to build his own Google, not sell to them
Four years ago, Drew Houston was just another super-smart hacker with ambitions of starting his own company.
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Annual Wikipedia fundraising hits new high
An annual Wikipedia fundraising campaign ended Tuesday with donors around the world pumping a record $20 million into the foundation that runs the free online knowledge repository.
Jan 03, 2012 |
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Google co-founder, wife donate $500,000 to Wikimedia
Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife have donated $500,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation that runs free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Nov 18, 2011 |
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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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Google co-founder 'pretty happy' in stealth role
(AP) -- Google co-founder Sergey Brin took a break from his work on the Internet search leader's secret projects to make a surprise appearance at a technology conference Wednesday.
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Google a start-up refocusing on products: CFO
Google co-founder Larry Page, who took over as chief executive in April, is refocusing the Internet giant on products and its "start-up philosophy," its chief financial officer said Wednesday.
Jul 20, 2011 |
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Google-backed 23andMe hits major milestone: 100,000 users in DNA database
Mountain View, Calif., genomics startup 23andMe just hit a milestone: As of Wednesday, 100,000 people have uploaded their genetic code to the 4-year-old company's database.
Jun 16, 2011 |
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Google devoted to search and staying nimble: CEO
Google executives assured investors that the Internet giant remained devoted to search and advertising while embracing risky new projects that could lead to big payoffs.
Jun 03, 2011 |
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Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin (born August 21, 1973, in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian-American computer scientist best known as the co-founder of Google, Inc., the world’s largest Internet company, based on its search engine and online advertising technology. As of 2009, Forbes ranks Brin as the 26th richest person in the world.
Brin immigrated to the United States at the age of six. Earning his undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland, he followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by studying mathematics, double-majoring in computer science. After graduation, he moved to Stanford to acquire a Ph.D in computer science. There he met Larry Page, whom he quickly befriended. They crammed their dormitory room with inexpensive computers and applied Brin’s data mining system to build a superior search engine. The program became popular at Stanford and they suspended their Ph.D studies to start up Google in a rented garage.
The Economist magazine referred to Brin as an “Enlightenment Man," and someone who believes that “knowledge is always good, and certainly always better than ignorance," a philosophy which is summed up by Google’s motto of making all the world’s information "universally accessible and useful."
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