News tagged with sergey brin

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.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 34

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.

Technology / Business

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

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.

Technology / Business

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

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.

Technology / Business

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (6) | comments 13

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.

Technology / Business

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google replants its garage roots in tech workshops

Amid all the free food and other goodies that come with a job at Google Inc., there's one benefit a lot of employees don't even know about: a cluster of high-tech workshops that have become a tinkerer's paradise.

Technology / Other

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 4

As Google matures, startups keep it young

Google co-founder Larry Page is taking charge of the maturing Internet giant in a move seen as recapturing youthful roots in the face of competition from hip upstart startups like Facebook.

Technology / Business

created Mar 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.

Technology / Business

created Jun 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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 turns Page on Schmidt, names co-founder CEO (Update)

When Google Inc. went public in 2004, the three men running the company promised each other they would remain a ruling triumvirate for at least 20 more years.

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created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google to bring ultra high-speed broadband to Stanford

Google announced plans on Thursday to test an ultra high-speed broadband network at Stanford University, where the Internet giant's co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin went to school.

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 21, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

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

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 ...

Technology / Business

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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.

Technology / Business

created Feb 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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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