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Google's Brin plots space jaunt; Is this a problem?

Google's Brin plots space jaunt; Is this a problem?Other IT space tourists......include Microsoft Word creator Charles Simonyi and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth.To infinity and beyondWhy not? Risk taking is hard-wired into many of the folks that are creating wealth in this industry. And the track record for space flight so...

Tags: Insurance, Investment, Financial Planning, Risk-taking, Brin, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

Google and the 'American Idol' creator: The secret tapes

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk considers what Google and Idol creator and entertainment impresario Simon Fuller might be cooking up that could revolutionize TV. It has been revealed that Google has been meeting with Simon Fuller, he of the Spice Girls, David Beckham and "American Idol," amongst others,...

Tags: Google Inc., Winner, TV, Entertainment, Chris Matyszczyk, BRIN, Brinny, SoYouThinkYou'veGotTheSpiceToBeAGoogIdol.com, Chris, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing

Blog posts 2007-11-12

Google's Brin does not see Facebook up for sale

Google's Brin does not see Facebook up for saleGoogle's Brin does not see Facebook up for saleWho cares what Sergey thinks? His opinion would be the last one I would listen to considering how he and his partner completely messed up Google. So anything he says can be...

Tags: Social networking, Brin, Google Inc., Facebook

Discussion threads 2007-07-13

Google's Brin: I love you, and your biotech start-up

Google's Brin: I love you, and your biotech start-upTitanic webHigh income businesses handled separately! When it strikes an iceberg then passengers would be moved to G!Regardssaran23andme23andme is an awsome idea. i would heck it out. it seems like just another invstement. 3.9 million isnt even that much. im sure the...

Tags: biotech start-up, Brin, Google Inc., biotechnology

Discussion threads 2007-05-23

Google's Brin lobbies for Net neutrality

Google's Brin lobbies for Net neutralityHeaven forbid...Google should pay for hogging my bandwidth when I don't use their services..."Do no evil... to the bottom line"Debate is Right, But Misses the PointBrin is right to oppose anything that compromises net neutrality, but the wider arguement seems to be missing the point....

Tags: Net Neutrality, Brin, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-06-06

Brin, Page, Schmidt to pull down a buck in 2006

Brin, Page, Schmidt to pull down a buck in 2006Proof that Brin, Page, Schmidtare the greatest people imaginable! How could someone who excepts 1.00 a year in pay do any evil what-so-ever?$1 Annual Salary -- Hold Up a Sec ...Could it have anything to do with income being taxed at...

Tags: Benefits, Brin

Discussion threads 2006-03-31

Additional Resources

Video: Can Chrome give Internet Explorer a run for its money?

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the perks and pitfalls of the newly released browser from Google. Diaz also reveals why Sergey Brin is bugging the Chrome team on a daily basis. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Video, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Corporate Communications, Team Management, Internet, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

News to know: Google; Green IT; Oracle; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before Beet.TV: Breaking News: Satellite to Gather Exclusive Images for Google Earth Blasts off in California...Larry...

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, Green IT, Apple Inc., Video, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Corporate Communications, Rootkits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Game Players, Marketing, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before

Google's new Imaging Satellite aboard a Boeing Delta II Rocket. Source: GeoEye I don't know what it is about rockets, but I don't know a single man, hetero or gay, who isn't extremely turned on or even intimidated by them. I've never seen...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Imaging, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-07

Can Chrome give Internet Explorer a run for its money?

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the perks and pitfalls of the newly released browser from Google. Diaz also reveals why Sergey Brin is bugging the Chrome team on a daily basis.

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Team Management, Internet, Management, Google, Chrome, Sergey Brin, browser, Microsoft, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, tabs, web, Sumi Das, Sam Diaz, Mac, Linux

Videos 2008-09-05

Google's Top 10 Cloud Computing List

Dontcha just love Top 10 lists? At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, Matthew Glotzbach, who leads the Enterprise Products team at Google, offered a "Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn't Do A Year Ago." No surprises that many of the tasks...

Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Mobile, E-mail, Productivity, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Attention Shoppers: Apple Worth More Than Google

Apple and Google almost are acting like the McCain and Obama campaigns. You try to grab attention and I'll try to top you. Just when Google took over the tech news attention cycle for a full 24 hours, the invitations for its "Let's Rock" event went out....

Tags: Google Inc., Market Capitalization, Apple Inc., Web Browsers, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-02

LIVE: Google Chrome Press Conference

I'm here at the Googleplex for a press conference to announce the new Google browser, called Chrome. The service will go live at 12 Noon PT today and is available for Windows Vista and XP - for now. Mac and Linux versions are coming soon. It will launch in 122...

Tags: Google Inc., Web Browser, Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Apple market capitalization tops Google

Apple AAPL eclipsed Dell's market cap of US$71 billion in January 2006 and in intraday NASDAQ trading in June 2007 Apple's market value doubled that of Dell's DELL, $127.81 billion vs. $63.65 billion. Take that Michael Dell! Today our favorite Cupertino company achieved another financial milestone, passing...

Tags: Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Market Capitalization, Apple Inc., Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-08-14

Google shows off its bench

The vision of Larry Page and Sergey Brin still holds. In a word, search. In another word, find. Maybe its cloud will bring a third word, host, but so far it is mainly a set of services built around that one word, search, again. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Google Inc., Bench, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-22

News to know: Vista tweaks; Firefox 3; Life streaming for business; Office

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: 10 top tweaks for Windows Vista. Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to show off a corporate Facebook-like prototype About those Windows XP 'upgrades' from Vista ... Dennis Howlett: CIO perspective:...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-12

Google's Brin plots space jaunt; Is this a problem?

Google co-founder Sergey Brin plans to head to space. According to the New York Times, Brin, an investor in Space Adventures, a Virginia-based space tourism outfit, is likely to hitch a ride on a Russian Soyuz en route to the International Space Station in 2011. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Sergey Brin, Virgin, RealMoney, Financial Accounting, Insurance, Financial Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-11

Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?

Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?RE: Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?I seriously doubt they were doing it deliberately, it's not like they could have done it without people realising.And as for anonymously bashing ebay, they were arguing against ebay cutting off other payment methods hardly surprising. They...

Tags: cloud computing, Google Inc., App Engine, PayPal

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

Icahn miffed at Yahoo response; Has Google envy too

Another day another Carl Icahn to Roy Bostock letter. In this installment, our activist billionaire is annoyed by the Yahoo chairman's terse response to his previous letter. Hmm. Maybe these folks should just pick up the damn phone. Anyway, here's the letter. You can...

Tags: Shareholder, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Plan, Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Schmidt: Google's social ad strategy is "trial and error"

Google's strategy for monetizing the social web is one of "trial and error", says CEO Eric Schmidt in a recent interview with German publication FAZ.net. "That's the way we do it at Google". When asked specifically about Google's arrangement with MySpace in which the search giant has...

Tags: Strategy, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Advertisement, Mobile, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-28