Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page each took home their customary $1 annual salary again in 2007, while a steep decline in the company’s stock price chopped more than $8.5 billion from each of their massive holdings of Google shares, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday.
Brin, 34, the company’s president of technology, and […]
Google has unveiled plans for a new generation of wireless devices to operate on soon-to-be-vacant television airwaves, and sought to alleviate fears that this might interfere with TV broadcasts or wireless microphones.
In comments filed with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the internet leader outlined plans for low-power devices that use local wireless airwaves to […]
IT STARTED with two students in a garage and became a $A220 billion giant relied upon by 60% of the world’s internet users.
Now, one of the men at the heart of the Google empire has disclosed the secrets behind its rise from almost nothing 10 years ago to the globe’s most popular search engine, the […]
Almost eight years ago, Yahoo decided to lend a little start-up a helping hand, featuring its search technology on the Yahoo home page and giving it money at a critical juncture.
In cut-throat Silicon Valley, no good deed goes unpunished.
The start-up was Google, and Yahoo’s generosity helped launch the most formidable competitor it had ever encountered. […]
Google lost its bid to get European Union-wide trademark protection for “Gmail,” the name of its Web-based e-mail service. The Gmail name is too similar to an existing German trademark, according to a ruling by the EU’s trademark agency published on its Web site. Google has been blocked from getting the EU rights to the […]
Google is expected to receive unconditional approval from European Union regulators next week for its $3.1 billion takeover of ad firm DoubleClick, a Reuters report said.
Citing sources familiar with the situation, the Reuters report also said the approval has long been expected because the European Commission decided in January not to object formally to the […]
Google co-founder Sergey Brin called Microsoft’s takeover bid for Yahoo an “unnerving” maneuver that threatens innovation on the internet.
Brin reiterated the internet search leader’s position that a merger could violate antitrust laws and harm internet users.
Brin made the comment after an event at the Mountain View-based company’s headquarters for the Google Lunar X Prize, a […]
Web search leader Google plans to start selling ads to appear in web videos and has signed up 20 customers, as it aims to do for videos what it has done for text.
Partners include YuMe, an online video advertising network, Brightcove, an Internet TV platform, and comedy site MyDamnChannel.
Brightcove, whose customers include CBS Corp, Time […]