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  • June 2008

    • Google's Brin Books Flight to Space Station

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 11, 08 9:03 AM CDT

      Google's Brin Books Flight to Space Station

      Google co-founder Sergey Brin is turning space tourist, plunking down a $5 million deposit with Space Adventures for passage to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket in 2011, reports the New York Times . Space Adventures is planning to buy two of the three seats aboard the mission, whose sole agenda would be tourism. More »

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      Google  • NASA  • International Space Station  • Sergey Brin  • space tourism

  • May 2008

    • Anti-Semitism Pushed Google Guru's Family From Russia

      newser  |  CNET  |  May 19, 08 9:41 AM CDT

      Anti-Semitism Pushed Google Guru's Family From Russia

      Anti-Semitism pushed Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s family to leave Russia, he told an Israeli website. “The great suffering put on my parents in Russia because of anti-Semitism was the primary reason that they left. And that has had a major influence on my life,” Brin told TheMarker.com, CNET reports. His family emigrated to the US when he was a child in 1979. More »

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      Google  • Russia  • anti-Semitism  • Sergey Brin

  • March 2008
  • December 2007

    • Googler Preps for Lavish Island Nuptials

      newser  |  New York Post  |  Dec 6, 07 8:49 AM CST

      Googler Preps for Lavish Island Nuptials

      Google co-founder Larry Page didn’t have to use his popular search engine to scout out locations for his upcoming wedding. He just asked his best man, and fellow billionaire, Richard Branson, Reuters says. Page will wed girlfriend Lucy Southworth Saturday on Branson’s private Caribbean getaway, Necker Island. Six hundred people, including Bono, are on the guest list, Page Six reveals. More »

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      Google  • wedding  • Richard Branson  • Caribbean  • Stanford  • Larry Page  • Sergey Brin

  • November 2007

    • Google Searches Green Energy

      newser  |  MarketWatch  |  Nov 27, 07 5:19 PM CST

      Google Searches Green Energy

      Google is making a huge financial push to replace coal with cleaner, cheaper renewable energy. The company says it will invest "tens of millions" in the search next year, starting with solar, wind, and geothermal technology, and hundreds of millions more in subsequent years, MarketWatch reports. The company says it can reach its goal “in years, not decades." More »

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      Google  • solar power  • coal  • Larry Page  • Sergey Brin  • renewable resources

    • Google: The Next Generation

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Nov 5, 07 7:30 AM CST

      Google: The Next Generation

      They're brilliant young men and women just out of college, and they're handed more responsibility than many executives enjoy in a lifetime. They're the elite associate product managers of Google, parachuted into top management—like running Gmail or Google Reader—before they're tainted by anyone else's corporate culture. Newsweek tags along on a grueling around-the-globe training trip for the team, and gets an inside look at the Google premise that experience is overrated. More »

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      Google  • Larry Page  • Sergey Brin  • Eric Schmidt  • Baidu.com

  • October 2007

    • Go to Berkeley Online, for Free

      newser  |  CNET  |  Oct 3, 07 6:52 PM CDT

      Go to Berkeley Online, for Free

      Now you can get a UC Berkeley education online, as the school has begun posting course lectures on YouTube. Forget the kittens and the exploding soda cans: there are more than 300 hours of videotaped class time at youtube.com/ucberkeley. Said a vice provost of the experiment, it “will provide a public window into university life,” CNET reports. More »

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      Google  • YouTube  • UC Berkeley  • Sergey Brin  • classroom

  • June 2007
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