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NEWS ABOUT: Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin stories: 13 news summaries

(Newser) - A Stanford computer science professor who mentored Google's founders has drowned in his swimming pool, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Rajeev Motwani, 47, who could not swim, drowned at his Atherton, Calif., home, leaving a wife, two daughters, and many admirers in Silicon Valley. “It's a rare combination... More »

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Google • Stanford • Sergey Brin • India • death • drowning • data mining • professor

GLOSSIES

 Huzzahs for Masters of Change 


Mar 22, 09 5:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Saying that “change is no longer a dreamy notion but a reality—and a responsibility,” Rolling Stone lists 100 people from all walks of society with “the power of making people think and making them move.” The top five:
  • Barack Obama: “He has
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Barack Obama • Google • Steve Jobs • Larry Page • Sergey Brin • Apple • Bono • Rolling Stone • Comedy Central • Jon Stewart • Stephen Colbert • pundits • change • President Obama

Market Meltdown Reshapes Forbes Rich List

Buffett bumps Gates
in redrawn rankings
of world's wealthiest

Oct 10, 08 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The mortgage meltdown has certainly hit middle-class Americans hard but hasn't spared the uber-wealthy, Bloomberg reports. Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson’s net worth shed $4 billion between Aug. 29 and Oct. 1, for instance, while Warren Buffett overtook Bill Gates, whose net worth declined $1.5 billion, as... More »

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Google • stock market • Microsoft • Dell • Bill Gates • Larry Page • Sergey Brin • Forbes 400 • Carl Icahn • Warren Buffett • Larry Ellison • Oracle • Michael Dell • billionaire • Berkshire Hathaway • Las Vegas Sands Corp. • Oracle of Omaha • Sheldon Adelson • Charles Ergen

 Google Offers 
 $10M for Ideas 
 to Change World 

Project 10^100 seeks big ideas

Sep 25, 08 6:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google, named for an astronomically large number, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a call for ideas that could improve the lives of astronomically large numbers of people. Project 10100—pronounced '10 to the 100th'—seeks submissions from the public for world-changing ideas that the company will donate $10 million... More »

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philanthropy • Google • YouTube • Larry Page • Sergey Brin • contest • anniversary • Project 10100

Google's Brin
Books Flight to
Space Station

Company co-founder puts $5M deposit on 2011 launch

Jun 11, 08 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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,... More »

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

Anti-Semitism Pushed Google Guru's Family From Russia

Brin: Discrimination was 'major influence'

May 19, 08 9:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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.... More »

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Russia • Google • Sergey Brin • anti-Semitism

Even Google Not Immune
in Downturn

Its shares off 40% since November,
'the shine is off' search behemoth

Mar 5, 08 6:48 PM CST
(Newser) - After a hitting record high in November, Google shares have fallen 40%, reports the Los Angeles Times. Investors are concerned that a downturn in consumer spending could slow Google's growth—previously thought to be recession-proof. "Now the shine is off Google, whether deservedly or not," one media... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Microsoft • Larry Page • Sergey Brin • DoubleClick • recession • Nasdaq • Eric Schmidt • Internet advertising • Sheryl Sandberg

Googler Preps for Lavish Island Nuptials

Search giant's co-founder to wed
in Branson's private digs before 600

Dec 6, 07 8:49 AM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Richard Branson • Google • Stanford • Larry Page • Sergey Brin • wedding • Caribbean • Necker Island • Virgin Gorda • Lucy Southworth

Google Searches Green Energy

Company pledges to spend hundreds of millions on renewable energy initiative

Nov 27, 07 5:19 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Google: The Next Generation

Inside Google's unique program to find its future innovators

Nov 5, 07 7:30 AM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Google • Larry Page • Sergey Brin • Eric Schmidt • Baidu.com • Assistant Product Managers • APM • Marissa Mayer

Go to Berkeley
Online, for Free

School posts 300 hours of classes on YouTube, offering 'public window into university life'

Oct 3, 07 6:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Google • YouTube • Sergey Brin • UC Berkeley • classroom

eBay Shuts Window on Google Ads

Auction site drops search giant's marketing tools after weeklong spat

Jun 18, 07 4:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Online auction powerhouse eBay broke a multi-million-dollar "keyword" advertising deal with Google, ostensibly after the search engine threw a party in Boston that crowded an eBay conference. But the boycott on search-driven spots also comes as Google's online payment feature Checkout elbows in on eBay-owned PayPal's territory. More »

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Google • Internet • Larry Page • Sergey Brin • advertising • eBay • online advertising • traffic • keywords • online auction • Google Checkout • auction • PayPal

Billionaire's
Club Welcomes New Members

The Forbes rich list is bigger—and even wealthier—than ever

Mar 9, 07 10:27 AM CST
(Newser) - The rich are getting richer, younger, and more geographically diverse, Forbes reports, with the number of billionaires up a whopping 19 percent, and their total worth up 35 percent to $3.5 trillion. Not only have billionaires been galloping away from the pack, they've been doing it earlier, bringing the... More »

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Google • Microsoft • Bill Gates • Larry Page • Sergey Brin • Starbucks • wealth • Forbes 400 • list • money • billionaire

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