Sergey Brin

Jerry Yang’s Tough Week

watchmojo.com     May 20, 2008   6 related          

Well… if nothing else, Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang will grow a thick skin. Last week, the man he made a billionaire many times over (by agreeing buy Broadcast.com for $5.7B), Mark Cuban, joined the lynch mob that is eager to dance on his grave. This week, the man he made a billionaire many times over...                    

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"We're ditching our wives and getting married" [Caption Contest]

valleywag.com     May 20, 2008   2 related          

Proud Google CEO and father figure Eric Schmidt looks on as Sergey Brin and Larry Page announce their undying love for each other in the wake of the California Supreme Court decision legalizing gay... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]                    

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Terry Semel: A Man Of Few Words (On Yahoo)

techcrunch.com     May 20, 2008   2 related          

Last week The Globes’ Noa Pereg interviewed ex-Yahoo CEO Terry Semel (he resigned in June 2007) Shimon Peres’ “President’s Conference.” Also on the panel was Sergey Brin, Susan Decker, Rupert Murdoc and Yossi Vardi. Pereg dug to try to get something juicy out of Semel on the Microsoft/Yahoo...                    

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Tesla Chairman Expects I.P.O. This Year

nytimes.com     May 19, 2008   6 related          

Most people probably won’t be able to afford one of the sexy electric sports cars from Tesla Motors. The Roadster sells for about $100,000 and only recently began shipping in limited quantities. But fans of Tesla may be able to buy something else later this year: Shares of Tesla’s stock. Elon...                    

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Something Google Doesn’t Want You to See

nytimes.com     May 19, 2008   3 related          

A Lego artwork by Sean Kenney, commissioned by Google, at the Internet company’s Chelsea offices. Google honored Lego’s 50th birthday with its own illustrated Google Lego logo (which an inspired fan turned into a real Google Lego logo). Google’s New York offices even commissioned a Lego artist,...                    

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Geek + nerd = ?

guardian.co.uk     May 19, 2008          

Mathematics is a despised subject - and yet modern life depends on it and several of the world's richest people are mathematicians Recent research shows that many young people are rejecting mathematics because of widespread ignorance of the true nature of the subject and its practitioners. They...                    

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Red Room: CEO by Day, Superhero at Night

marketwire.com     May 19, 2008   3 related          

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (MARKET WIRE) Ivory Madison is the only CEO in America who moonlights as a comic book writer. Part one of Madison's debut comic book miniseries/graphic novel, "Huntress: Year One," published by DC Comics, hits stores this week. It features Batman, Catwoman, Batgirl, and tells...                    

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin: My family left Russia because of anti-Semitism

neoconexpress.blogspot.com     May 18, 2008   8 related          

This is just an amazing story. Even Sergey Brin was mostly unaware of his parents struggles until farily recently. In the end, we have all benefited from this family's drama. Sergey is the President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at $18.5 billion as of March 9, 2007, making...                    

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Sergey Brin about the Israeli start-up scene (video)

thenextweb.org     May 17, 2008   3 related          

Sergey Brin at Garage Geeks Thursday night Garage Geeks hosted Sergey Brin, founder of Google, who was nice enough to answer many of our questions about Google’s past, future, and his view of the Israeli startup scene. Garage Geeks is a “physical & virtual space for multi-disciplinary creative...                    

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Whither Bush's Blog?

poynter.org     May 16, 2008          

whitehouse.gov The President's "Trip Notes from the Middle East" blog says nothing about his current Israel jaunt. The last update was Jan. 16. As Steve Klein noted in Tidbits on Jan. 10, the White House -- including President Bush (although I have my doubts the Blogger-in-Chief put fingers to...                    

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