Google's top execs keep $1 salaries amid turmoil

Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin maintained their traditional salaries of $1 last year even as the value of their combined stakes in the Internet search leader plunged by nearly $26 billion.

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Google's Page rips Microsoft, says Yahoo ad deal OK

Google billionaire co-founder Larry Page criticized a potential Microsoft takeover of Yahoo, saying it would concentrate too much power in the online communications market, stifling innovation and curbing competition.

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Google's Brin and Page Get $1 Salary

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.

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Google CEO, Co-Founders Get $1 Salary

The trio of billionaires who run Google Inc. collected less than $600,000 in combined compensation last year while they raked in big jackpots by selling some of their holdings in the online search leader.

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Google Buys Garage Where Empire Began

Internet search leader Google Inc. has added a landmark to its rapidly expanding empire — the Silicon Valley home where co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented a garage eight years ago as they set out to change the world.

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Google Stock Down After Results Miss Views

Google Inc. shares sank Wednesday after its earnings report disappointed Wall Street and stunned almost everyone who follows its stock, except the company's founders.

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Forcing Google to delete user data after six months could dent its ability to predict pandemics such as swine flu, said the search giant's co-founder. Larry Page said he thought more debate was needed around the issue of storing user data.

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How old Russian dude runs Google's AI

Search engine optimization (SEO) is probably one of the more frequently googled terms among bloggers. And the searcher will find information in abundance. But a lot of it is just hidden advertisements and babble about details.

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"The long-awaited, breathlessly-rumored, Google-powered (and still unavailable until next month) G1 phone was unveiled today with a list price that undercuts Apple's iPhone by $20 but with few design or software elements that had not been anticipated.

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While we're transfixed by the presidential election, in the world of high tech another duel between two well-funded, take-no-quarter candidates has just emerged … and in the long run the impact on our daily lives may be nearly as great -- and perhaps even sinister.

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It's the success story to beat all internet success stories. Ten years ago, on 7 September 1998, two young graduate students at Stanford University incorporated a company with the (then) odd-sounding name "Google".

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Gaining membership to the billionaire wives' club is no easy feat. Today, there are just 110 eligible 10-figure bachelors, including divorced men, in the world.

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It all started with Burning Man. In 1998, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin took time off from coding search algorithms to jump in a car, drive to Nevada, and bake in the desert with circus performers and ecstasy-addled freaks.

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On Thursday, Google co-founder Larry Page visited Washington, D.C. to talk up his company's proposal for a new generation of wireless devices that can run on "white spaces."

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Whats sure to be the wildest hostile takeover ever! Yahoo finally takes up Google's offer to form strategic partnership to fend off hostile takeover by Microsoft. Google's CEO Eric E.

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Before you can save the world, you'd better write a to-do list so nothing gets overlooked. Some of the world's brightest minds have done just that by laying out this century's greatest engineering challenges.

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Dr. Brilliant starts with a general introduction, but the conversation soon becomes about Google's ambitious renewable energy plans. Here are a few more of my alternative energy seeds: Alaska Resort Pioneers Revolutionary Hydrothermal Power

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After the markets close on Wall Street, Eric Schmidt and company open the hotly anticipated fourth quarter and full year 2007 results discussion.

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The web portal Google aims to develop cheap and clean sources of energy to replace polluting fossil fuels and tackle global warming. The company said last night it would invest "hundreds of millions" of dollars in the project.

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Google, the Internet company with a seemingly limitless source of revenue, plans to get into the business of finding limitless sources of energy.

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My fast but fantastic voyage through the inner Flatley comes during a visit to his company's San Diego headquarters, where he has allowed me to peek at an early version of the site being developed by a Silicon Valley startup, 23andMe, which is named after the number of paired c …

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After five years of kneading Google engineers' backs, Bonnie Brown retired and cashed in her stock options.

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GOOGLE founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have joined the ranks of America's richest, breaking into Forbes Magazine's top 10 wealthiest Americans for the first time. The internet entrepreneurs now have an estimated fortune of $US18.5 billion ($21.3 billion) each.

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Parking spaces are at a premium for executives toiling in Silicon Valley in California – for their private jets.

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In the annals of perks enjoyed by America's corporate executives, the founders of Google may have set a new standard: an uncrowded, federally managed runway for their private jet that is only a few minutes' drive from their offices.

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In the annals of perks enjoyed by America's corporate executives, the founders of Google may have set a new standard: an uncrowded, federally managed runway for their private jet that is only a few minutes' drive from their offices.

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Well, nice to know that NASA has its priorities straight.

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Google is shutting down its premium video service, leaving users who have bought or rented content unable to view their videos in the future. In an e-mail to users the web giant said that money spent on videos would not be refunded.

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OUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Susan Wojcicki is reminiscing about her old home in Menlo Park, Calif. "It's a very humble house, less than 2,000 square feet," she recalls fondly. A cozy, four-bedroom home — and incredibly historic.

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In Silicon Valley, where misfits rule, rejecting the received wisdom is commonly viewed as a path to creativity and wealth.

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Google, the world's biggest search engine, is setting out to create the most comprehensive database of personal information ever assembled, one with the ability to tell people how to run their lives.

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