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Christine Romans looks at how Facebook is gearing up for an IPO despite slowing growth.
As Wall Street makes final preparations for the largest technology debut by value in history, it has also faced what some bankers and investors have come to see as a series of snubs from Facebook.
Is Google's future so bright, it has to wear shades?
Users spent just 3.3 minutes on Google+ in January compared to 7.5 hours for Facebook, according to a new comScore report.
The top government lawyers from three dozen states sent a letter to Google on Wednesday, expressing "strong concerns" with the privacy policy the Web giant intends to roll out soon.
In a letter to investors included in Facebook's IPO filing, CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined his philosophy for running what has become a multi-billion-dollar business. At core of that philosophy: Love your hackers.
A search for Google on Friday will return some pretty ugly results.
Google's infant social network experienced a recent growth spurt.
Looks like it could take awhile for new Twitter user Rupert Murdoch to get the hang of things.
In peeking ahead to predict what 2012 holds for Google, it's informative to look back at the eventful year it had. While one can't help but see the big product introductions -- a social network, a mobile-payment system, a music store -- it's the deletions that are much more interesting.
Google isn't Facebook. There. We got that out of the way. Now let's move on.
Paul Adams is one of Silicon Valley's most wanted. He's an intellectually minded product designer with square-framed glasses, a thick Irish accent, and a cult following of passionate techies. As one of Google's lead social researchers, he helped dream up the big idea behind the company's new social network, Google+: those flexible circles that let you group friends easily under monikers like "real friends" or "college buddies." He never got to help bring his concept to consumers, though. In a master talent grab last December, Facebook lured him 10 miles east to Palo Alto to help design social advertisements. On his blog, Adams explained, "Google values technology, not social science."
Like two freight trains rumbling in opposite directions on parallel tracks, a pair of internationally famous U.S. companies sped past each other in the news in recent days.
Google reported third-quarter earnings that handily beat estimates, and announced that its three-month-old Google+ social network now has 40 million users.
It's been sort of a rough week for Google+.
When Bill Gates testified via videotape in Microsoft's antitrust trial in 1998, he was combative and defensive, as if he couldn't believe how stupid the entire procedure was.
Google+, Google's new social networking service, might cautiously be called a hit. With 25 million visitors at last count, Google+ may well be the fastest-growing social network to launch thus far.
One lesser-known aspect of Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility: It brings the technology giant a step closer to offering a Google baby monitor.
Google's Facebook competitor Google+ grew to 10 million users in just two weeks, the company announced Thursday.
So, based on the buzz, Google+ is the geek-chic social-networking upstart that's going to challenge Facebook, right?
Google on Tuesday unveiled Google+, yet another attempt by the search giant to overcome its past miscues in the social networking space.
Google went on the defensive about its business practices on Friday as it acknowledged that is the subject of a government probe.
The government's antitrust watchdogs and policymakers have Google in their crosshairs.
Google is an innovative, 21st-century technology company. So why is its stock trading at a valuation similar to companies from an industry that had its roots in the early 1800s?
Google kicked off its annual I/O developers conference in San Francisco on Tuesday by announcing new cloud-based music and movie services to compete with the likes of Apple and Amazon.
Investors hoping brand-new CEO Larry Page would pull a rabbit out of his hat were disappointed Thursday, when Google reported a quarterly profit that rose from year-ago results but missed Wall Street's forecasts.
Google's stock is exactly where it was in September 2007, and it has fallen 9% since Eric Schmidt announced in January that he'd be stepping down as CEO.
What are Google's core businesses?
Google famously gives its engineers "20% time," allowing them one day a week to work on side projects that interest them. That arrangement launched one of the most critical online tools in the Japanese relief effort: Google's Person Finder, which allows people to search for and post information about missing loved ones.
Apple isn't the only high-profile tech company that announced a major change in its executive ranks this week.
Eric Schmidt will step down from his role as Google's CEO in April and be replaced by co-founder Larry Page.
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plan to sell off 5 million Google shares each over the next five years, a move that could see them surrender majority voting control over the company they created.
updated: Tue Nov 24 2009 21:35:00
A woman claims her insurance company used her Facebook photos in its decision to cut off her disability payments.
In researching his new book, Googled: the End of the World as We Know It, to be published next week by Penguin Press, author Ken Auletta had extensive access to the company's inner workings and reported widely on its impact on the media landscape.
While automakers lay off staff and shut down plants in response to the economic downturn, one automaker announced Thursday that it will open a manufacturing plant in the United States, potentially creating hundreds of jobs in the area eventually chosen.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page incorporated Google on Sept. 7, 1998, and set out to organize the world's information on the Internet. Along the way, it turned Web search into an extremely lucrative business and became one of the world's most valuable brands.
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NewSpace advocate Robert Richards reveals how Google is sparking a second space race.
When Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon, he uttered unforgettable words. But the next visitor to roam the lunar landscape may send back e-mail instead.
As president of Google, Larry Page has pushed his people to take risks that have led to hot new applications like Gmail and Google Maps. Lately he has been thinking far outside the walls of his company. Page sees a world of opportunity - in areas ranging from energy to safer cars. But he also sees a world of timidity; not enough people, he worries, are willing to place the big bets that could make a difference in meeting humanity's biggest challenges.
Two corporate behemoths try to put some ha-ha into your April Fool's Day... with mixed results
Forbes' list of the world's wealthy has named Warren Buffett the richest person on the planet, surpassing his friend and philanthropic partner Bill Gates who had held the title for 13 consecutive years.
Over the years Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have become understandably judicious about their time. After all, multibillionaires are constantly in demand. Yet the engineering-grad-students- turned-media-moguls made time for FORTUNE when informed that Google had been chosen, for the second year running, as America's best company to work for.
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt take Google's reputation seriously. When informed that Google would be named the best company to work for, for the second year running, they agreed to sit for a rare three-way interview with Fortune's Adam Lashinsky. Here are snippets of the hourlong chat.
No matter how groundbreaking your idea for a new business, you won't get past the starting gate without funding. While there are many ways to find money, most are generally more appropriate for more established companies. Still, there are some smart tacks for startups. Here's a look at seven options:
updated: Thu Sep 13 2007 03:26:00
GSM marks 20th anniversary
Google is bankrolling a $30 million out-of-this-world prize to the first private company that can safely land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images and video to Earth, the Internet search leader said Thursday.
Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are reportedly paying $1.3 million a year so their Boeing 767 plane can take off, land and park at a NASA-managed airport located just a few minutes away from the Internet search leader's Silicon Valley headquarters.
Here's an unfortunate secret about Silicon Valley: There's no there here. Sure, the Valley is thick with corporate offices housing the most successful tech companies. Yes, powerful venture capitalists call the region home.
Any multimillionaire can buy a plane these days -- worldwide shipments of private jets jumped 18 percent in 2006, their third straight year of double-digit growth, according to the General Aviatio...
Last month Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's notoriously bombastic CEO, set bloggers blabbing again when he went on an anti-Google tirade that was shrill even for him.
At the Googleplex in Mountain View, in one of the foyers of the ever-growing number of new buildings, you'll find a giant whiteboard with the heading "Google's Master Plan."
Much has been made lately about the competing virtues of public versus private companies.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will receive a $1 annual salary for 2007, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday.
At Google it always comes back to the food. For human resources director Stacy Sullivan, it's the Irish oatmeal with fresh berries at the Plymouth Rock Café, located in building 1550 near the "peop...
100 Best Companies to Work For Working in the Googleplex By Adam Lashinsky An aerial view of the Google campus. Bird's-eye view Google's employment roster is now pushing 10,000, and, in addition to the Mountain View headquarters, the company has burgeoning offices in Bangalore, New York City and Irvine, Calif., among many other cities. Full list: 100 Best Companies to Work For
At Google it always comes back to the food. For human resources director Stacy Sullivan, it's the Irish oatmeal with fresh berries at the Plymouth Rock Café, located in building 1550 near the "people operations" group. "I sometimes dream about it," she says. "Seriously." As a seven-year veteran of the company, engineer Jen Fitzpatrick has developed a more sophisticated palate, preferring the raw bar at the Basque-themed Café Pintxo, a tapas joint in building 47. Her mother is thrilled she's eating well at work: "She came in for lunch once and thanked the chef," says Fitzpatrick. Joshua Bloch, an expert on the Java software language, swears by the roast quail at haute eatery Café Seven, professing it to be the best meal on campus. "It's uniformly excellent," he raves.
Google relishes being secretive and opaque - the better to confuse the competition - and one of the company's biggest mysteries is its leadership triumvirate. Figuring out what it is exactly that t...
Spend just a few minutes on Google's sprawling campus in Mountain View, Calif., and you'll feel it right away: This is a company thriving on the edge of chaos. Google, age 8, is pulling in $10 bill...
Google relishes being secretive and opaque, the better to confuse the competition, and one of the company's biggest mysteries is its leadership triumvirate. Figuring out what exactly it is that these three guys do is a Silicon Valley parlor game. Beyond the technology world, the trio's individual attributes are even murkier, with some having heard only a little about the middle-aged guy, Eric Schmidt, and not being able to distinguish at all between co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often called, even by those who know them well, "the twins."
If you want to make an appointment to see Larry Page and Sergey Brin this week, you'll have a harder time than usual doing so. The Google founders are making their annual pilgrimage to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for the Burning Man festival.
Google's co-founders and chief executive officer were offered a raise this year by the company's compensation committee, but the three turned it down and are sticking with their current annual salary of $1.
You've come up with a world-changing idea, or at least an industry-changing idea. You have a business plan. Maybe you've even written some code or built a prototype. Now all you need is those few thousand bucks--or a few tens or hundreds of thousands of bucks--to get your new venture up and running. All that stands between you and your startup, in other words, is an angel.
You've come up with a world-changing idea, or at least an industry-changing idea. You have a business plan. Maybe you've even written some code or built a prototype. Now all you need is those few t...
We all know that the company Sergey Brin and Larry Page founded a mere eight years ago is one of the new century's most cunning enterprises. If there were any lingering doubts, 2005 erased them. Google's sales jumped an estimated 50 percent to $6 billion, its profits tripled to a projected $1.6 billion, and Wall Street answered with an unprecedented vote of confidence: a $120 billion market cap, a share price soaring above $400, and a price/earnings ratio close to 70.
An executive at the No. 2 search engine said it wasn't her company's goal to be No. 1. Instead, said Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker, she'd be happy if Yahoo maintained its market share and improved the revenue it gets out of every search. One blogger's reaction: That's it, I am no longer using Yahoo Search.
When you jam 150,000 people into a couple of square blocks, everyone is so busy waiting in cab lines, lunch lines and restroom lines, that it can be hard to think about anything more important than getting through the day. But as the hoards of gadget salesmen, geeks and technology executives head home from the giant four day Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, one important theme is emerging: Hollywood and Silicon Valley are learning to get along.
Convergence, that oft-repeated dot com buzzword, could actually be coming to life, if Silicon Valley's tech titans have their way.
Many companies use flawed techniques to find, screen, and hire executive talent. The problem begins with the emphasis placed on resumes; it just doesn't make sense to base a hiring decision on a fe...
Before he arrived at Google in 2001 to serve as adult supervision for Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt was little known outside Silicon Valley. With his Ph.D. from the University of Califor...
Before he arrived at Google in 2001 to serve as adult supervision for Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt was little known outside SiliconValley.
THE END OF CANCER. FREEDOM from the tyranny of oil. A World Series for the Cubs. None of that is impossible. In preparing this survey, FORTUNE canvassed numerous scientists and other respect- ed th...
Google's chief executive officer and co-founders are taking a page out of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' book: they are now being paid just $1 as an annual salary.
The old library card catalogue took a step further into cyberspace Tuesday, with Google and the libraries of four universities and the city of New York announcing a partnership with the potential to make millions of books available and searchable online.
The old library card catalogue took a step further into cyberspace Tuesday, with Google and the libraries of four universities and the city of New York announcing a partnership with the potential to make millions of books available and searchable online.
You were one of only two venture capitalists to take a chance on Google when its founders went looking for money. How does a startup get your attention?
LET'S BE BLUNT: Big companies almost never innovate. This is unfortunate because innovation is one of the few ways to gain proprietary advantage and stay profitable. It's not that innovation itself...
If you type in the term "Google overkill" into Google, you only wind up with 10 results. I'm surprised it's not a lot more.
Google slashed the price range for its initial public offering by about 25 percent early Wednesday, suggesting there isn't nearly as much demand as projected for the widely anticipated debut of the search engine's stock.
When Omid Kordestani showed up for his new job as head of sales at Google in May 1999, the place was a mess. Founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, ages 25 and 26, were working out of a cramped, dish...
All successful entrepreneurs are control freaks. But read Larry Page and Sergey Brin's letter to future Google shareholders and it's evident they've taken that mania to new heights. The offering-...
As an investor, Warren Buffett famously avoids putting his faith in technology companies. Yet when the biggest new name in tech announced it was filing an inital public offering this week, its founders openly praised Buffett and his managerial worldview.
Google, the world's No. 1 Internet search engine, finally filed for its initial public stock offering Thursday and promised to maintain its long-term focus even though it will soon face the intense scrutiny of Wall Street.
It was the day before Sergey Brin's 30th birthday, and by all rights he should have been on top of the world. Here onstage in front of some 300 peers--engineers and other geeks attending a conferen...
The dream of twentysomethings' swiftly building vast fortunes pretty much died around March 2000 (unless you're Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page). So this year we reconceived our 40 Under...
JEFF BEZOS You don't go from obscurity to Time's person of the year in four years--Jeff Bezos made it in 1999--unless you're causing quite a stir. Nearly a decade since he started Internet retailin...
"We want to organize the world's information and make it available to you how and when you want it," Larry Page says matter-of-factly one day over lunch at Google, the search engine company he co-f...
When Eric Schmidt left his job as CEO of Novell to run Google last year, the reaction in Silicon Valley could be summed up in one word: Huh? Yes, Schmidt's four-year tenure at software giant Novell...
Few things on the Web appear more elementary than the naked home page of search site Google. It's just a sea of white space, a logo, eight tiny text blurbs, and a query box. But once you type in a ...
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