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Larry Page Hints at Upcoming 7-inch Google Tablet

Google is rumored to be working on its own branded tablet, in cooperation with ASUS. It's expected to be a dirt cheap, 7-inch tablet which will bring the full ICS experience to the lower end of the price spectrum. Now, CEO Larry Page fueled the speculation by praising small cheap Android tablets that have been ...

13 April 2012
16:53 GMT

Google Splits Common Stock Giving Larry Page and Sergey Brin More Control

Along with its financial report, Google also announced that it was planning a stock split. Owners of class A common stock will get one class C share for each share they already own. The newly created class C shares will be worth the same as the class A ones, but will come with no voting rights. Currently, there are ...

13 April 2012
05:56 GMT

Larry Page's 2012 Update on Google, Love and Beauty

Google's Larry Page took over as CEO about a year ago. Since then, Google launched Google+, Search Plus Your World, ticked off people with a rather harmless privacy policy change, gotten a visual revamp and so on. It hasn't been quiet. One year into the job, Page posted a lengthy update on his and the compa...

6 April 2012
05:38 GMT

Google Open-Sources 'Sky Map' Android Astronomy Tool

Google is shutting down projects left and right, in an effort to concentrate focus on the big things that have an impact. Whether Larry Page's strategy is the right one remains to be seen; in the meantime, Google continues to shed off weight. Late last week, Google announced that several projects were being shu...

23 January 2012
04:50 GMT

Unsurprisingly, People Are Not Happy with Google Shutting Down Picnik

Google has elected to shut down the Picnik photo editing app. It acquired the company behind it in 2010 and has since put the team to work on other Google products, that integrate photo editing, notably Google+. To focus entirely on the new products, Google will be shutting down Picnik altogether, giving users the c...

21 January 2012
09:21 GMT

Google Gets Rid of Six More Products, Even More Wood Behind Even Fewer Arrows

Google is not done with the spring, summer, fall and winter cleaning. It just announced that several other tools and services will be shut down, open-sourced or merged into other existing products. Several products that it acquired are getting the axe, but some of its own projects are being put to sleep as well. "...

21 January 2012
06:01 GMT

Google+ Has 90 Million, 54 Million of Which Visit a Google Site Every Day

Along with its financial details, Google also provided some updated numbers on Google+ adoption. User numbers are increasing, as expected. In fact, Google announced that there are now 90 million "users," though it did not offer any definition for the term. Most likely, Google is talking about registered users, an im...

20 January 2012
07:31 GMT

Geeks Aren't in Kansas Anymore, Britney Spears Shoves Larry Page Aside on Google+

As the early adopter crowd gets bored with Google+, the amount of people claiming that it's dead, it's over, it's done, it will never catch on and so on is growing.That's probably a good sign since it's around the time the early adopters get bored with something that everyone else starts enjo...

23 November 2011
14:21 GMT

Mark Zuckerberg Is the 9th Most Powerful Man Alive

Forbes has published its yearly Most Powerful People in the world list. As you'd expect, US President Barack Obama sits at the top of the list, followed by Russia's Prime Minister and de facto leader Vladimir Putin.But you don't have to look too far down the list to see that, among the politicians, tec...

5 November 2011
15:01 GMT

Larry Page Overtakes Mark Zuckerberg to Become Most Popular on Google+

Larry Page has finally managed to overtake Mark Zuckerberg, on Google Plus at least. Unflattering perhaps, but Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been the most followed (circled) person on Google's social network since the first week.As the site grew, so did his audience. While other users had popula...

24 October 2011
03:40 GMT

Google's Massive and Bold, Site-Wide Redesign Was Larry Page's Idea

By now, it's impossible that you missed Google's massive redesign. It's the biggest in the company's history, the first time it attempted to have an unified design across all products, and, actually, the first time Google has focused on the looks rather than practicality in history.Any attempt thi...

14 October 2011
14:21 GMT

Google Set to Make $2.5 Billion, 1.81€ Billion Mobile Revenue in a Year

Android has been incredibly successful for Google, but it's also been a lot of headaches. It's partners keep getting sued over patents, it had to pay $12.5 billion, 9.08€ billion for Motorola to keep patent hoarders at bay, a deal that hasn't been completed yet, and even that is not guaranteed to ...

14 October 2011
12:21 GMT

Google+ Has 40 Million Users, CEO Larry Page Confirms

Google revealed a stunningly good quarter, in terms of revenue and net income, both of which were at their highest. But CEO Larry Page also had some number, stats and info about the most notable Google products. Naturally, he focused the most on Google+, which has only been around for a few months and he revealed ...

14 October 2011
05:41 GMT

Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin Thank Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, one of the great leaders and visionaries of our times, has passed away leaving his fans, his company and his competitors in mourning. There's hardly anyone in the tech world, and beyond, that haven't expressed their thoughts and regrets, from US President Obama to long time adversary Bill Gates....

6 October 2011
03:40 GMT

Google Labs Survivors and Casualties - Last Chance to See Some of These Wacky Tools

Google announced that it will be shutting down Labs, its one-site-fits-all project which was home to anything that didn't fit easily anywhere else or was just too wacky. But as Google is focusing on fewer projects it's been looking at things to kill and Google Labs is a great target.Still, not all Labs expe...

10 August 2011
11:11 GMT

Google Will Shut Down Labs, to Become Big Boring Corporation

Google is clearly undergoing a big transformation, a rather slow but noticeable one. As with each transformation, some things get left behind, Google has just announced that its Labs program will be shut down. Individual labs experiments will be either rolled into other products, live as stand-alone ones or be kil...

21 July 2011
04:14 GMT

Android Is Huge, Becoming Gigantic, 550,000 New Devices Activated Each Day

Android is big business for Google. Not necessarily in terms of revenue, although that is becoming significant as well, but in terms of units sold. Google boasts that 550,000 new devices are registered each day. That's 550,000 new people that are getting an Android phone and using Google services every day. G...

15 July 2011
09:43 GMT

Larry Page Confirms 10 Million Google+ Users in Two Weeks

There's been a lot of speculation about Google+'s size. It seemed to be growing very fast, even with limited invites and availability, and some estimates put user numbers at 10 million this week. We now have the first official numbers, coming from CEO Larry Page no less, which confirm that the social networ...

15 July 2011
07:22 GMT

Google's Search Group Evolves into 'Knowledge'

It's no mystery that Google underwent an internal reorganization as soon as Larry Page took over as CEO. The executive hierarchy was shuffled and one of the changes that didn't surface until now is that the search group has been renamed the "knowledge group."It may be just a cosmetic change, but it does ind...

4 May 2011
04:43 GMT

Larry Page as CEO, a New Chapter for Google

Today is the first day of a new era at Google. As we reported January 20th, long time Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, will be replaced by Larry Page, one of the two original founders.After 10 years as the main man at Google, Eric Schmidt has handed over his CEO duties to the person from which he took them from in 2001.Larr...

4 April 2011
08:54 GMT

Google to Focus on Native Mobile Apps Rather than Web Apps

For a long time, Google's focus was almost exclusively on the web. Arguably, this is true today as well, even as the company offers a browser used by more than 100 million people and two separate operating systems. This has been true on the mobile front, as well, Google builds plenty of native apps, but it empha...

31 January 2011
06:17 GMT

Larry Page to Replace Eric Schmidt as Google CEO

Google has made quite the announcement along with its Q4 financial results, Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO for the past decade, will be stepping down from the role and cofounder Larry Page will take over. This, apparently, is part of a restructuring at the very top in which Google's ruling 'triumvirate...

20 January 2011
16:29 GMT

After Facebook, a Google Movie May Be in the Works

The 'Facebook movie' aka The Social Network isn't even out yet and it's already starting to look like the beginning of a trend. Apparently, a Google movie is now in the books though it's still very early to tell if an actual movie will be made. According to Deadline, Michael London's Gro...

20 August 2010
05:08 GMT

Google Cofounders to Sell $5.5 Billion Worth of Shares

Google is run by a triumvirate where cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page share the responsibilities with CEO Eric Schmidt. The formula has worked so far and the three are united in all big decisions the company makes. The relationship may be put under test in the future though as the two cofounders plan to sell a ...

25 January 2010
07:04 GMT

A Little Piece of Google History: BackRub

As stunning as it might sound, Google is only the second name given to the Stanford students' project. Philipp Lenssen, of blogoscoped.com, discovered that its precursor back in 1996 was called "BackRub" and that it was a search engine research project that was headed by who else than Larry Page, the last Page t...

28 December 2007
17:06 GMT

Bill Gates No.7 Most Powerful Man in Business - Steve Jobs No.1

When it comes down to Apple vs. Microsoft it is indisputable the fact that Co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates and Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs are the exponents of the two companies. In no other way are the personae of Microsoft and Apple reflected more than in Gates and Jobs. Undoubtedly, the two men re...

28 November 2007
13:17 GMT

Bill Gates No.1 Worldwide in the Vista Year - $59 Billion, $3 Billion Added Since March

Microsoft Co-founder and chairman Bill Gates continues to remain on top of the world. Gates is in fact on top of the world's first 400 wealthiest people. Without a doubt, 2007 has been a good year for Gates. Although he is in the process of transitioning out of his day-to-day role at Microsoft by mid 2008, Gates...

21 September 2007
04:18 GMT


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