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IRS Eyes Google As Profits Jump

Company going 'gangbusters,' boasts CEO

(Newser) - Hard times elsewhere haven't done any damage to Google's bottom line. The company has announced a whopping 26% year-on-year jump in profits for the third quarter of this year, with net income of $2.73 billion on nearly $10 billion revenue, most of it from advertising, the BBC...

Google Bosses Not Using Google+
Google Bosses
Not Using Google+
Oct 7, 2011 3:21 AM CDT

Google Bosses Not Using Google+

Only 2 of top 18 Googlers are active users of service

(Newser) - The top layer of management at Google doesn't seem to have warmed to to Google+, blogs Michael Degusta at the understatement . Out of the company's top 18 execs, only two can be considered active users of the social networking service, he finds. Five others are minimal users, including...

Vanity Fair Unveils 'New Establishment' List

Mark Zuckerberg tops it, along with other tech execs

(Newser) - Vanity Fair put another feather in Mark Zuckerberg’s cap today, naming him to the top spot in its “ New Establishment ” list for the second year in a row. What’s the “New Establishment” you ask? Well, in the magazine’s words, it’s “an innovative...

Google+ to Let Users Keep Gender Private

Site wants the information, but it can be hidden

(Newser) - As Google works out its social-networking kinks, it has announced a new privacy setting: Google+ users will soon be able to keep their gender hidden from others. "Gender can be a sensitive topic, especially on the Internet," says a Google product manager in an online video. Starting this...

Most Popular User on Google+ Is ... Zuckerberg

Facebook founder has more followers than anyone else

(Newser) - How's this for irony: Google+ is a Facebook competitor ... but its most popular user is none other than Mark Zuckerberg. Zuck hasn't even posted to Google+ yet, the Atlantic notes, but according to tracking service Social Statistics , he has amassed the most followers; in second is Larry Page....

Google Wants Solar Panels on Your Roof

Company invests $280M in plan with installer SolarCity

(Newser) - Google is investing $280 million to help private US homeowners put solar panels on their rooftops. The money will allow installer SolarCity to offer solar systems to 10,000 homeowners for no money up front. In exchange, customers agree to pay a set price for the power produced by the...

Eric Schmidt Out as Google CEO—With $334M Payday

Co-founder Larry Page will take over in April

(Newser) - Google made a surprise shuffle at the top today when announcing its quarterly results: Eric Schmidt is stepping down as CEO and will be replaced by co-founder Larry Page, reports MarketWatch . Schmidt will remain with the company as executive chairman, while Page's co-founder, Sergey Brin, will take a bigger role...

Most Influential of 2010: Zuck
 Most Influential of 2010: Zuck 
vanity fair 100
Sep 4, 2010 10:40 AM CDT

Most Influential of 2010: Zuck

Facebook founder tops Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch

(Newser) - Frighteningly enough, Mark Zuckerberg tops Vanity Fair 's list of this year's most influential people of the Information Age. The top 5 of its 100:
  1. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook: His company is valued at around $25 billion, has more than 500 million members, runs 176 billion banner ads a month, and
...

Google Movie in the Works


 Google Movie 
 in the Works 
Aug 20, 2010 3:56 AM CDT

Google Movie in the Works

Producers buy rights to 'don't be evil' story

(Newser) - The Social Network is going to have some competition in the tech start-up thriller genre. Producers have bought the rights to the book Googled: The End of the World As We Know it and plan to make a movie based on the story of Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry...

Huzzahs for Masters of Change
 Huzzahs for Masters of Change 
GLOSSIES
Mar 22, 2009 5:14 AM CDT

Huzzahs for Masters of Change

(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 a capacity
...

Market Meltdown Reshapes Forbes Rich List

Buffett bumps Gates in redrawn rankings of world's wealthiest

(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...

Google Offers $10M for Ideas to Change World

Project 10^100 seeks big ideas

(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...

Google Guru Prods FCC Over Wi-Fi
Google Guru Prods FCC
Over Wi-Fi
May 23, 2008 11:46 AM CDT

Google Guru Prods FCC Over Wi-Fi

"White space" would increase wireless Internet access

(Newser) - Google co-founder Larry Page urged Congress and the FCC this week to open up access to unused television airwaves to broaden the reach of wireless Internet. Page asserted that the unused waves, called "white space," would increase Wi-Fi range in rural areas and help provide Internet capability to...

Even Google Not Immune in Downturn
Even Google Not Immune
in Downturn
Mar 5, 2008 6:48 PM CST

Even Google Not Immune in Downturn

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

(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 analyst...

Future Sunny for Solar Power
Future Sunny for Solar Power
Feb 20, 2008 1:26 PM CST

Future Sunny for Solar Power

Tech leap will enable replacement of fossil fuels in 20 years: panel

(Newser) - Don’t sweat the energy crisis, say scientist Ray Kurzweil and Google co-founder Larry Page, who predict that within 20 years we’ll be getting 100% of our energy from the sun, based on current solar technology and growth trends. Kurzweil’s fortune-telling record is pretty good: He foresaw the...

Googler Preps for Lavish Island Nuptials

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

(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...

Google Searches Green Energy
Google Searches Green Energy
Nov 27, 2007 5:19 PM CST

Google Searches Green Energy

Company pledges to spend hundreds of millions on renewable energy initiative

(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...

Google: The Next Generation
Google: The Next Generation
Nov 5, 2007 7:30 AM CST

Google: The Next Generation

Inside Google's unique program to find its future innovators

(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...

Google Founder's Wedding Date Suppressed

Published, retracted without explanation

(Newser) - Valleywag reports that somebody leaked Google founder Larry Page's wedding date to a Fortune editor, but the info was later scrubbed from the story in which it had appeared. And the old version of the article doesn't show up in the Google cache of the page. Yahoo cached the original...

eBay Shuts Window on Google Ads
eBay Shuts Window on Google Ads
Jun 18, 2007 4:29 AM CDT

eBay Shuts Window on Google Ads

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

(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.

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