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Larry Page just issued a letter to investors on the state of Google this year. He unveiled the letter in a post on Google+.
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Google has launched its own social network in an attempt to take on Facebook, as well as tie together its existing services like Gmail and Google Chat.
Google+ is only presently available to a limited number of users (though you can sign up for an invite here) but demos show it bears a strong resemblance to Facebook, with profile pictures and a central page featuring comments, pictures and links shared by friends.
If you've noticed the new black bar across the top of Google's homepage, you'll have seen where you'll be able to access Google + once you're signed up.
The Google+ Project: a quick look
What looks particularly interesting is the 'Circles' feature; Google +'s way of allowing users to separate friends into specific groups rather than having one big pool like on Facebook or MySpace.
Circles demo
Another feature is called 'Sparks'. 'Sparks' is all about giving people the ability to curate and share interesting content with like-minded people. It relies on a lot of use of Google's +1 button, which is still yet to really take of.
Also worth a mention are two final features, Huddle (video) and Hangouts (video). Huddle is for Instant Messaging among a group and Hangout allows video conferencing among multiple users.
If all of that sounds interesting, have a play with Google +'s excellent demo or have a read of this very thorough Wired article on the processes and aims behind the building of Google Plus.
One final thought, though Google+ sounds very interesting, do we really want to give more personal info to a company that already knows what we search for & email?
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Eric Schmidt, who joined Google in 2001, is quitting job as the CEO and will be replaced by Google co-founder Larry Page.
:http://www.breakingnewsonline.net/technology/6443-larry-page-to-succeed-eric-schmidt-as-google-ceo.htmlEric Schmidt, who joined Google in 2001, is quitting job as the CEO and will be... more
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Google co-founder Larry Page is to become chief executive of the US internet search giant in April.He will take over from Eric Schmidt, who has been in the job for a decade and will become executive chairman.
link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12246870Google co-founder Larry Page is to become chief executive of the US internet search... more
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Schmidt to step down as Google CEO
By David Goldman, staff writer
January 20, 2011: 6:02 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Eric Schmidt will step down from his role as Google's CEO in April and be replaced by co-founder Larry Page.
Schmidt, who joined Google in 2001 to become its chief executive, will stay on as executive chairman after he leaves his CEO role on April 4. According to the company, he will focus on deals, partnerships, customers and broader business relationships, government outreach and technology thought leadership. He will also continue to act as an advisor to co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
"We've been talking about how best to simplify our management structure and speed up decision making for a long time," Schmidt said in a prepared statement. "By clarifying our individual roles we'll create clearer responsibility and accountability at the top of the company."
His Twitter comment on the shuffle was less formal: "Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed!," he wrote.
On a conference call with analysts, Schmidt said he's excited about the change, because the more strategic role will give him "a chance to work on the things I'm most interested in." He expects it to be "a significant improvement in the things that I can do in my time."
The surprise move shocked the tech industry. Schmidt, Page and Brin have long run Google as a trio, an approach they spelled out in an "owner's manual" included in the company's 2004 IPO filing.
"We run Google as a triumvirate," Page and Brin wrote. "The three of us run the company collaboratively with Sergey and me as presidents. The structure is unconventional, but we have worked successfully in this way."
Schmidt said he doesn't anticipate any material change in strategy. "We tend to agree on everything," he noted.
But he said he believes the new management structure will speed up decision making at the company. Google has lost some of its top minds in the past several months, and a common complaint is that good ideas require too many steps to get approved.
Page, Google's founding CEO, served as chief executive from 1998 to 2001. He will once again take charge of the company's day-to-day operations, and he will also be in charge of Google's product development and technology strategy. Brin, Google's other co-founder, will continue to work on Google's new projects, but will no longer serve as a company president.
About Schmidt's tenure, Page said Google's results over the past decade "speak for themselves."
Schmidt returned the compliment, saying Thursday that Page is "ready to lead."
Another strong quarter
Also Thursday, Google reported a quarterly profit and sales that rose from year-ago results and beat Wall Street's forecasts.
The world's online search leader said its net income in the fourth quarter rose to $2.5 billion, up 29% from a year earlier.
Results included one-time charges of 94 cents per share. Without the charges, Google said it earned $8.75 per share. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters, who typically exclude one-time items from their estimates, forecasted earnings of $8.10 per share.
Profit rose as both the number of clicks on Google's ads and the amount that advertising partners pay per click increased by a healthy margin: Paid clicks rose 18% and cost per click grew 5% over last year.
Sales for the Mountain View, Calif., company rose 26% to $8.4 billion. Excluding advertising sales that Google shares with partners, a figure also known as traffic acquisition costs, the company reported revenue of $6.3 billion, which topped analysts' forecasts of $6.1 billion.
Google noted that new products like mobile and display advertising continue to perform very well. YouTube's revenue more than doubled in 2010.
"Our strong performance has been driven by a rapidly growing digital economy ... and by the extraordinary momentum of our newer businesses, such as display and mobile," Schmidt said about Google's quarter. "These results give us the optimism and confidence to invest heavily in future growth."
With that rosy outlook, Google added more than 1,000 employees to its staff during the quarter and now employs 24,400 people.
Shares of Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) rose 2% after hours.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/20/technology/google_earnings/index.htm?hpt=T1Schmidt to step down as Google CEO
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Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page is taking over as CEO in an unexpected shake-up that upstaged the Internet search leader's fourth-quarter earnings.
Page, 37, is reclaiming the top job from Eric Schmidt, who had been brought in as CEO a decade ago because Google's investors believed the company needed a more mature leader.
Schmidt, 55, will remain an adviser to Page and Google's other co-founder, Sergey Brin, as Google's executive chairman.
The changes will be effective April 4.
"In my clear opinion, Larry is ready to lead and I'm excited about working with both him and Sergey for a long time to come," Schmidt said.
Page praised Schmidt, too. "There is no other CEO in the world that could have kept such headstrong founders so deeply involved and still run the business so brilliantly," Page said.
"Eric is a tremendous leader and I have learned innumerable lessons from him"
The change in command overshadowed Google's fourth-quarter earnings, which soared past analysts' estimates as the company cranked up its Internet marketing machine during the holiday shopping season.
Shares rose $9.18, or 1.5 percent, to $635.95 in extended trading after the announcement. In the regular session earlier, the stock fell $4.98, or 0.8 percent, to close at $626.77.Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page is taking over as CEO in an unexpected shake-up that... more
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Today marks the end of the Eric Schmidt era. I do not know if this is going to be as good as the 1994 return of Steve, but at least we will not have to deal with out of touch Eric and his efforts to fight the battles he lost at his previous leadership posts.Today marks the end of the Eric Schmidt era. I do not know if this is going to be as... more
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Mountain View California // Friday 13th 2010 >>
Google's California Headquarters was the target of a protest against Google's controversial proposal with made Verizon to alter how data and is treated over the internet. The protest was attended by national and international news media and press. The protest was organized by an association of groups supporting "Network Neutrality". The protestors were well armed with boxes filled with OVER 300,000 PETITIONS supporting "a free and open internet". And warned Goolgle and others with similar thoughts, that this was only a sample of the overwhelming support of an open and free internet and Net-Neutrality." The Groups spokesman: James Rucker (co-founder of ColorofChange.org) staged the protest at Google's HQ, in a targeted attempt to make Google "re-think" their bold and controversial proposal made with Verizon and presented to the FCC.
The Petitions presented by the protestors to Google were cordially accepted by Google's representatives.
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The intertubes are hot over Facebook's latest privacy policy revisions. Your digital essence was probably sold long ago and no one asked if it was OK or offered a cut of the action for selling, well, you. On the other hand, this is hardly a new development and the hubbub is a little strident since the time to have caterwauled has long since passed.The intertubes are hot over Facebook's latest privacy policy revisions. Your... more
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The second part to the premiere episode of this new online documentary series about billionaires and philanthrocapitalism.
*Note - 'Now I Can Change The World' is part of ‘Bluebird AR’, an alternate reality drama by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) supported by Current. We invite you to participate in ‘Bluebird AR’. To learn more visit http://abc.net.au/bluebird.The second part to the premiere episode of this new online documentary series about... more
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They're the great minds behind Microsoft, Google, CNN and Bloomberg. They're industrial titans, oil tycoons, venture capitalists and inventors.
But amongst the mega-rich there's a new generation of philanthropists keen to apply their business minds to tackle the planet's problems.
In this series we'll explore the new landscape of billionaire philanthropists. What drives them to pioneer new approaches to issues that were previously the domain of nation states?
Can the extremely wealthy save the world? And should we leave them to it?
*Note - 'Now I Can Change The World' is part of ‘Bluebird AR’, an alternate reality drama by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) supported by Current. We invite you to participate in ‘Bluebird AR’. To learn more visit http://abc.net.au/bluebird.They're the great minds behind Microsoft, Google, CNN and Bloomberg. They're... more
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conversation with ceo of Google Eric Schmidt, co-founder of Google Larry Page, and ceo of Virgin Sir Richard Branson.conversation with ceo of Google Eric Schmidt, co-founder of Google Larry Page, and ceo... more
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WTF?
A company controlled by Google’s top executives, including billionaire founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, appears to have added a new plane to its well-equipped fleet: a fighter jet, or more precisely a Dornier Alpha Jet.
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If the top Googlers indeed own the fighter jet, they would not be the first Silicon Valley moguls with such luxury toys. Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has owned several aircraft, including fighter jets.WTF?
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NEW YORK - Larry Page, Google billionaire co-founder, is set to marry his girlfriend, Lucy Southworth, on a tiny Caribbean island this weekend, a source familiar with the wedding arrangements said.
The couple will hold the ceremony on an island enclave owned by Richard Branson, the billionaire owner of Virgin Group VA.UL, who will act as best man to Larry, the source said.NEW YORK - Larry Page, Google billionaire co-founder, is set to marry his girlfriend,... more
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"Google co-founder Larry Page is set to marry his girlfriend, Lucy Southworth, this weekend on a tiny private island in the Caribbean, US media reports say."
"Mr Page, 34 and Ms Southworth, 27, have reportedly been dating for over year. It is not known if they have signed a pre-nuptial agreement."
I wouldn't care losing half of my fortune if I was this rich, would you?"Google co-founder Larry Page is set to marry his girlfriend, Lucy Southworth,... more
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Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are 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.Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are paying $1.3 million a year so... more
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