Sergey Brin

Burleigh Manor Middle student state winner in Google logo design contest

2013-05-02 14:41:13

Someday, Burleigh Manor seventh-grader Lauren Shen might go to Google and see what the Internet search engine is displaying to millions of users throughout the country: her artwork. Lauren, 12, is the state's winner in a Google-sponsored national contest...

Hopkins researcher receives new award to spotlight scientists

2013-02-21 07:27:31

Many people have heard of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg or Google co-founder Sergey Brin. But few know about Bert Vogelstein, a Johns Hopkins scientist who helped map the cancer genome and created gene and stool tests to detect colon cancer. A new,...

Stop reading this and pay attention to the road!

2011-12-27 00:00:00

It's a good thing Gertrude Stein never said, "A phone is a phone is a phone." Clearly, these days, her tautology would be a disconnect, received like a dropped call. The mobile devices we're so dependent on, attached like an extension of our brains, are...

Virus strikes Google as it files for IPO

2004-07-27 00:00:00

On a day when Internet search giant Google Inc. stuck its neck out and placed a $36 billion value on itself - higher than even McDonald's Corp.-many users found its services worthless, shut down by the latest version of the MyDoom virus, which first...

Google IPO filing leaves out a lot

2004-05-03 00:00:00

Google Inc. had been such a secretive company that when it registered last week for an initial public offering, the crush of people trying to read the filing nearly crashed the Securities and Exchange Commission's website. Googlephiles found plenty of...

Free: pizza to stressed techies

2005-04-20 00:00:00

COLLEGE PARK - Allow Rob Sherwood to explain his assignment. "I buy pizza for people," the University of Maryland graduate student says. Sherwood is Google's official pizza ambassador at the university, which means he essentially has a blank check from...

Skepticism on Google IPO emerges as auction nears

2004-08-06 00:00:00

Google Inc., the search engine giant whose first stock offering supposedly augurs a rebound for the technology economy and a rare opportunity for the small investor, may turn out to be neither. Some analysts fear that Google is taking too large a...

Yahoo buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion

2013-05-20 06:49:00

Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times.�� The deal announced today represents Mayer’s boldest move yet since she left Google 10...

Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr

2013-05-20 14:07:00

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet pioneer that had fallen behind the times. The deal announced Monday is Mayer's boldest move since she left...

Google Glass not headliner at Google I/O, but it gets new apps

2013-05-16 12:33:00

SAN FRANCISCO -- The must-have accessory for this year's Google annual developers conference was definitely its futuristic glasses. Software developers who paid $1,500 a pair for Google Glass sported them proudly all over Moscone Center and during...

Google unveils $10-a-month 'All Access' music plan

2013-05-15 11:51:00

SAN FRANCISCO — Google on Wednesday launched a subscription-based music service, allowing users of Android phones and tablets to listen to their favorite songs and artists for a monthly fee. The streaming service, called All Access, is available in...

Google's products dig deeper into people's lives

2013-05-15 20:25:00

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — For Google CEO Larry Page, happiness is a warm computer. "Technology should do the hard work so people can get on doing the things that make them happiest in life," Page told a crowd of 6,000 software developers and...

August 30, 1998 The first Google Doodle was designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to let users know that if the servers crashes, it's cause they were at Burning Man.

2011-09-30 16:50:15