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Who does not love lists? PC World has made a list of the 50 most important people on the web.
1. Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin
Executives, Google
2. Steve Jobs
CEO, Apple
3. Bram Cohen
Cofounder, BitTorrent
4. Mike Morhaime
President, Blizzard Entertainment
5. Jimmy Wales
Founder, Wikipedia
6. John Doerr
Venture capitalist, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers
7. Craig Newmark
Founder, Craigslist
8. Peter Levinsohn
President, Fox Interactive Media
9. Marissa Mayer
Vice president for search...
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Google co-founder Larry Page has a theory: your DNA is about 600 megabytes compressed, making it smaller than any modern operating system like Linux or Windows.
The programming language of humans, if you will, would include the workings of your brain, said Page, who offered his hypothesis Friday night during a plenary lecture here at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science conference. His guess, he said, was that the brain's algorithms weren't all that complicated and could be approximated, eventually, with a lot of...
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Google has added a landmark to its rapidly expanding empire — the Silicon Valley home where co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented a garage eight years ago as they set out to change the world.
During Google's five-month history there, the garage became like a second home for Page and Brin.
The entrepreneurs, then just 25, seemed to be always working on their search engine or soaking in the hot tub that still sits on the property. They also had a penchant for raiding Wojcicki's refrigerator — a habit that may have inspired...
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Fortune magazine's latest cover is devoted to Google, the current media darling, and whether it's a one-hit wonder. So where does chaos come in?
To figure the place out, I've repeatedly been told the person to see is Shona Brown, the 40-year-old ex-McKinsey consultant who is Google's senior vice president for business operations. That's what it says on her business card, anyway, but she might as well be Google's chief chaos officer. She literally wrote the book on the subject, a 1998 bestseller called "Competing on the Edge: Strategy as...
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Even billionaires have disputes with their contractors.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the low-key co-founders of Google Inc., set tongues wagging last year when they bought a used Boeing 767 widebody as an unusually large private jet. The 767-200 typically carries 180 passengers and is three times as heavy as a conventional executive plane. Mr. Page said last year that he and Mr. Brin would use it for personal travel, including taking "large numbers of people to places such as Africa." He said it would hold about 50 passengers when...
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