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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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Anne Wojcicki, the much-liked biotech analyst who got engaged to Sergey Brin of Google over the holidays, has left her job as an analyst in order to start a personal genetics startup. Wojcicki, sometimes known as Woj, is one of the founders of 23 and Me, a venture based in Mountain View which promises to make sense of customer's genetic information.
Genetic testing for consumers is a field with growth prospects, and Wojcicki wants to "solve medical mysteries and unite the world with DNA".
Over the past few years, Google has been pumping out product after product, most of which are still in "Beta" stage at the time they are released. Eric Schmidt admits that Google has been so aggressive in introducing "a blizzard" of new products that "it's confusing to almost everyone."
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is leading an initiative to see fewer products launched, but with more features. The concern is that with so many new offerings, "You'll have to search for our products before you can find them," Brin said.
Could this mean...
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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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