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Sergey Brin Google Co-founder Books Space Flight

Jo — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:26:19 +0000

Sergey Brin co-founder of Google has invested $5 million in a company that will send two citizens to space in 2011. The money serves as an advance deposit on a future space flight. The New York Times reports:

…the passengers will have greater control over their flight and not simply be “piggybacking” on a government-sponsored flight. They could, for example, have more freedom to carry experiments of their own aboard the Soyuz, which has little cargo capacity, nearly all of it reserved for station business.

Sergey will be ruling the world from the skies.

Google.org Giving Away $26 million In New Grants

Jo — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:32:20 +0000

Google.org is giving away more than $26 million in new grants and investments to organizations and companies devoted to causes that they believe will help make the world a better place.
Google.org is contributing toward fighting health and environmental threats, improving public services and supporting small businesses. The foundation also plans to back efforts to accelerate the use of plug-in hybrid vehicles, which can be recharged from a regular home socket.

Google Enters Mobile Phone Market With Software

Jo — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:57:39 +0000

Today Google confirmed its long-rumored expansion into the mobile market by revealing the Android mobile phone software.Google held a conference and explained that they are developing a free cell phone software package.Which enables the search giant to kindly furnish ads and services to people who aren’t in front of a PC.The first phones will be available by the second half of 2008.T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola and 34 other companies have collaborated on the development of Android through the Open Handset Alliance.
So far, Motorola Inc., Samsung Electronics Co., HTC and LG Electronics Inc. have agreed to use Google’s software in some of their phones. Both Motorola and Samsung already buy Microsoft’s Windows Mobile in some of their phones.
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Google’s Stock Price Hits the $700 Mark

Jo — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:14:07 +0000

Google Inc.’s stock price has hit a record high by hitting the $700 mark for the first time today.
But is already being said that the Internet search leader will become even more profitable when it introduces the Google phone.

The shares traded as high as $704.79 before falling back to $700.04 in this afternoon trading, up $5.27 for the session.
It took less than a month for the stock to leap from $600 to $700, building upon a fervor that has lifted Google’s market value by more than 30 percent since mid-September.

During that 6 1/2-week stretch, Google has created an additional $53 billion in shareholder wealth.
That dwarfs the total $41 billion market value of another Internet icon, Yahoo Inc., which had a 4-year head start on Google.
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Microsoft Beats Google In Battle To Invest In Facebook

Jo — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:49:06 +0000

Microsoft has payed $240 million for 1.6 percent stake of the social-networking website Facebook, that is valued at $15 billion..
The deal grants Microsoft exclusive access to ~~spam~~ advertise on Facebook’s platform.
Microsoft already has numerous U.S. ad contracts and is now looking forward to sell internationally.
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