Anne Wojcicki

Craig Silverstein, the first employee hired by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, is leaving the company. Silverstein, who helped build the Google search engine, met Page and Brin while the three attended Stanford.Read Full Story

Rupert Murdoch has had his hands full of late. He has been exploring his 'human side' with a Twitter account. No coincidence of course that he has taken to a Twitter facelift in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal involving News International . Employees in the Murdoch trenches have been accused of hacking phones to get an edge on stories. They have also been called out for police bribery and exercising improper influence in pursuit of stories. One way to off-set dark talk of the media...Read Full Story

Is there any eye sight tests online ? they probally do but i think maybe only near sight ed http://eyeexam online .com/exam-right-eye_what-letters-are-clear.html check it outokay, ever since like 6th grade i have been having eye sight problems, i kinda ignored them back then, i am now a freshmen in high skool and im cant see anything the teachers write on the board and i sit in the frount in all my classes. i dont want to tell my parents to take me to get an eye sight test cause they’re...Read Full Story

At a time when the STEM gap is seriously impacting students, it’s hard to keep in mind that there are actually quite a few women not just working in, but leading, the technology industry. Women are founding startups that help change the world, or at least how you find your next restaurant or pair of earrings. Whatever the case, it’s important to remember that while tech may still be a male-dominated industry, women are starting successful tech companies and pioneering new ideas, too. We’ll...Read Full Story

World's 10 Most Powerful Brands The barely 10-year-old Google is the world's most powerful brand, followed by General Electric and Microsoft, according to a survey conducted by Millward Brown's BrandZ index. The survey assigned values to various brands based on their financial strength and consumer sentiment. A sign outside of the Google headquarters in Mountain View , California Google, with a brand value of $66.434 billion, is the world's most powerful brand. The global search engine giant...Read Full Story

Google founder Sergey Brin freely admits, “I am not a very social person myself.” Speaking onstage at the Web 2.0 Summit with Google+ exec Vic Gundotra, Brin says that he thought Google+ would be too complicated, with all of its Circles and different ways to share with different groups of people. But he has been pleasantly surprised. “I have been able to reconnect with friends, I was not able to do that with existing services because of the way their sharing models work. The Circles worked...Read Full Story

What were you up to 13 years ago? Maybe you were perfecting the ideal AIM screen name. Or you might have been surfing the “WestHollywood” neighborhood of GeoCities. Chances are, you had been using Yahoo! or AOL as your primary search engines. But Google’s debut on this day in 1998 would change the World Wide Web forever. On September 4, 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin filed for incorporation as Google Inc. — they had received a $100,000 check from an investor made out to Google, Inc., and...Read Full Story

Hooray! One of the most asked about thingies features when it came to Google+ was for users of Google Apps (Gapps) to be able to sign up. As someone that uses it to power Droid Life, this is exactly what our team has been waiting for. You will have to enable it through your admin panel or ask your admin too, but after that it’s all smooth sailing. Same set of features as the rest of the G+ world. Oh yeah, this also means that DL will finally be all up in G+. My page is here . Via...Read Full Story

div.img { height:auto; width: 10%; float: left; text-align: center; } div.img img { display: inline; margin: 2px; height:auto; width: auto; border: 1px solid #ffffff; } div.img a:hover img {border: 1px solid #0000ff;} div.desc { text-align: center; font-weight: normal; width: auto; margin: 2px; padding-bottom:1cm; } Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife have donated $500,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation that runs Free Online Encyclopedia Wikipedia . The grant was made...Read Full Story

Google co-founder Sergey Brin and wife Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder of 23andme, have donated $500,000 to The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that funds Wikipedia. The donation comes at the start of Wikipedia’s annual fundraising drive that the site depends on to fund operations. Do you donate to Wikipedia? Alternatively, would you still use the service if it used ads for support? Let us know in the comments. More About: Sergey Brin , wikipedia For more Social Good...Read Full Story