Sergey Brin

When I started writing for Upside magazine in late 1999, my first assignment was a story about an obscure search startup with a weird name based in Mountain View, Calif. At that time, few people beyond the Stanford campus or Silicon Valley had ever heard ...  

Sergey Brin has a beard! We learned this from photos of a recent Google event. There's a theory out there that men who usually don't wear beards grow them when they want to reflect an inner change on the outside. What's going on in Sergey's life to prompt the beard? Does it have something to do with how his cofounder, Larry Page, is now CEO?  Probably. Additional reporting by Jay Yarow, Ellis Hamburger, and Steve Kovach. See the rest of...  

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.  

theodp writes " We were all foolish enough to go on this adventure,' Google co-founder Sergey Brin told the assembled Brainiacs at Google's Solve for X event last week, recalling the time he and Google co-founder Larry Page took their Gulfstream on a $100K journey to watch a 2008 Soyuz launch in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. 'If the rocket blows up, we're all dead,' Sergey overheard a Russian guard say. 'It was incredibly close,' Sergey continued. 'We...  

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When Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev stepped down 20 years ago, on Dec. 25, 1991, it ended the 70-year history of the Soviet Union and began Russia's transition to a market economy. Government control on the prices of consumer goods were lifted on Jan ...  

Plus Google+ searches petering out?, Schmidt's big promises, make your own GIF animations and moreA burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamChina Makes Almost Nothing Out of Apple's iPads and iPhones - ForbesTom Worstall: "My favorite fact of this past year was the proof that China makes almost nothing out of assembling Apple's iPads and iPhones. It's a favorite because it speaks so directly to one of the great...  

When Larry Met Sergey is the highly condensed story of Larry Page and Sergey Brin and the company they named Google. Scroll down for each chapter (slowly, because the graphics are in layers) and watch the men’s hairstyles and clothing change over the years. Link -via the Presurfer  

Back in the old days, which is to say 2004, the planet was agog over the vast riches of a pair of puppies named Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The co-founders of Google, both Brin and Page turned 31 that year, but on the day Google went public ...  

The chilling Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), drafted by Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, would have catastrophic affects on how you use the web and who (namely the U.S. government) controls it. Think China, Malaysia, or Iran. SOPA also represents another reality-estranged attempt attempt from "Hollywood, the Recording Industry Association of America, and their allies to counter what they claim to be rampant piracy online, especially from...  

A whole bunch of founders and co-founders of high profile web properties have banded together to sign an open letter to Washington in opposition to SOPA and Protect IP. The letter has been signed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Andressen …  

Instapundit » Blog Archive » WILL OBAMA DENOUNCE THESE CORPORATE JETS? Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt have eight jets…WILL OBAMA DENOUNCE THESE CORPORATE JETS? Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt have eight jets between the three of them, reports Mercury News. Plus a very special “public-private partnership” involving an airbase.As I keep saying, I don’t want to hear one more goddamn thing about my carbon footprint.  

According to the letter, both Acts threaten to “give the US Government the power to censor the web using ... In just two decades, the world wide web has transformed and democratized access to information all around the world.  

Google's Sergei Brin has expressed his shock and astonishment that the US Congress is currently considering two bills that he feels are a threat to free speech. Brin, who co-founded Google along with CEO Larry Page, posted to his Google+ account that he felt the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills would put the US 'on a par with the most oppressive nations in the world'. "…imagine my astonishment when the newest...  

Google's co-founder Sergey Brin unleashed perhaps the most ... Recording Industry Association of America and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are behind the legislation, which would create an Internet blacklist and they say control piracy.