Topic: Sergey Brin

Facebook could be valued at $100 billion

When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking giant will likely vault into the ranks of the ...
It sounds like perhaps the coolest title any American entrepreneur could have: Chief Technology Officer of the United States of America. And it...
Google has a new weapon in the intense war for engineering talent in Silicon Valley: The search giant on Thursday was named by Fortune magazine as...
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 by the Brin Wojcicki Foundation founded by Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder of 23andMe ...

S.F. Chronicle news quiz, Sept. 25

0 . 1. What is Qwikster?. . A: Rent-by-the-hour motel on Lombard. . B: Netflix spin-off for DVDs by mail. . C: App that can pay your bills at the...

'In the Plex,' 'The Googlization of Everything'

0 View Larger Image In the Plex How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives (Simon & Schuster; 424 pages; $26) The Googlization of Everything ...

Source: Brin almost quit in'09

0 . . . Google cofounder Sergey Brin threatened to quit the company over its affairs in China back in late 2009, "a knowledgeable but not firsthand...

Google looks to its next decade

Google, which prides itself on helping people navigate the Internet, is facing a tangled Web as it weaves its own future.While more profitable than ever -- with nearly $30 billion in revenue last year -- Google is under pressure from new rivals such ...
In the past few years, many skilled workers from just about every job field have been laid off. Some of these people, unable to find another job as...

The Google Movie

Following the huge critical and box-office success of 'The Social Network' on its opening weekend, the team behind the planned big-screen adaptation of a movie about Google is hunting for the perfect writer to turn the story of dot-com billionaires Sergey Brin ...