Larry Page

The Top Ten Things We Can’t Believe Eric Schmidt Ever Said

Eric—it’s been great. We’re going to miss you as CEO of one of history’s most important and influential companies. But we’ll also miss you for the strange, creepy, absurd, and downright dumb things you’ve uttered. Below, our favorites: https://gizmodo.com/what-does-googles-new-boss-mean-for-you-5739125 1. “One person’s definition of evil is another person’s different definition.” 2. “One day we had…

What Does Google’s New Boss Mean For You?

In a wholly unexpected move, Eric Schmidt is stepping away from his position as Google CEO to make room for co-founder Larry Page. Schmidt will move into an Executive Chairman role. But why? And what does it mean for you? According to Schmidt: Larry will now lead product development and technology strategy, his greatest strengths,…

Steve Jobs is More Powerful, Whereas the Google Guys Lost Their Power (According to Forbes)

There were some huge movements in this year’s Forbes Most Powerful People, with the Google guys Larry Page and Sergey Brin dropping from their joint-fifth spot last year, to 22nd and 23rd respectively. Steve Jobs climbed from 57 to 17. Bill Gates, despite leaving his cushy CEO job at Microsoft, was the only tech person…

The Mansions of Modern Tech Giants

My goodness, Steve Jobs’ new house looks like it’ll be a doozy. And it’ll have to be, if he wants to keep up with the ivory castles his tech mogul cohorts have built for themselves. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-the-plans-for-steve-jobs-new-house-5649909 Larry Ellison The Oracle CEO put this $25 million manse up for sale back in 2005, though it’s hard…

Taiwanese News Animates “Google Goes Evil”

This post was previously published in Gizmodo, which is why it has been taken out of the front page. From the talented minds who created animated videos for the iPhone 4, Tiger Woods and HP sexual harassment scandals comes…Evil Google! Seriously, these minute-long Taiwanese videos are the highlight of my job. https://gizmodo.com/the-taiwanese-news-animates-the-iphone-4-antenna-saga-5590271 In this week’s…

Move Over, Zuck: Google Founders Getting the Feature Film Treatment

We’ve all seen the trailer for The Social Network (MARK!), but Zuckerberg’s not the only rich nerd being played in a movie by someone more attractive than he really is: a Google movie is in the works. https://gizmodo.com/the-official-facebook-movie-trailer-5577254 Yes, Larry Page and Sergey Brin are coming to the big screen in an adaptation of Ken…

Shouting Match at Google Over Stalkery Ads

Google’s co-founders ended up in a shouting match in front of subordinates during internal discussions over aggressive ad targeting, according to the Wall Street Journal. The pro-targeting side prevailed, and Google is now edging toward Facebook-level privacy standards. Ack. Google has overcome long-held reservations about tracking users to push into “uncharted privacy territory for the…

Larry Page Calls Steve Jobs a “Little Bit” of a Liar

After Apple and Google’s romance ended, we knew that many fandroids disputed Steve Jobs’ story of Google stealing the idea of the iPhone for Android. Now, Larry Page accuses Jobs of rewriting history. However, maybe the history rewriter is Page. https://gizmodo.com/how-apple-and-googles-romance-turned-to-hate-5483662 Page said that Steve Jobs’ story—which said that Google created Android to compete with…

Google: “If You Are Not Getting A Day [of Android Battery], There Is Something Wrong”

On the whole, most smartphones only give you a day’s usage before the battery fizzles up—but Androids seem to be particularly juice-sucking. According to Larry Page however, if you’re not getting a full day’s use, there’s “something wrong.” Page was speaking at the Google Zeitgeist forum yesterday in London, when he was asked about battery…

Larry and Sergey Plan to Dump Google Stock and Give Up Voting Control

Google just put out an SEC filing saying founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plan on dumping some of their holdings of the company’s stock. When they finish selling 5 million shares apiece, they’ll still own 15% of the outstanding shares, but their voting power will have dropped below 50%. So they are ceding absolute…

Google Co-Founder’s Lessons In Cellphone Etiquette

Google’s Larry Page gives us a lesson in cellphone faux pas by ignoring poor onetime movie mogul, Barry Diller, for a PDA. Actually, he doesn’t just ignore the man, he flat-out lets him know that the gadget is more important. While in a meeting with the Google boys, Diller had this exchange after questioning Page’s…

Page’s Law: Why Your Computer Runs Like Crap After 18 Months

That’s Page as in Larry Page, of Google. His law is the inverse of the Moore’s Law: Software gets twice as slow every 18 months. That’s why no matter how insanely fast hardware gets, your stuff never really feels any faster—it’s just matching the software slide. Of course, the reason Sergey’s explaining it is to…

The Next Gadget Gods

This past year, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs began to focus on priorities other than tech. Who will fill their winged sandals and become the new Gadget Gods? These next gods will, like their predecessors, be people whose professional and private lives, and even personal appearance, are of equal importance to hordes of obsessed nerds.…

Google Signs 40-Year Lease to Build New Campus on NASA Land

Sergey and Larry’s involvement with NASA seems to be getting ever deeper. Alongside the parking rights for the Google company jet at Moffat airfield, and using NASA data for Google, the Mountain View-based company is to build a brand new empire on 42.2 acres of land owned by the space agency at the Ames Research…

Google Execs Took 20 Year Blood Oath

In 2004, just before Google went public, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, along with Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, agreed to run the company together for 20 years. So by the time they can first retire, Page will be 51, Brin will be 50 and Schmidt will be 69. Schmidt, my man. I think you…

Sir Richard Branson Claims He and Larry Page are Working Together

Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson, who hosted Larry Page’s storm-tossed nuptials on his Caribbean island, Necker, last year, says that he and the two Google founders are working on a project together. According to a diary item in a British newspaper, the British tycoon and the two search engine billionaires are working on a secret…

Speaking of Al Gore, we just read that the veep-turned-eco-warrior won’t make it to the upcoming nuptials of Google co-founder Larry Page and his betrothed, the very lucky Lucy Southworth. Gore will be off in Oslo picking up his prize, but he does hope to video-conference in to the reception. You tried, Larry, but there’s…

Google’s Jet Blasts Off From NASA

If you’re a Google god like Larry Page or Sergey Brin, you already own a double-wide Boeing 767-200 for personal use—which is less the equivalent of a stretched Hummer limo than, say, a stretched school bus limo. Once one has reached the level of stretched school bus limo airplane, how much higher can luxury ascend?…

Bye Bye Wall Warts? Run (Almost) Everything At 12 Volts

Google founder Larry Page is getting sick and tired of inefficient power supplies in servers eating up boatloads of his profits, so he’s calling for home computers and servers to have everything running at 12 volts, eliminating the need for those energy-sucking power supplies inside PCs with their various voltages and lame wastefulness. Begged Page…