Larry Page

It's no secret that Facebook's 27-year old founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is a wealthy man. With an estimated net worth of $17.5 billion, he was ranked 52nd on Forbes 2011 list of the world's richest people. The IPO paperwork that the social-networking site filed on Wednesday provided more insight into just how much he's pulling in and how much he might gain from the initial public offering. Hayley Tsukayama reports : The base salaries for all of Facebook's top executives were...

Google I/O, the search company's annual developers conference, continued today in San Francisco. The many projects discussed at the conference so far reveal Google's overall vision of a single, integrated platform that anticipates and addresses users' needs for information online, The Washington Post's Hayley Tsukayama writes: That's the goal of every tech titan — Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook — who are trying to be all things to...

Google announced a new music service on the first day of its annual developers' conference Tuesday, and the company's chief executive officer, Larry Page, answered questions from the audience in San Francisco. The subscription-based music service, Google Music All Access , will be similar to other platforms already online: The service, which lets users listen to tracks on demand and forms "stations" of related songs as you listen, will cost $9.99 per month. Early users, who sign on to the service before...

Google offered users a peek at the future of its Maps service Wednesday, announcing that it is giving the widely-used service a complete makeover, including bigger maps and more interactive features. The company's maps program has more or less become the standard for people trying to get from point A to point B in the Internet age. But the company is making drastic changes to the service's familiar layout and pulling in more information from other Google services. The Maps makeover was one of several products that Google unveiled to...

Google I/O, the search company's annual developers conference, continued today in San Francisco. The many projects discussed at the conference so far reveal Google's overall vision of a single, integrated platform that anticipates and addresses users' needs for information online, The Washington Post's Hayley Tsukayama writes: That's the goal of every tech titan — Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook — who are trying to be all things to...

Google offered users a peek at the future of its Maps service Wednesday, announcing that it is giving the widely-used service a complete makeover, including bigger maps and more interactive features. The company's maps program has more or less become the standard for people trying to get from point A to point B in the Internet age. But the company is making drastic changes to the service's familiar layout and pulling in more information from other Google services. The Maps makeover was one of several products that Google...

ENERGY Price-fixing probe targets 3 oil firms European antitrust authorities have launched investigations into at least three oil companies on suspicion of price-fixing. Britain's BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Norway's Statoil confirmed that they are subjects of the inquiry announced Tuesday by the European Union's executive arm, the European Commission. Statoil said a raid at its headquarters in Stavanger, Norway, was carried out with the assistance of Norwegian...

Google launched its new privacy policy on Thursday, adding Web search and YouTube history to the pool of data that the company collects about its account-holders. The changes bring 60 of the company's services under the same umbrella, and clarifies that Google has permission to share the information of people who have signed into their accounts. That means that what you watch on YouTube will inform ads you see in Gmail or could change the results you get in Web searches.

Google doesn't make much money from its Android phones, but chief executive Larry Page recently vowed in an earnings call that that was about to change. A push by the company to create clearer online profiles of Web surfers may turn the promise into reality, analysts say. Google this week announced a shift in its privacy policies that will allow it to follow the activities of users as they move across the firm's Web sites, including its highly popular YouTube, Gmail and main...

On Tuesday, Facebook announced its third-quarter results, with slightly higher revenues than analysts had expected and indications that mobile ads were showing results. Facebook shares rallied in after-hours trading on the news, which should help to quiet calls from some corners that the social network's young CEO needs to be replaced by a professional manager in the aftermath of its troubled IPO . Reuters columnist John C. Abell, for instance, wrote in July that "Facebook needs its spiritual leader...

Google announced a new music service on the first day of its annual developers' conference Tuesday, and the company's chief executive officer, Larry Page, answered questions from the audience in San Francisco. The subscription-based music service, Google Music All Access , will be similar to other platforms already online: The service, which lets users listen to tracks on demand and forms "stations" of related songs as you listen, will cost $9.99 per month. Early users, who sign on to the service before...

Google chief executive Larry Page not only took the stage at the company's annual developers conference on Wednesday — just one day after he announced that he has a vocal cord condition — he also took the quite un­or­tho­dox step of answering open questions from the audience. In a very soft and raspy voice, Page spoke at some length during the discussion about the conflict between innovation and regulation. Noting that laws have trouble catching up with technological change, Page said the technology...

ENERGY Price-fixing probe targets 3 oil firms European antitrust authorities have launched investigations into at least three oil companies on suspicion of price-fixing. Britain's BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Norway's Statoil confirmed that they are subjects of the inquiry announced Tuesday by the European Union's executive arm, the European Commission. Statoil said a raid at its headquarters in Stavanger, Norway, was carried out with the assistance of Norwegian...

Google chief executive Larry Page disclosed Tuesday that he suffers from voice paralysis, answering several months of questions as to why Google's top executive was shying away from public speaking engagements. Page made the announcement on his Google+ page , saying that he has been fully able to fulfill his duties "at home and at work" with a softer voice but that it's more "tedious" for him to speak publicly. Page's voice condition has been the subject of speculation since last year's Google I/O...

SAN FRANCISCO — Google CEO Larry Page has disclosed a problem with his vocal cords that makes it difficult for him to speak and breathe occasionally, but he says he remains fit enough to keep running the Internet's most influential company. The explanation that Page posted Tuesday on his Google Plus profile cleared up a mystery hanging over him since he lost his voice a year ago, causing him to miss Google Inc.'s annual shareholders meeting in June and a conference...

Google's Knowledge Graph has a long, long way to go. At least according to Google CEO Larry Page. "We're still in the early stages," Page said on Google's fourth-quarter 2012 earnings call. "We're still at one percent of where we should be. " Knowledge Graph is Google's attempt to provide answers beyond simple keywords and queries. Answers, for instance, that an intelligent person or entity might provide and that demonstrate some degree of understanding of...

Just as Google is celebrating its 10th anniversary, a man claiming to be the "third" founder of Google has come out to stake his claim to history. In the video above, a man calling himself Hubert Chang claims that as an NYU Ph.D student in 1997 he was introduced to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin by Stanford professor Rajeev Motwani. He then helped the two come up with PageRank (the underlying algorithm that powers Google's search engine), the name Google, and even the business plan.

As mentioned in the company's Q1 earnings statement today, Google is working on a new stock structure that will effectively amount to a 2-for-1 split: existing shareholders will receive one share of a new non-voting class for each share they presently own — and this year's Founders' Letter from Larry Page and Sergey Brin is focused on defending the move. Much of the defense rides on a reference in a similar letter from 2004 — around the time of the company's blockbuster...

From legal battles to tablet launches and the rise of mobile, 2012 was a mixed bag for big tech companies and consumers. Here's a look at the highlights (and lowlights) of the year: Apple Apple had quite the year, refreshing the majority of its product lines, dealing with a controversy or two and fighting off competition. The company was also the subject of close scrutiny, as investors and others obsessively analyzed Tim Cook's first year as chief executive officer. Legal battles, new competitors and expectations have all buffeted...

Google has had a strong year in 2012, watching its Android mobile platform continue grow and taking some interesting steps into hardware. Larry Page celebrated a year as chief executive in April and received generally high marks for his performance. The company sparred often -- and continues to battle -- with regulators on both sides of the ocean, which may change how it does business in the future. But Google had plenty to celebrate, too, with the introduction of a new Android...