Sergey Brin

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...

It's after 8 p.m. on a school night, and all the players are gathered for their final practice before the big national competition. Sam Zbarsky, one of the team's stars, is warming up by stretching his arms overhead in a diamond shape. Charlie Pasternak and Alex Smith are huddled at a cafeteria table, strategizing. Captain Andrew Hu is working the room, pumping everyone up. The team members are cocky, and they have a right to be. Of the 16.6 million students enrolled in American high schools this year, they are...

Yesterday the  New York Times  revealed the existence of Google X — a playground for engineers working on the next generation of Google's wilder projects. However, the company is so secretive about the lab that very few employees are even aware of its existence, with one engineer likening the covert nature of the department to the CIA. Two teams split between the Mountain View campus and a top-secret location are reportedly toiling over "100...

Eric Walstein, who coached the Montgomery County Math Team for 36 years, on some of the group's most famous alumni: Sergey Brin, 38 Google co-founder. With a net worth of $18.7 billion, he is No. 24 in Forbes magazine's 2012 rankings of the world's billionaires. Brin, whose father was a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, was not one of the team's stars. "He happened not to be one of the top scorers, but he was a really nice guy, very funny," Walstein recalls.

Sergey Brin is holding an audience this morning with a roomful of journalists in New York City. Below are my live notes. Sergey Brin : We have had a number of interesting activities. A bunch of you saw the verizon announcement, android, software platform, more enhancements in terms of faster software, better software. A number of devices are coming out as a trickle, many more we expect. Google Books, a hearing today, but generally that is something I am very proud of, to make the world?

Remember back in September 2008 when Google co-founder Sergey Brin started a personal blog ? TechCrunch was the first to spot it , and it was interesting enough for the Wall Street Journal and the NY Times to pick up the story. Of course, it was the actual content of the second blog post (the one after the obligatory introduction one ) that was the real story there. After all, an executive of a major, public company sharing his genetic predisposition to Parkinson?

Google's Project Glass video showed a snapshot of what the future of gadgetry may be, but it's clear that the average consumer won't be seeing the Google glasses in stores any time soon. There is a real-world prototype, but you have to have some serious connections to get them. Technology blogger Robert Scoble posted pictures to his Twitter account Thursday of Google co-founder Sergey Brin sporting a pair of the glasses while out to dinner. "Sergey wouldn't let me wear the Google Glasses but I could...

Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) co-founder Sergey Brin told CNET that he expects the company's new Chrome browser to end up on the Android platform in a later version of the yet-to-be-released mobile phone operating system. Brin said Android and Chrome were developed separately but that a "subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack. " Like Chrome, Android's existing browser uses WebKit, an open-source project for HTML code. Of course, it was assumed...

Google has debuted the first video taken with its new set of eyewear from its Project Glass project. And for those of you who haven't been keeping up, Project Glass' sci-fi-looking glasses allow a person to do many of the same things you do with your smartphone, except without the need of a separate device. The eyewear will display user interfaces for different programs, allow you to snap pictures , and as we said, even record live video that is likely to cause nausea in some people upon...

Google co-founder Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today. He spoke briefly with John Battelle. Of note, Brin said that he's excited about Twitter's success because it's interesting for him to see entrepreneurs that succeed twice. Twitter co-founder Evan Williams first big break came when he sold Blogger to Google in 2003. It reaffirms the difference a good entrepreneur can make, Brin said. When asked if he had...

Google Chief Executive Sergey Brin took a turn onstage Wednesday at the company's developers conference, showing off the latest news from the Google Glass team. The big announcement: Google Glass will be available for pre-order to U.S.-based developers — not consumers — who attended the show and will cost $1,500. The devices will be shipped early next year to those early developers who want to try it out. Google Glass, for those who need a refresher course, is Google's, well, glasses, which act as a heads-up display and a video camera...

Sergey Brin hasn't been afraid of taking Google's Project Glass augmented reality prototype out on the town . Most recently, Brin brought Project Glass to an interview with California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom on The Gavin Newsom Show — in a short clip, Brin actually lets Newsom try Project Glass on for himself. In a quick exchange, Brin tells Newsom how he just took a photo without his interviewer even noticing; Newsom wanted proof, so Brin just let him try the...

Google has debuted the first video taken with its new set of eyewear from its Project Glass project. And for those of you who haven't been keeping up, Project Glass' sci-fi-looking glasses allow a person to do many of the same things you do with your smartphone, except without the need of a separate device. The eyewear will display user interfaces for different programs, allow you to snap pictures , and as we said, even record live video that is likely to cause nausea in...

With Facebook now on the market with a $104 billion valuation, how will the brainchild of co-founder Mark Zuckerberg move ahead as a public company? At 28, Zuckerberg has seen the project he began building with other students in a college dorm room become the subject of an Oscar-nominated film, the focus of frenzied investors and a central part of the daily lives of nearly 1 billion users — 901 million, at last count. His personal stake in Facebook is now worth around $19.1 billion, making him richer...

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...

Google shares were up 2.4 percent in after hours trading following the company's Thursday report that its revenue climbed 24 percent to $10 billion, beating analyst estimates. Net income for the quarter was $2.89 billion, up $1.8 billion from the same period last year. The company also announced that it would authorize a 2-for-1 stock split, which the company said would "preserve the corporate structure that has allowed Google to remain focused on the long term. " The move is a dividend...

A June 12 Business article, "When the Earth Is Not Enough," reported that Google's president, Sergey Brin, put down a $5 million deposit for a trip on a Soviet spacecraft. Such flights have been estimated to produce about 150 tons of carbon dioxide per passenger. That is comparable to using 15,000 gallons of gasoline, based on figures from DrivingGreen.com, or enough gas to drive about 225,000 miles in a Hummer. Does Google care about global warming? RICHARD REIS Silver Spring

Thank goodness Google's working on the really important stuff, like adding sound effects to SearchWiki , instead of releasing the promised off button to that dreaded service . Although, I have to admit it's pretty cool. To add the sound effect, turn this Google experiment on and delete a search result in Google search (you have to have SearchWiki turned on). It makes a Desktop Tower Defense like sound, recorded by co-founder Sergey Brin himself. Check it out in the video below.

Google gave us a peek at what it's got in its secret Google X labs when it released information on the augmented reality glasses it's been working on under the name Project Glass. But Google's labs have been a subject of interest for months, since news about the secret ideas laboratory came out in the New York Times last November. So what else is Google rumored to have on tap at its clandestine research facility? One idea that's been written about quite a bit is the self-driving car, which got a lot of press recently when Google ...

Google's Project Glass video showed a snapshot of what the future of gadgetry may be, but it's clear that the average consumer won't be seeing the Google glasses in stores any time soon. There is a real-world prototype, but you have to have some serious connections to get them. Technology blogger Robert Scoble posted pictures to his Twitter account Thursday of Google co-founder Sergey Brin sporting a pair of the glasses while out to dinner. "Sergey wouldn't let me wear the Google Glasses but I...