Tag: Sergei Brin Sun, May 19, 2013

• TECH UPDATE: Google Execs Under Microscope

  Business Jun 13, 2012, by Silicon Valley Newsroom
  

  Courtesy of SV411.com, here’s a quick rundown of the latest technology news in Silicon Valley, including a new Facebook platform called Airtime, the social network’s new app store, Google executives under suspicion for some shady activity and Meg Whitman taking a long view of HP’s recovery.

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• Google and Gates Take on Big Oil in Prop 23 Debate

  BusinessEnvironmentPolitics Oct 26, 2010, by Danny Wool

  Google’s Sergei Brin and Microsoft’s Bill Gates are donating millions of dollars to defeat Prop 23, the ballot initiative which would suspend the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Spending for and against the contentious measure could top the $154 million record set in 2006 by Proposition 87. In the past two weeks alone, opponents of Prop 23 have raised $11.9 million.

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