Keegy United States - sergey-brin - Did Mrs. Google's Company Curl Into the Googleplex To Die?

Did Mrs. Google's Company Curl Into the Googleplex To Die?

For a company with deep support from Google, 23andMe seems awfully beset by problems: Two layoff rounds in five months and the departure of a co-founder. So when we hear the company is "hemorrhaging cash," we're inclined to believe it. The genetics-testing startup, co-founded by Anne Wo...

0 Comments Bury

Valleywag — 4 days ago

2 Votes vote

Chrome, Not Chromium, For Mac Has That Solid Feel

We’ve spent the past several months closely tracking the progress of Chrome for Mac. Well over a year after its release for Windows, there hasn’t been so much as a beta version for Mac (or Linux, for that matter) yet. Even Google co-founder Sergey Brin expressed his displeasure with t...

0 Comments Bury

TechCrunch — October 27

2 Votes vote

How to Blow $3.5 Billion

Yahoo finally shuttered Geocities today. Acquired in 1999, Geocities was one of the costliest dot-com duds of of all time: $3.5 billion for an ugly, cash-bleeding homepage hosting service. And to think Google's founders were simultaneously begging server funds. Yahoo had a shot at acquiring or in...

0 Comments Bury

Valleywag — October 26

2 Votes vote

What Gets a Freaky Google Overlord Excited at Night

Google co-founder Sergey Brin is a weird guy. A smart programmer whose ideas lifted humanity, but a weird guy nonetheless. A coder who dislikes coffee. An American who knows virtually nothing about baseball. And then there are his evening jollies. In response to a question about "what keeps ...

0 Comments Bury

Valleywag — October 26

6 Votes vote

Sergey Brin: Chrome for Mac still unstable

As the saying goes, good things come to those who wait. If that’s true, Google’s Chrome Web browser for Mac should be great. The wait will have to go on a bit longer, says Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who made a surprise visit to the Web 2.0 Summit and took the question about the b...

0 Comments Bury

Btl — October 23

0 Votes vote

Web 2 2009

Literally some of the best work I've ever been involved with, yet again, six years in. Many of you asked for the playlist I used for the show (coverage best seen at #w2s, lots of news happened at the event, including Sergey Brin stopping by). Here's a screen shot of my playlist. I'll make it live...

Bury

John Bat...archblog — October 23