Type Traded as Public NASDAQ: GOOG NASDAQ-100 Component S&P 500 Component Internet Computer software Telecoms equipment Menlo Park‚ California‚ U.S. (September 4‚ 1998) Larry Page‚ Sergey Brin Googleplex‚ Mountain View‚ California‚ United States Worldwide Eric Schmidt (Executive Chairman) Larry Page (Co-founder & CEO) Sergey Brin (Co-founder) Web Based Products‚ Operating Systems‚ Desktop Applications‚ Mobile Applications‚ Hardware‚ Services US$ 50.18 billion (2012) US$ 12.76 billion (2012) US$ 10
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Internet surfers. Larry Page‚ a PH.D student at Stanford started by as a research project in January 1996 that ended up as Google’s search engine. Larry was in search for a dissertation theme‚ among other things‚ exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web and understanding its link as a hug graph. Soon after Page and his partner Sergey Brin began exploring the web with their web crawler; which was dated March 1996. The location for the exploring was at Page’s own home page. On September
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Silicon Valley? The first meeting of these two actually took in March 1995 during a tour of San Francisco that Stanford had arranged for prospective graduate students in computer science. Sergey Brin‚ who had already spent a year in the graduate program‚ was acting as a tour guide for the group. Larry Page‚ who had been accepted into the Stanford program but had not decided whether to accept‚ was making a weekend visit to the university. After the first meeting‚ the two were not particularly
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of many stockholders like most companies‚ however‚ the founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page set up Google in a way that they will always be in control of the company. What Brin and Page did was set up a two class voting structure for stockholder’s ownership in the company. The founders Brin and Page have 10 votes for each share in Google‚ although the public will only get one vote for one share. Ultimately‚ this will keep Brin and Page in control of Google and eliminate the potential that someday the
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com/global/2005/1114/054A.html [Accessed 23 April 2013]. Salim‚ I.‚ 2011. Stuck in the Matrix: Where is Yahoo’s Neo? [blog] 12 September. Available at: http://gigaom.com/2011/09/12/stuck-in-the-matrix-where-is-yahoos-neo/ [Accessed 26 April 2013]. TED‚ 2004. Sergey Brin and Larry Page: The genesis of Google. [video online] Available at: http://www.ted.com/talks/sergey_brin_and_larry_page_on_google.html [Accessed 20 April 2013]. Mullins‚ L. J.‚ 2007. Management and Organisational Behaviour. 8thed. Harlow: Pearson/FT Prentice
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In today’s highly competitive market‚ the continuous changes that are occurring in the social‚ politic and economic environment create serious challenges in the corporate world. Corporations cannot afford to do business as usual if they want to remain in the game and be successful. In order to achieve their goals and objectives‚ they need to evolve‚ adapt‚ learn and apply different new strategies that will help them secure long-run success and performance. Among those strategies‚ we are going to
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At its core is google.com –the world’s top search engine. Google’s stated mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. Google was founded by two PhD candidates at Stanford University –Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It was incorporated on Sept. 4‚ 1998 and went public on Aug. 19‚ 2004. The company’s head courters are in Mountain View‚ California. Since its inception Google has experienced explosive growth and quickly emerged as the world’s premier
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16th‚ 2014 Introduction Google is a publicly traded company that was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google’s name derived from the mathematical word “googol‚” which is defined as the number one followed by one hundred zeros. Larry Page and Sergey Brin received a check in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars from Sun’s co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim to start-up Google. Google is headquartered in Mountain View
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company’s name was to reflect the companies mission to organize immense amounts of information available on the web(Google‚ 1). In 1995 Google was created by two young men‚ Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Mr. Page and Mr. Brin met while attending Stanford University as graduate students (Google‚ 1). Google lure has it that Mr. Page and Mr. Brin argued all the time about everything‚ but seemingly found that they had similar motives with respect to the information age and the Internet. As you will discover they
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Week 4 1. How do you think a small margin for error affects communication on a project? When there is a small margin for error communication can be affected. In the project for Ball Corporation there is absolutely no room for errors and everyone involved in the project knows it. Because there is no room for errors everyone is really detailed when sharing information and in delegating assignments. The employees force themselves to pay close attention to every detail because every little detail
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