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Brad Stone feature for Businessweek, “Inside Google’s Secret Lab”: While Teller runs the day-to-day operations at X, he reports to Brin. (“Sergey is Bruce Wayne, and I’m Lucius Fox,” Teller says.) Colleagues say that since Page became CEO in late 2011, Brin spends most of his time immersed in the technical details of several projects at Google X. Show More Summary
Sergey Brin's Complete Vision For How Self-Driving Cars Could Make Everything So Much Better (GOOG)
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is dedicating most of his time to self-driving cars, he tells Brad Stone of Bloomberg Businessweek. Brin had been working on Google Glass, but he says it's "basically done." So it's on to the next thing....Show More Summary
Google X Acquires Makani Power And Its Airborne Wind Turbines
After previously investing into the company, Google has now acquired Makani Power, a green energy startup that is currently building airborne wind turbines. The acquisition was first reported in Brad Stone’s Businessweek story about Google X and judging from Stone’s story, the team will join Google X. Show More Summary
Amazon Is Planning To Release A Set-Top Box Like Apple TV (AMZN)
Amazon is planning a set top box for video streaming, Brad Stone at Bloomberg reports. The set-top box is going to used to push Amazon's streaming services. It sounds like a rival to Apple's current Apple TV, or the Roku box. More to come... Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story »
eBay Inc (EBAY): Its Long Term Bet
“India is one of the world’s most promising and problematic Internet markets,” wrote Brad Stone and Kartikay Mehrotra in a recent Businessweek article. They’re spot on. The combination of very undeveloped Internet and e-commerce infrastructure; adoption of Internet-connected devices in droves; and a massive population of 1 billion people all set the stage for opportunity — [...]
eBay's Very Long-Term Bet
"India is one of the world's most promising and problematic Internet markets," wrote Brad Stone and Kartikay Mehrotra in a recent Businessweek article. They're spot on. The combination of very undeveloped Internet and e-commerce infrastructure;...Show More Summary
Friday Flash: Pandora home search, and what Facebook’s newsfeed update means for real estate
Why haven’t companies like Zillow, Trulia, Redfin and ZipRealty truly disrupted the real estate brokerage model?Brad Stone at Bloomberg Businessweek … Read more
Holiday decorators ask: ‘What would Clark Griswold do?’
Brad Stone's Christmas decorations in Edmond, Okla. (Photo courtesy of Brad Stone) Gone are the Christmases past when Dad strung a few measly yards of colored lights along the porch and, if he felt ambitious, staked a plastic Frosty the Snowman in the frozen front yard. A 21st-century Christmas, in contrast, boasts countless houses festooned [...]
SMooCH at the Triple Door
This Friday the 7th, the fine folks at KEXP are hosting a diverse lineup of local musicians at the Triple Door for the first annual SMooCH (Seattle Musicians for Children’s Hospital) Show! There will be an auction, and Brad (Stone Gossard...Show More Summary
BRI Receives Grand Challenges Explorations Grant
BRI announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Brad Stone, PhD, Principal Investigator for the grant, will pursue a research project entitled "Rapid Vaccine Development Using Synthetic Minigene Libraries."
Steve Jobs Wanted To Drop Google Search From The iPhone (AAPL, GOOG)
Interesting nugget from Brad Stone, Adam Satariano, and Peter Burrows at Bloomberg BusinessWeek: At the time of his death, Jobs had come to loathe Google, which he felt was copying features of the iPhone while withholding a key feature of Google Maps that allows smartphones to dictate turn-by-turn directions aloud. Show More Summary
Times Change
From a 2008 story by Brad Stone for the NYT: There’s a reason that R.I.M. is averse to the iPhone’s glass pad. “I couldn’t type on it and I still can’t type on it, and a lot of my friends can’t type on it,” says Mike Lazaridis, R.I.M.’s co-chief executive and technological visionary. Show More Summary
Larry Page's soul
Our soul is the same. – Larry Page to BusinessWeek’s Brad Stone, on his belief that Google hasn’t really changed since it made its motto “Don’t be evil”
Google’s Page Sees Company’s ‘Soul’ Intact, Says Bloomberg Biz Week
In case you missed it, Bloomberg Businessweek‘s Brad Stone today offers up a Q&A with Google (GOOG) CEO Larry Page, roaming over a number of topics, from the competition in tablet computers to his job improving the “accountability” of the company’s Android efforts. Of Android, Page includes it among “long-term bets” the company has made, [...]
LARRY PAGE: Steve Jobs' Fury Over Android Was All 'For Show' (AAPL, GOOG)
Here's an odd comment from Google CEO Larry Page on Steve Jobs' rage over Android.
He gave an interview to Bloomberg BusinessWeek's Brad Stone to commemorate his one year anniversary as CEO.
At the end, Stone asks, "According to the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, when you became CEO you went to Jobs for advice. Show More Summary
WATCH OUT GOOGLE: Facebook Has An Ex-Googler And Two Dozen Engineers Working On Search (GOOG)
Facebook is working on revamp of its search product, report Douglas MacMillan and Brad Stone of Bloomberg BusinessWeek:
About two dozen Facebook engineers, led by a former Google engineer named Lars Rasmussen, are working on an improved...Show More Summary
The State Of Twitter In 10 Bullet Points
Brad Stone has a long story about Twitter in Bloomberg BusinessWeek today. If you aren't familiar with Twitter, it is absolutely worth reading. If you are, here's the gist of it: Twitter does, in fact, have advertisements, and Dick Costolo...Show More Summary
Bloomberg Businessweek's Cover Shows All Of The Ways Twitter's Bird Has Contemplated Suicide
Next week, Bloomberg Businessweek's cover story will be about Twitter. Written by Brad Stone, the teaser reads: "Twitter, The company that couldn't kill itself has finally turned a corner."The graphic shows Twitter's bird contemplating...Show More Summary
ERIC SCHMIDT: We Don't Talk About Occupy Wall Street In The Valley Because We Don't Have Those Problems
Google chairman Eric Schmidt says that people in Silicon Valley don't talk about the concerns of the 99% because a lot of them are immune to those concerns.
He told Brad Stone at BusinessWeek, "Occupy Wall Street isn’t really something...Show More Summary
Businessweek Profiles Scott Forstall
Adam Satariano, Peter Burrows and Brad Stone: Some former associates of Forstall, none of whom would comment on he record for fear of alienating Apple, say he routinely takes credit for collaborative successes, deflects blame for mistakes, and is maddeningly political. Show More Summary
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