DailyLead: Google going on a space adventure
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Tariq Ali
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Published on 06/11/2008
- Space Adventures, space tourism company, reported that Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants to go to space and has made a $5 million down payment to book a seat on a private space flight.
According to Space Adventure CEO Eric Anderson, the full price is likely to be more than $35 million. But the $5 million down payment "gives members first option on a seat on the mission."
Anderson said Brin, who was not present, could choose to fly on the 2011 mission or on one of the subsequent private missions, depending on his schedule.
- Online search engine chief Eric Schmidt says there is a 'moral imperative' to help newspapers, and Google's DoubleClick can give them the aid they need.
"Google also has a financial incentive to bolster newspapers because the stories, pictures and other content that they distribute online creates more opportunities for the company to make money from short advertising links that appear on millions of Web pages each day."
- Schmidt reiterated his belief that advertising on mobile devices eventually will emerge as Google's biggest source of profits. The company hopes to be in a better position to deliver ads to people on the go during the second half of this year, when it's scheduled to unveil its new mobile-software package, called "Android."
"Google's plans to make Android available to wide variety of mobile handsets have caused conflicts for Schmidt in his role as a director of Apple Inc., which makes the popular iPhone. Schmidt said he has had to excuse himself from "one or two" Apple board meetings involving the iPhone, which he said currently accounts for a "vast majority" of mobile traffic on Google's search engine."
- Zillow.com, the real-estate Web site founder launched a new job and career site, Glassdoor.com, "that includes compensation figures for jobs at specific companies, as well as reviews provided anonymously by employees. So far, the site has gathered about 2,000 salary reports and 1,300 employee-written reviews for more than 250 companies, many of them in the high-tech and financial industries."
"Glassdoor includes information on jobs at some of the nation's most high-profile employers. The average salary of a product manager at Google Inc., for example, is reported to be $129,400; software engineers earn just shy of $98,000. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment, except to say the company's salaries are competitive."
Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants to go to space and has made a $5 million down payment to book a seat on a private space flight.
Zillow.com CEO launched a new site that includes compensation figures.
Zillow.com CEO launched a new site that includes compensation figures.
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- Space Adventures, space tourism company, reported that Google co-founder Sergey Brin wants to go to space and has made a $5 million down payment to book a seat on a private space flight.
According to Space Adventure CEO Eric Anderson, the full price is likely to be more than $35 million. But the $5 million down payment "gives members first option on a seat on the mission."
Anderson said Brin, who was not present, could choose to fly on the 2011 mission or on one of the subsequent private missions, depending on his schedule.
- Online search engine chief Eric Schmidt says there is a 'moral imperative' to help newspapers, and Google's DoubleClick can give them the aid they need.
"Google also has a financial incentive to bolster newspapers because the stories, pictures and other content that they distribute online creates more opportunities for the company to make money from short advertising links that appear on millions of Web pages each day."
- Schmidt reiterated his belief that advertising on mobile devices eventually will emerge as Google's biggest source of profits. The company hopes to be in a better position to deliver ads to people on the go during the second half of this year, when it's scheduled to unveil its new mobile-software package, called "Android."
"Google's plans to make Android available to wide variety of mobile handsets have caused conflicts for Schmidt in his role as a director of Apple Inc., which makes the popular iPhone. Schmidt said he has had to excuse himself from "one or two" Apple board meetings involving the iPhone, which he said currently accounts for a "vast majority" of mobile traffic on Google's search engine."
- Zillow.com, the real-estate Web site founder launched a new job and career site, Glassdoor.com, "that includes compensation figures for jobs at specific companies, as well as reviews provided anonymously by employees. So far, the site has gathered about 2,000 salary reports and 1,300 employee-written reviews for more than 250 companies, many of them in the high-tech and financial industries."
"Glassdoor includes information on jobs at some of the nation's most high-profile employers. The average salary of a product manager at Google Inc., for example, is reported to be $129,400; software engineers earn just shy of $98,000. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment, except to say the company's salaries are competitive."