Word: sergey
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...Part of it is the softer edge of technology. Few people believe that Microsoft’s dubious dealings in the 90s were truly acting against the public interest. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page unseated MSN and Yahoo with a mere algorithm—proof of the economy’s democratic nature. Tech fortunes just seem less exploitative, built on mainframes and lines of code rather than the backs of unskilled laborers...
...very few of the very rich have some awareness of the emptiness--if not the medieval corruption--of ransoming one's sins. Sergey Brin, zillionaire founder of Google, buys carbon credits to offset the ghastly amount of carbon dioxide emitted by Google's private Boeing 767 but confesses he's not sure if it really does anything...
...season, Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), with Music Director James Yannatos conducting, played music linked by the recurring themes of conflict and tragedy. The talents of the members of the orchestra were showcased as the concert featured the intricate rhythms of works by Hsueh-Yung Shen ’73, Sergey Prokofiev, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.The evening performance opened with welcoming remarks by the president of HRO, Chrix E. Finne ’07. Making note of the families in attendance for freshman parents’ weekend, Finne cheerfully reminded parents that while they could not capture memorable moments with flash...
...Sergey Bogdanchikov would like you to meet Rosneft, a thoroughly modern, reliable Russian oil company with impeccable management and enormous profit potential. That, at least, is the pitch that Bogdanchikov, Rosneft's president, has been making vigorously to investors over the past few weeks, hoping to lure them into a stock listing in London and Moscow later this month that could raise as much as $11.7 billion, making the company worth up to $80 billion. It seems like a compelling story: Rosneft's oil reserves are vast, its costs are low by international standards, and the fact that it will...
...sell out early if you believe your company is going to be huge and going to change the world,” Battelle said, citing the example of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who declined to sell their site in its infancy. Both are now worth an estimated $11 billion each, according to Forbes magazine...