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Larry Page was born on March 26, 1973 in East Lansing, Michigan. -
Page grew up in a creative house with computers, tech magazines and gadgets everywhere. Both of his parents were computer science professors, so since childhood Page has been obsessed with computers. -
Page graduated from East Lansing High School in 1991. -
Page recived a computer engineering degree from the University of Mighigan in 1995. Later he entered into the doctorate program at Stanford University. -
Page met Brin in 1996 at Stanford University where they were both doctoral students in the computer science program. -
Google was founded ion September 4, 1998 in Menlo Park California. -
Google bought Youtube in 2006 for $1.65 billion in a stock for stock transaction. -
A failed Google product is Google Health. Google Health was intended to help keep your healthcare records. It was shut down because of privacy concerns related to thr HIPAA and lack of users.
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Google released Google Chrome the word browser in September of 2008. Google Chrome was build for Microsoft Windows and had a free built in software components for Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. -
Android operating system was created for use on mobile devices. -
Larry Page became CEO of Google on April 4, 2011. At this time Google had over $180 billion market capitalization and more than 24,000 employees. -
Google Dive was introduced April 24, 2012 with available for Windows, MacOS, and Android, as well as a website interface. -
Google improved its logo in 2015 with a change in its typeface. -
The Google Pixel phone was launched on October 4, 2016. -
Larry Page today is on the Alphabet board and is a controlling shareholder. -
Google won 3 awards in 2024. The awards were Best Company Compensation, Best Company Perks Benefits and Best Global Culture 2024.