Larry Page


Lawrence E. Page

The majority of Page's fortune is held in Google, the publicly traded search engine company he co-founded with Sergey Brin in 1998. Page is the company's CEO, a title he claimed from billionaire Eric Schmidt in 2011. Together, Brin and Page own about 16 percent of the company. Page has sold more than $3.5 billion of Google stock since 2004.

Larry Page News

  • Facebook’s Zuckerberg Meets Samsung to Discuss Partnerships

    Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to boost advertising sales from mobile devices, discussed potential partnerships with Samsung Electronics Co., according to the head of the South Korean company’s handset division.

  • Google Glass Faces Scrutiny From Privacy Watchdogs Globally

    Google Inc. was asked by global data protection regulators to explain how it will protect the privacy of people viewed by users of the company’s Web-enabled eyeglasses.

  • Google Settles Investor Lawsuit Over Common Stock Split

    Google Inc., operator of the world’s largest Internet search engine, settled a lawsuit on the brink of trial over a plan for a stock split that shareholders claimed would unfairly allow founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to strengthen their corporate control.

  • U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms

    Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said.

  • Does Google Have an Ethical Obligation Not to Spy?

    Many Americans are outraged at the government for mining user data from Apple, Google, Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants. What about the actions of the companies themselves -- have they met their ethical obligations to their customers and society as a whole? Do they even have any?

  • Apple to Yahoo Deny Providing Direct Access to Spy Agency

    U.S. technology providers from Apple Inc. to Yahoo! Inc. said they don’t give the U.S. government direct access to their systems, responding to newspaper reports of a top-secret electronic surveillance program.

  • Google ‘Internship’ Set to Flop in Vaughn-Wilson Reunion

    News Corp.’s new comedy “The Internship” features Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, a cameo by Google Inc.’s Sergey Brin and access to the search leader’s Silicon Valley campus. It won’t be enough to turn a profit.

  • Google's Overhauled Search Page Has New Tools, New Look

    Every day, 268 million people use Google Inc. tools to search for something. The query goes in, the company’s software delivers back the most relevant links.

  • Google’s Page Describes Speech Malady, Funds Research

    Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Page disclosed a health condition that can result in hoarse speech and labored breathing, though according to doctors won’t impede him from running the Web-search provider.

  • Google Rises as Page Updates Music to Maps Services

    Google Inc. shares rose to a record after the company unveiled a subscription music-streaming service and overhauled its online maps, part of several product updates aimed at attracting more users and advertisers.

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