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Google's Larry Page Urges Scientists to Market Themselves

Speaking at a convention in Feb 2007, Google co-founder Larry Page advised the scientists to market the technologies better and make it readily available to the world, and this way they can solve problems such as energy consumption, poverty and global warming.

He felt that Science has a marketing problem. There may be the best products one creates in the lab, but without marketing it becomes a failure if no one knows about it. The Scientists should expend part of their research budget in marketing and spread the word. Blogs and Networking can help also, in his opinion

Read the full report on this from Digital Journal

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Sergey Brin & Larry Page to Get One-dollar Salary in 2007

The three billionaire bosses of Google - Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt - are to earn just $1 in salary this year, according to a filing with the Securities Exchange Commission.

The decision marks the third consecutive year that Schmidt, Google's chief executive, and co-founders Page and Brin have limited their salaries to $1 only.

In spite of this, it is unlikely that they will find it hard to pay their grocery bills!

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