Google sponsors &#36;30 million moon contest
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Google Inc. is bankrolling a $30 million out-of-this-world prize to the first private company that can safely land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images and video to Earth, the Internet search leader said Thursday.
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Google Inc.'s GOOG.O initial public offering of 19.6 million shares priced at &#36;85 each, the low end of their projected range, a source familiar with the auction said on Wednesday, raising &#36;1.67 billion and making it the fourth-largest U.S. IPO this year.
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Google has launched a program to help nonprofits use Google Earth to raise awareness of their missions and better demonstrate what they do
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GoogleÂs shares gained $14.60, or 3 percent, to close at $509.65, passing the $500 mark for the first time.
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Google.org incites others to share its love for plug-in hybrid vehicles and other cleaner forms.
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Google Inc. (GOOG) forged ahead with its IPO auction Friday, even as the online search engine leader acknowledged a newly published magazine interview with its founders contained misleading information.
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Probing X-Prizes Everyone is going to the moon. Japan has launched its first lunar probe, Selene, and the X-Prize foundation has persuaded Google to put up a $30m fund to reward any private enterprise that manages to land a probe in lunar-land.â¦
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Google Inc. on Friday will join the crowded field of services registering Web site addresses in a move aimed at encouraging more usage of the online search leader's free software products.
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Google Inc., on the last leg of its race to sell shares to the public, is facing more rivals, large and small, trying to unseat it as the Web's most popular search destination.
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NASA, seeking to give the public easy access to its massive trove of images and data about Earth and outer space, has entered into a formal agreement with Google to post material from the agency's many missions on the Internet. As the technology improves and the collaboration grows, officials said, viewers could one day be treated to live video from the moon, Mars and elsewhere....
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Science & environment: Billionaire and former colleague donate $30m for telescope that can provide early warning of asteroid crash
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Teams from around the world will vie for the Google Lunar X-Prize by building lunar missions complete with robotic rovers.
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The contest calls for entrants to land a rover on the moon that will be able to travel at least 550 yards and send high-resolution video, still images and other data back home.
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LOS ANGELES - Google Inc. is bankrolling a $30 million space flight contest for private companies to safely land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images and video to Earth.
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Google, the world&#39;s most-used Internet search engine, said its co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, each plan to sell $1.22 billion in company stock and Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will sell $372.7 million.
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Internet search leader Google Inc.  is worth &#36;200, Prudential Equity Group told investors on Friday, the day after the company published quarterly results that the broker labeled a "blowout."
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Google Inc., the most  popular Internet search engine, raised $1.67 billion on  Wednesday in its long-awaited IPO after slashing the price and  size of an offer beset by missteps and poor market conditions.