San Francisco: Google CEO Larry Page has disclosed a problem with his vocal cords that makes it difficult for him to speak and breathe occasionally, but he says he remains fit enough to keep running the Internet's most influential company.
The explanation that Page posted Tuesday on his Google Plus profile cleared up a mystery hanging over him since he lost his voice a year ago, causing him to miss Google's annual shareholders meeting in June and a conference call to discuss the company's quarterly earnings in July.
Page, 40, the company's co-founder and CEO for the past two years, says his left vocal cord has been paralyzed since coming down with a severe cold 14 years ago, while Google was still in its formative stages. That issue was compounded last year with another cold that Page says impaired his right vocal cord, though it still has limited movement.
Page's unavailability last year spooked investors, especially those who remembered Apple's initial refusal to disclose the extent of co-founder Steve Jobs' health problems. Jobs took two formal medical leaves as Apple's CEO before resigning from the job about six weeks before his death from cancer. When Page had his health issue, Google had simply said Page was dealing with a throat problem that wouldn't get in the way of his job....
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San Francisco: Google CEO Larry Page and his longtime partner Sergey Brin limited their salaries to $1 apiece last year, while four other top executives received combined compensation packages totaling more than $124 million. The breakdown disclosed in a regulatory filing Wednesday consisted mostly of stock awards that could ultimately be worth more or less money, depending on how Google's stock price fares in the future. Google Inc. also paid...
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05:25 PM, Apr 23, 2013
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09:11 PM, Apr 03, 2013
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11:59 PM, Mar 25, 2013
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12:52 PM, Mar 25, 2013
The star studded night with some stellar performances by Bollywood actors made Femina Miss India all the more a memorable affair. ...
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07:49 AM, Mar 25, 2013
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03:07 PM, Feb 27, 2013
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03:49 PM, Feb 19, 2013
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05:43 PM, Dec 06, 2012
An actress who said she was duped into appearing in an anti-Islam film that stoked violent protests against the United States across the Muslim world on Friday lost her second legal bid to force the video off of YouTube. ...
12:07 PM, Dec 01, 2012
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