Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Once upon a time a pair of Stanford graduates in the area now known as Silicon Valley in California started one of the biggest technology companies in the world from a garage. You could be forgiven for thinking of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, who started Hewlett-Packard in 1939, but actually we were talking about Sergey Brin and Larry Page who started Google in 1998 - and Google has now bought the garage.
Brin and Page reportedly paid Susan Wojcicki
US$1700 a month rent for the garage and Ms Wojcicki ended up working
for the fledgling company, where today she is vice president of product
management.
Google intends to preserve the Menlo Park property as a historical
legacy of the company, much like its forerunner at HP. It is not known
whether Brin and Page were inspired by the example of HP when they
first rented the property.
However, reports say that the Google garage, which was equipped with a
hot tub, is becoming as much of a Silicon Valley tourist attraction as
the somewhat less lavish little wooden shed at 367 Addison Avenue, Palo
Alto.
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