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Today in Tech: Is Facebook worth $104 billion?

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"Regardless of how you feel about digital ecosystems or about Google, please do not take the free and open internet for granted from government intervention. To the extent that free flow of information threatens the powerful, those in power will seek to suppress it." -- Google co-founder Sergey Brin (Google+)

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Today in Tech: 850,000 Android devices activated each day now

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* On his first anniversary as Google CEO, Larry Page shared some new company numbers: 850,000 Android devices are activated daily, Google Chrome browser has 200 million-plus users, and Gmail has over 350 million users, with more than 5,000 new businesses and educational establishments signing up each day. (GigaOm)

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What Google needs now? To wow again

Larry Page has successfully refocused the company on its core products. What he needs to do now is recapture some of the firm's early magic with bold new products.

By Kevin Kelleher, contributor

FORTUNE – When was the last time Google did something dazzling?

For a company that turns 14 this summer, Google (GOOG) has a history thick with moments when it surprised the web -- many outlined on the company's site, starting in MORE

Google's Susan Wojcicki: Where we're heading

Nearly all the company's revenues come from products like AdSense. Now, Senior Vice President of Ads Susan Wojcicki weighs on where Google advertising is headed. By JP Mangalindan

The problem with the founder's letter

Like Google and Groupon, Facebook's letter expressed a defiant idealism that -- eventually -- must confront the realities of business.

By Kevin Kelleher, contributors

FORTUNE – For Internet companies going public, the founder's letter is becoming a ritual with a purely symbolic value, a rite of passage into the adulthood of public markets. Larry Page and Sergey Brin started it when Google (GOOG) went public in 2004. Andrew Mason raised it to MORE

Google: The thrill is back

Disappointing quarter aside, it's too early to tell whether Google is fundamentally doing better or worse under Larry Page. But the company is more focused, more willing to take risks and -- for the first time in years -- more interesting.

By Kevin Kelleher, contributor

FORTUNE -- It may be unfair to grade a work in progress, but in the case of a closely watched company like Google, it's inevitable. In the MORE

Today in Tech: Fortune's exclusive Google CEO Q&A

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* In an exclusive interview with Fortune, Larry Page, Google's original CEO, who reassumed the position a year ago, talks about the "family" environment Google (GOOG) tries to encourage, how it differs from his own grandfather's workplace, and how free food encourages people to eat less. (Fortune)

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Larry Page: Google should be like a family

In an exclusive Q&A, Google's co-founder and CEO explains how he built a No. 1 workplace -- and why it matters.

FORTUNE -- Almost since the day it set up shop in a garage, Google has been known as one of the world's best places to work -- if you could get your foot in the door. Crazy-free perks were the reward for graduates of elite schools who had high MORE

Larry Page steals a captain

FORTUNE -- It's warfare on the high seas! Not quite, but the moneyed yachties of the world were abuzz when Google's (GOOG) Larry Page recently got himself a skipper for his 194-foot motor yacht Senses. The new captain is Chris Gartner, who was lured away from the Maltese Falcon, the futuristic clipper ship owned by Elena Ambrosiadou, the European hedge fund billionaire. The Falcon's prior owner and builder was Tom MORE

Today in Tech: Redbox and Verizon's Netflix killer

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"By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded in it."
-- An optimistic Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman (paidContent)

* Verizon (VZ) and Redbox are reportedly working together on a Netflix-like service that will enable TV and movie streaming and MORE