The press-shy Google CEO talks about mobile computing, his tussles with Apple -- and the future of search.
FORTUNE -- Last month, Larry Page sat down with Fortune Senior Writer Miguel Helft for a lengthy interview for a forthcoming Fortune magazine article. It was only Page's second wide-ranging conversation with a print publication since becoming CEO of Google in April 2011. The 70-minute discussion covered, among other things, Page's take on MORE
Miguel Helft, senior writer - Dec 11, 2012 5:00 AM ET
Unreal Brands, a Boston-based company with millions in backing from renowned tech investor Khosla Ventures and others, wants to find out.
FORTUNE -- Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen are fans. So are Matt Damon, John Legend, and Jack Dorsey, the tech entrepreneur of Square and Twitter fame. Later this week, you may get a chance to find out what all these celebs are fussing about.
As you sift through your kids' Halloween MORE
Miguel Helft, senior writer - Oct 29, 2012 11:12 AM ET
Spectacular mobile and ad growth is pulling the company out of the doll-drums.
FORTUNE -- Did Facebook go public at the worst possible time? Buyers and sellers in the IPO will answer that question differently, of course. But there's little doubt that Facebook went public when uncertainty about its business prospects was near its peak.
Tech investors typically bet on growth and this Spring, Facebook's (FB) growth rate was falling off a MORE
Miguel Helft, senior writer - Oct 24, 2012 7:21 AM ET
The premature release of disappointing earnings wasn't the only slip-up made by the search giant.
FORTUNE -- Did you hear about Google's premature announcement? No, not the mid-morning earnings release, hours ahead of schedule, which sent Google shares plummeting 9% before trading had to be halted on the Nasdaq.
On Thursday Google (GOOG) suffered from another untimely leak. As I sat inside Google's San Francisco office listening to a presentation on the MORE
Miguel Helft, senior writer - Oct 19, 2012 6:04 AM ET
While the Google CEO has been active inside the company, he hasn't participated in a public event in some time.
FORTUNE -- In his first public appearance in months, Larry Page, Google's co-founder and chief executive, said Tuesday that he hoped that ongoing conversations with regulators in the United States and Europe would help the company avoid a showdown over antitrust concerns.
Recent reports have suggested that the Federal Trade Commission may MORE
Miguel Helft, senior writer - Oct 16, 2012 9:00 PM ET
Ariba's co-founder is back - and he's trying to change the way you sign on the dotted line.
FORTUNE -- It's a boast you don't hear too often from CEOs: "I'm doing it for sport." Yet that's precisely what Keith Krach says drove him last year to become chief executive of DocuSign, a company that offers electronic-signature technology for transactions and document verification. "I never thought I'd go back and do MORE
Miguel Helft, senior writer - Oct 9, 2012 5:00 AM ET
The mobile payment startup founded by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has raised more than $200 million and doubled its valuation from a year ago.
FORTUNE -- After a fundraising process that lasted several months, Square, the fast growing mobile payments startup, said on Monday that it has raised more than $200 million in a new round of financing. The investment values the company at approximately $3.25 billion, according to a person with MORE
Miguel Helft, senior writer - Sep 17, 2012 9:00 AM ET
Microsoft tries a digital version of the Pepsi challenge to prove that users prefer its Bing search service to Google.
FORTUNE -- Since Microsoft released the Bing search engine in 2009, it has struggled to compete with Google. Most reviewers, and more importantly, most users, have consistently said that on average Google delivers superior results. While Bing's market share in the U.S. has nearly doubled to 15.4%, according to comScore, the MORE
Miguel Helft, senior writer - Sep 6, 2012 8:21 AM ET
With a new pricing structure, Jack Dorsey's mobile payments company Square is upending things -- again.
FORTUNE -- The heated battle for mobile payments just got more heated. On Thursday, Square, the pioneer in mobile point of sale systems, announced a new pricing model that gives merchants the option to pay a monthly fee of $275 instead of the current 2.75% fee on every transaction. Merchants who make more than $10,000 MORE
Miguel Helft, senior writer - Aug 16, 2012 2:11 PM ET
Yes, there was a social media bubble. And, yes, it popped. The question now is, what happens next?
FORTUNE -- There's no doubt as to when the dot-com bubble popped: it was on March 10, 2000, the day the Nasdaq peaked at 5,132.52. But when exactly did the social media bubble pop? Was it Nov. 23, when Groupon shares fell below their $20 IPO price or this week, when they neared MORE
Miguel Helft, senior writer - Aug 16, 2012 7:09 AM ET
Miguel Helft is a San Francisco-based Senior Writer at FORTUNE, where he covers Silicon Valley. He joined FORTUNE in August 2011 following a 5-year stint as a reporter at The New York Times covering companies like Apple, Facebook and Google. His knowledge of Silicon Valley and the tech world runs deep. He worked as a software engineer at Sun Microsystems in the late-1980s, and for the past 15 years, he has chronicled major industry events -- from the Microsoft antitrust trial to the dot-com boom and bust - at publications like the Industry Standard, the San Jose Mercury News and the Los Angeles Times. Born and raised in Argentina, Helft emigrated to the U.S. to attend Stanford University, where he earned a BA in Philosophy and a Master's in Computer Science.
