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Playboy interview puts UKpound 20 Billion Google float in jeopardy.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2004
By James Quinn, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 14--Google's founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page could end up buying back shares currently being auctioned after an ill-timed interview in Playboy.
The latest twist in the internet search engine's UKpound 20 billion float sees the pair facing investigation for comments from an inter-view published just hours before the auction began yesterday.
In the September edition of the magazine, Brin and Page gave updates on the capacity of Google's Gmail service, current staff numbers and the number of users.
Although the interview was given on April 22, before Google filed its float registration documents, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has strict...
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