At yesterday’s Google Zeitgeist conference in Arizona, CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed that the company will roll out a new social service, internally dubbed Google Me, sometime later this year. They basically want to give your web a social booster shot.
Whoa. TechCrunch reports that Google has invested between $US100 and $US200 million in Zynga, the social gaming behemoth behind Farmville, Mafia Wars, and others, in preparation for the launch of Google Games later this year.
You know the names Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates — the giants behind Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. But at those companies and others, there’s a whole class of executives kicking rear without due recognition.
