Google Founders in $6.1bn Sell-Off

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will share about $US5.5bn ($6.1bn) in cash under plans revealed at the weekend to lighten their stake in the internet search giant. Under a five-year stock trading plan, Mr Page and Mr Brin, who met at Stanford University in the US in 1995 before starting Google, each intend to sell about 5 million shares. The plan would cut their combined holding from about 18 per cent to 15 per cent and reduce their voting stake from 59 per cent to about 48 per cent