Egypt Google Executive

• Arrest of Google Brazil head stirs debate over Web

  The arrest of a top Google executive is reviving a debate about Brazilian laws that hold services such as YouTube responsible for the videos posted on them, making the country a hotbed of attempts to stifle digital content.

• Google executive kissed soldiers on release

  Released after 12 days in custody, Egyptian cyber activist Wael Ghonim kissed the soldiers who had kept him blindfolded and given him the occasional beating."I removed my blindfold and I said, 'Hi,' and kissed every one of them," the Google marketing executive for the Middle East said in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" aired yesterday. "All of...

• Ready to die for Revolution 2.0, says Google executive

  "It is no longer the time to negotiate" with the Egyptian government, said Google executive Wael Ghonim, one of the principal organisers of the massive anti-Hosni Mubarak protests for which he is "ready to die".Ghonim described the huge protests against President Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt for nearly 30 years, as an "Internet revolution".He told ...

• How a Google executive became a Cairo icon

  The television host narrated the pictures of the dead protesters on the screen, young men with sweet smiles whom she compared to roses in a garden."They went out only for the sake of Egypt," said the host, Mona el-Shazly. "They said what the previous generations couldn't do, we can do."Her guest was the newly freed Google executive and activist Wae...

• Freed Google executive helped spark Egypt revolt

  The young Google Inc. executive detained by Egyptian authorities for 12 days said Monday he was behind the Facebook page that helped spark what he called "the revolution of the youth of the Internet." A U.S.-based human rights group said nearly 300 people have died in two weeks of clashes. Wael Ghonim, a marketing manager for the Internet comp...

• Google executive released in Egypt

  Egyptian authorities on Monday released an executive from the US software giant Google arrested last week during protests against President Hosni Mubarak's regime, a security official told AFP.Wael Ghoneim, an Egyptian who is Google's head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa, was seized on January 28 in Cairo's Tahrir Square after he ...

• Optimism about missing Google executive in Egypt

  After disappearing in Egypt more than a week ago, leaving an ominous message on his Twitter account, Wael Ghonim, who leads Google's marketing efforts for the Middle East and North Africa, is expected to be released by Egyptian authorities to his family on Monday afternoon, a friend of the Ghonim family said Sunday night."We are not confident, but ...