Saturday, February 18, 2012

Google’s Ex-Chairman plans to sell stock worth nearly $1.5 billion

According to the AP former Google CEO Eric Schmidt plans to sell up to 2.4 million shares of stock currently worth nearly $1.5 billion.

Schmidt, now Google's executive chairman, intends to stagger the sales of the stock over a one-year period. Google disclosed Schmidt's plans in a Friday regulatory filing. The company said Schmidt, 56, is trying to raise some money and diversify his investment portfolio. If all 2.4 million shares of stock are sold, that will reduce Schmidt's stake in Google Inc. from 2.8 percent to 2.1 percent.

Schmidt's decision to sell some of his shares comes 10 months after he ended his 10-year stint as Google's CEO and turned the job over to one of the Internet search leader's co-founders, Larry Page….

Read more at http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/6b63582e53824a4c983869ed3323f57d/US--Google-Stock-Sale/

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