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Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt says the Google founders have grown up."The boys have grown up," Schmidt said at a news conference before the company's annual meeting referring to founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took his bat and ball and headed back to Redmond, Yahoo's founding duo of Jerry Yang and David Filo saw nine-figure paper losses today.

The common belief that all entrepreneurs who start tech companies are in their 20s or teens is being challenged by a lengthy study that started in 1995 thru 2005 which found that only 1 percent of American founders were teenagers.The study by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and researchers at Duke and Harvard found that most U.S. born technology and engineering company founders are middle-aged, with the average and median age of 39.

The term “ridiculously wealthy” may still apply, but MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson have renewed their contracts with News Corp., and reports indicate that the pair won’t become quite as rich as they might have wanted.

Just as Rupert Murdoch and the News Corp apparatus pore over a potential deal for Dow Jones, MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson have submitted their pay requests for consideration.

I used to enjoy playing dodgeball, but it was one of those games in which someone’s feelings (and/or body) often got hurt.  Now the Internet service named Dodgeball has had a similar effect - its founders, Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert, have left Google, and the pair didn’t leave in the best of moods.

Usually when we talk about Google and personnel, it’s to report that the company has hired yet another big name, and it’s more than likely a major defection from a rival company.

The founders of Skype Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrm are close to launching their new Internet TV site, which is currently under the working name The Venice Project. Last year the pair sold their communications business to Ebay for $2.6 billion.