Looking ahead

Looking Ahead: News to watch in the weeks to come

Google turns 10

September 7: Stanford University Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergei Brin formally incorporated their computer science research project on this date in 1998. The pair ran the fledgling company from a friend's garage in a small San Francisco Bay-area house. A decade later, Google is worth nearly $180 billion.

MTV Video Music Awards

September 7: The live television audience for the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles won't have Britney Spears to kick around anymore. Even after last year's embarrassing lip-synched performance, some had speculated Spears would make a return to this year's awards show: A rumor her manager put to rest in late August.