Did anything leak in this case? The quotes in the article are from public Google+ posts by Vic Gundotra and Larry Page:

https://plus.google.com/+VicGundotra/posts/MFrDF3W4RJL

https://plus.google.com/+LarryPage/posts/A2gm48nzitx

They're written to be leaked. They are very effective press releases without the costs of going through a wire.

In some cases, the wording is changed so HR can lock down who sent it out, and then discipline that person.

Perhaps 99.9% of them don't leak.

Politics you know the 8th layer of the OSI stack :-)

Normally some one has a line they want to run and have their friends in the media to spin stuff to its the same in politics.

I'm laughing so hard at this. I'm definitely stealing this and using this later!

It's impossible to keep a secret among thousands of people. Whoever sends a memo to everyone@bigcorp must assume that it reaches dozens of journalists' buddies, moles of the competition, perhaps even spies of foreign nations and definitely hundreds of folks who will bellow about it in bars in the evening.

How do you know they all leak?