Zvue, a maker of video players and operator of websites like eBaum's World and Dorks.com, has a post-Halloween deadline to make $1.9 million in payments to a hedge-fund lender. Also owed money: The company's chief technology officer, Carl Page, the older brother of Google cofounder Larry Page, who has loaned his employer at least $4.9 million, including $1 million in July. Could bankruptcy be in the cards? If so, it would be quite a reversal for the elder Page.A decade ago, Carl looked like the more successful brother, having sold eGroups, a company he cofounded, to Yahoo for $432 million. But Carl's efforts to repeat his success, and come anywhere close to Larry's, have made him a buffoon. Zvue shut down its San Francisco Web operations in July, leaving its collection of funny-if-you're-15-years-old websites to Eric Bauman, the creator of eBaum's World. Bauman is also owed millions by Zvue, for fare like "Ass Cream Vendor."

Ah, wait, maybe this is why Google Finance pussyfoots around Handheld Entertainment. Carl Page, Handheld co-founder and brother of Google co-founder Larry Page, took his little company public with a reverse merger (buying out the private Handheld with one of those shell companies).

Larry Page's brother Carl, already a mega-millionaire after selling eGroups to Yahoo in 2000, just went public with his latest company, Handheld Entertainment.