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eSolar and Wildlands Conservancy Have Something Else in Common: An Investor
Pour enough cash into greentech startups and environmental efforts, and sooner or later a couple of your investments might cross paths — especially in a time when large-scale solar projects planned for...
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Aptera's Electric Three-Wheeler Fuels One Big Debate & Lobbying Effort
Electric car maker Aptera Motors has deep-pocketed friends — it’s raised more than $24 million from investors including Google.org, Idealab, The Beall Family Trust, The Simons Family, Esenjay...
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WebNotes For Marketing & PR Pros: WebNotes PR
Online annotation and research service WebNotes has been a useful tool in my arsenal since I reviewed it last year. Since that time, the company has released a Pro version and has solidified the...
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The Party Line — Phone Buzz of the Day
Here are some of today’s phone conversations I enjoyed reading or viewing on the web, along with some brief thoughts: T-Mobile service disappears in U.S. (Twitter)– I think my facetious tweet sums it...
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David Gelbaum Cuts Donations — Bye-Bye, Greentech Plays?
Former hedge-funder-turned-philanthropist — and greentech investor — David Gelbaum won’t be donating his usual $20 million to the American Civil Liberties Union this year. Nor will he contribute to the...
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Duron: How to Sell Plug-&-Play Solar to Rural India
A startup based in Bangalore, India, is selling an off-the-shelf device for less than the cost of a one-night stay in an average hotel in downtown San Francisco that can offer rural Indians a way to...
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David Gelbaum Opens the Kimono, A Bit
David Gelbaum, the famously private greentech investor and founder of the investment group The Quercus Trust — who by his own estimates has between 40 and 50 greentech investments — has done one of his...
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Logitech CEO: Why We Embrace Google TV
Logitech is one of the first companies to bring a device based on the newly announced Google TV platform to market, the company said today at Google I/O. The company calls its as-of-yet unnamed product...
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EnerG2 Kicks Off Fed-Backed Factory: First Ultracaps, Then the World
EnerG2, a company working on synthetic carbon materials for energy storage devices, hit pay dirt last summer with the award of a $21.3 million stimulus grant under a highly competitive Department of...
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ETV Motors Shifts Gears, Drops Microturbine Dream
Startup ETV Motors set out two years ago to develop “enabling technologies” for extended-range electric vehicles, including a gas microturbine generator and lithium-ion batteries. Now the Herzliya,...
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For IXCs, a VoIP lifeline
CED Magazine: The cable industry and a troupe of partners have been invited to the VoIP (Voice-over-Internet Protocol) dance. Level 3, MCI, Sprint, Vonage and other voice service providers (VSPs) are...
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Introducing, Broadband letter from India
You can get as much information about the Chinese telecom boom as you want, but world’s second hottest market is going unnoticed and as a result, I am introducing a new once-a-week column by Dr....
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Bit Torrent: Resistance is futile
Like a man in love, I just cannot get enough of Bit Torrent. So I have been finding all these great articles about the file sharing software and the open media revolution it has unleashed. For instance...
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Mobile wayback machine: Toshiba T1910CS & Motorola 3200 GSM
Thanks to a Technorati RSS feed, I caught this post from Fanatical (Fanatic-Al) that shows off some cutting-edge mobile tech….from 1994! Pictured above is a small, 386-based Toshiba notebook and one of...
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Goodbye Sally, hello C70
I am sad to report that Sally and I are no longer an item. As happens in many relationships, Sally has recently been requiring more and more of my attention and the only thing that made her happy was...
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Updates Galore!
iLife ’08 users, check for updates! Apple has unleashed a grand total of 9 updates for iLife ’08. They did sneak in a firmware update for my MacBook Pro as well. Here’s the list: Keynote 4.0.1 Pages...
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Asus press event summary: WiMAX, Eee PCs, and R50A
Heeeeeere’s Jonny! James and I are listening to the Asus news and the talk is WiMAX, WiMAX, WiMAX. Asus sees the mobile Internet as the future and is betting big on WiMAX. Anticipated range in urban...
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NAB Roundup Day 1
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is holding its big trade show in Vegas this week, and I’m not sure there’s enough caffeine to help me keep up on all the news — but here’s a round-up, so...
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Site Creation and Social Networking from MOLI
I recently reviewed the drag-and-drop Web-based site building tool Webon and marveled at its ease of use and add-on features. I’m equally as impressed with MOLI, a social networking management tool and...
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Quiet Quercus Trust's 2 Battery Plays
Our favorite stealthy private equity investor, David Gelbaum’s Quercus Trust, is involved in two investments in battery/energy storage startups, re-upping on one existing investment and joining on as...
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