Valleywag:
Jason Calacanis, the mop-haired founder of Mahalo, an overfunded Web directory, is musing on Twitter about "tickers and rallies past" — a Proustian substitution of stock markets for madeleines. But what, exactly, does h (Read More)
New York Times:
Steven Milunovich, the veteran technology analyst, is back at Merrill Lynch after a brief foray into public relations. His new beat is cleantech, an industry that comprises solar, wind, biofuels and other sources of alternati (Read More)
VentureBeat:
To some, the idea of buildings that can be delivered by truck conjures up visions of depressing rural trailer parks. Project Frog’s designs offer a modern variation on the prefabricated building theme, though, with chea (Read More)
TreeHugger:
photo: CleantechIt looks surprisingly like a Smart Car and frankly has one of the dumbest names I’ve ever come across, but the $19,000 all-electric RTEV (Ruff & Tuff Electric Vehicles) Wheego Whip will be available in the Un (Read More)
VentureBeat:
President-elect Barack Obama announced a two year program intended to create more than 2.5 million jobs by 2011, in his second YouTube video “Weekly Address” since getting elected. It was surprisingly specific, in (Read More)
Submitted by bstern:
Greenwala, the first social network that unites consumers committed to living a more sustainable lifestyle with the brands that offer the products and services that align with their values, launched a public beta version of i (Read More)
Xconomy:
energy, demand response, Government Wade Roush wrote: Boston’s EnerNOC, which runs “demand-response pools” consisting of companies, municipalities, and other organizations that agree to dial back their (Read More)
Xconomy:
energy, Transportation, Prizes Gregory T. Huang wrote: The Automotive X Prize in Los Angeles announced today it has chosen its first 22 teams to compete for $10 million in prizes that will be awarded for developing supe (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Ziff Davis, the tech/gaming media company that recently exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy, is now taking the brave but inevitable step of closing down the print version of PCMag to focus its energy on its growing PCMag online netw (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Founded in 1982 and at times so rich with ads its issues reached as many as 600 pages, Ziff Davis's PC Magazine will issue its last print edition this January, thereafter becoming an online-only publication. Ziff Davis, which (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Ziff Davis, the tech/gaming media company that recently exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy, is now taking the brave but inevitable step of closing down the print version of PCMag to focus its energy on its growing PCMag online netw (Read More)
VentureBeat:
For anyone that doubted that President-elect Barack Obama would push for carbon cap legislation immediately on entering office, he provided reassurance today with an address to a meeting of state governors in Los Angeles.Both (Read More)
Xconomy:
cleantech, energy, startups Gregory T. Huang wrote: I pinged energy expert Jesse Berst, the managing director of Redmond, WA-based GlobalSmartEnergy, to get his take on EnerG2, the venture-backed energy-storage startup (Read More)
Xconomy:
Roundup, deals, VC Gregory T. Huang wrote: It was another slow week in the Northwest for deals. Still, there was a trickle of activity in energy, biotech, and software.—Seattle-based EnerG2 and its lead investor, (Read More)
Valleywag:
When visionaries clash, whose vision do we believe? On newsstands this week, Newsweek's Dan Lyons savages Tesla Motors, the electric-car maker. Tesla was once the brightest hope of Silicon Valley's clean-transportation indust (Read More)