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Kleiner Perkins
Submitted by jgmize
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It is Friday, so I am inclined to take the liberty of posting something outside my usual tag-line areas of interest (see tag-line above). While I was out in San Francisco I met a lot of people interested in applying network (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Straight from GreenBeat 2009, we bring you former vice president and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore. I’ll be live-blogging this session — so it won’t be perfect or word-for-word, but it will be fast! We’ll pull out the gems as so (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Popular textbook rental site Chegg.com continues to raise tremendous amounts of money — today it announced a $57 million fourth round, as well as $55 million in credit and debt.The Santa Clara, Calif. company says it will use (Read More)
Submitted by louisgray
from Google Reader:
Green tech investing is not for the faint of heart. Competing takes money (lots of it), patience and technical know-how (lots of it, too).In its formative pre-public years, Google required only $25 million of venture capital. (Read More)
VentureBeat:
“In the last 50 years, electricity prices have been flat — in the next 10 to 30, the price of electricity is going to rise,” said Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, in conversation with Matter Network’s John Gartner, at GreenBeat 20 (Read More)
VentureBeat:
During the Consumers and Efficiency Panel, covering efficiency in the residential and commercial sectors, there were more than a few opinions expressed on how to speed adoption. Of course, this is the point of a panel: multip (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Sharon Allan, leader of Accenture’s North America Smart Grid practice, took the stage at GreenBeat2009 to present results to the firm’s survey on attitudes toward and responses to climate change and initiatives to battle glob (Read More)
VentureBeat:
“Ten years out we want lamps that use 2 percent the energy and put out the same amount of light,” Doerr said at the beginning of his talk at GreenBeat 2009 today — indicative of his interest and that of his firm, Kleiner Perk (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Verizon is already eying opportunities to provide wireless networks for Smart Grid communication systems, but today it’s expanding its presence in the space even more with the launch of a security consulting service for utili (Read More)
VentureBeat:
IBM has announced two new utilities joining the Global Intelligent Utilities Network Coalition. CPFL Energia from Brazil and Liander from the Netherlands are now members of the collective designed to push adoption of smarter (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Making the rounds of Smart Grid events (and there are quite a few of them this season), smart thermostat company EcoFactor nabbed the $250,000 grand prize in yesterday’s Cleantech Open business plan competition. EcoFactor’s S (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Nissan-Renault CEO Carl Ghosn seems to be taking career advice from Frank White lately; wherever there is an opportunity to start making some money, he wants in. Recognizing that full size vehicles were a cash cow in the US, (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The seminal conference on the Smart Grid has arrived.Our two-day inaugural GreenBeat conference kicks off this afternoon at the San Mateo Marriott, bringing together 400 utility, finance, political and entrepreneurial leaders (Read More)
VentureBeat:
General Electric’s latest in a string of joint ventures with China is a plan to transition its manufacturing of train-based engine components to Beijing.By the end of 2011, testing and re-building of components like turbochar (Read More)
VentureBeat:
There’s one day to go before GreenBeat 2009 takes off, and we’re still adding Smart Grid experts to the agenda. Rounding out the program, we have Google PowerMeter engineer (and former astronaut!) Ed Lu, and OPower CEO Dan Ya (Read More)
Vatornews.tv:
Social gaming giant raking in more cashPopular social gaming startup, Zynga raised $15.18 million on Tuesday, according to a regulatory filing. No new investors were listed, but the company now has raised $54 million in tota (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Honeywell announced that it has been awarded $11.4 million dollars in grant money from the U.S. Department of Energy. This grant is part of the single largest power infrastructure investment in U.S. history, totaling $3.4 bil (Read More)
VentureBeat:
President Barack Obama is in Beijing today, working with President Hu Jintao on a number of issues pertaining to U.S.-China relations. One of the prime areas of concern: Climate change — how the two biggest emitters of greenh (Read More)
VentureBeat:
A company called Widetronix has developed a 25-year battery. Reminiscent of Heinlein’s micro-fission reactors that could be worn on a belt, beta voltaic battery cells last 25 years or more, using semiconductors to turn high e (Read More)
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