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Steve Westly, former California State Controller and current operator of the venture firm Westly Group, says he got interested in the smart grid and clean tech in order to save the world and make massive amounts of money in t (Read More)
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Timely information is essential when you’re operating in a competitive marketplace. Information enables better, more informed decisions — whether you’re trading stocks, bonds, precious metals or soybeans.It’s no different whe (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
November 4th marks the one-year anniversary of President Obama's election. The international community paid particularly close attention to Obama's presidential campaign and the election of 2008. During his first year in offi (Read More)
VentureBeat:
On Nov. 18 and 19, VentureBeat will be hosting its inaugural GreenBeat conference, the premier executive summit on the Smart Grid this season. One of its major goals: To spotlight the brilliant technology only now emerging to (Read More)
VentureBeat:
I spoke recently with Laura Ipsen, the senior vice president and general manager in charge of the Smart Grid for Cisco.The Smart Grid is the more efficient electrical grid that the nation is moving toward, one that relies on (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators took an important step Thursday toward prohibiting broadband providers from favoring or discriminating against certain kinds of Internet traffic.Despite the concerns of telecommunications comp (Read More)
VentureBeat:
It was a very different Carly Fiorina who took the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit dinner tonight to discuss her potential run for the U.S. Senate.Just as it was typical when she was the first female chief executive of Hewlett Pa (Read More)
VentureBeat:
As the United States and world consider new policies and legislation to help stop climate change, verifying whether they actually work is going to be a big deal.And it’s really encouraging to see a bunch of companies already (Read More)
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Most VentureBeat readers are probably familiar with Back to the Future 2’s vision of home automation — appliances that hydrate pizzas at voice command, and thumbprint activated door locks. Now Intellipowered, a Texas-based ho (Read More)
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Editor’s note: This story is part of our Microsoft-sponsored series on cutting-edge innovation.As Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools have changed the way companies reach out to customers, some are using it interna (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The Health 2.0 conference is probably the only “2.0″ conference that doesn’t belong to the O’Reilly empire (it was founded by healthcare visionaries Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya in 2007). However, like many of the other “2.0 (Read More)
VentureBeat:
It’s been a remarkable few days for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the 3 million-member business federation that says it spends more money on lobbying than any other organization in the U.S.When the Chamber recently took a str (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Last week we reported that Pachube, an open source platform enabling developers to connect sensor data to the Web, had released a real-time notifications feature. We at ReadWriteWeb think that Pachube is an excellent example (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Rising health care costs are undermining our businesses, exploding our deficits, and costing our nation more jobs with each passing month. Back on the treadmill of selling health care reform to the American people after la (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
It looks like VC firms have done a successful job of convincing politicians that they pose no systemic risk, and that adding to their regulatory burden would a drag on innovation. A proposal from Congressman Paul Kanjorski wo (Read More)
VentureBeat:
About six months ago, critics pummeled Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.He’d made questionable management decisions, or so it appeared from the outside. He’d fumbled the site’s redesign and botched the company’s terms (Read More)
VentureBeat:
We’ve bombarded you with our coverage of DEMOfall 09, the emerging technology conference that VentureBeat co-produces. But there were plenty of other reporters who watched the presentations and formed their own opinions. So I (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Last year on its tenth birthday, Google announced its Project 10^100, a call for unique ideas to help as many people as possible.In the 12 months between then and now, the company has fielded around 150,000 submissions in 25 (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Julius Genachowski is the honorable Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. And Julius Genachowski is in to kick some telecommunications companies' ass, because he wants to introduce legislation to forbid content o (Read More)