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Konarka receives investment of $20 million for joint venture agreement

March 3rd, 2010 · Shared

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The companies have joined forces to develop and distribute the next generation of organic thin-film photovoltaics. "Konica Minolta positions the organic …

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Google To Begin Indexing The Internet In Real-Time?

March 3rd, 2010 · Shared

In a move that might rewrite the entire search market, Google is rumored to be creating a system that will let allow web publishers to submit content to Google for search indexing in real-time.This of course follows the introduction of PubSubHubBub by … Continue reading

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7 Cutting-Edge Energy Ideas That Didn’t Get ARPA-E Funding (Yet)

March 2nd, 2010 · Shared

Here at the Department of Energy’s first ARPA-E Summit, which was created around the $400 million in grants that the DOE is giving out to early-stage clean power startups, there’s the “haves” and the “have nots.” The “haves” are the for… Continue reading

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Facebook Revenues Up to $700 Million in 2009, On Track Towards $1.1 Billion in 2010 (Eric Eldon/Inside Facebook)

March 2nd, 2010 · Shared

Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Revenues Up to $700 Million in 2009, On Track Towards $1.1 Billion in 2010  —  Facebook is tight-lipped about its revenue numbers, which is typical of private companies.  The most it has said publicly is that it became “free cash-flow positive” as of last September. Continue reading

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Daily Sprout

March 2nd, 2010 · Shared

Biodiesel Tax Credit Coming Back: A jobs bill expected to be voted on by the Senate this week contains language that would revive a $1 per gallon tax credit for biodiesel producers which expired at the end of 2009. Passage would be good news for the em… Continue reading

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Angels vs. Venture Capitalists (Ben Horowitz/blog.pmarca.com)

March 1st, 2010 · Shared

Ben Horowitz / blog.pmarca.com:
Angels vs. Venture Capitalists  —  [This blog post is by Ben Horowitz, the Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz.]  —  At our new venture fund, we've been spending time looking into new ways that will make the lives of entrepreneurs seeking funding easier.  To that end, we've linked up with Ted Wang … Continue reading

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Google wins patent for location-based advertising (Kim-Mai Cutler/VentureBeat)

March 1st, 2010 · Shared

Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Google wins patent for location-based advertising  —  While the blogosphere was buzzing over the patent Facebook won for its news feed last week, Google earned a killer one too.  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded the search giant a patent for using location in an advertising system last Tuesday … Continue reading

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Enabling A Rush of Innovation (Rsarver/Twitter Blog)

March 1st, 2010 · Shared

Rsarver / Twitter Blog:
Enabling A Rush of Innovation  —  Even before Twitter was officially a company, we opened our technology in ways that invited developers to extend the service.  Before long, Twitter became a platform and an ecosystem of innovation began to grow.  Recently we've announced partnerships with Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft. Continue reading

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Entrepreneurs Aren’t Born — They’re Made

February 28th, 2010 · Shared

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Silicon Valley investors often have a picture in their heads of the type of person who is worthy of funding: young, brash, stubborn, and arrogant. They believe that successful entrepreneurs come from entrepreneurial families and that they start their entrepreneurial journey by selling lemonade while in grade school.

Angel investor and entrepreneur, Jason Calacanis said as much in his recent talk to Penn State students. And after meeting Wharton students, VC Fred Wilson expressed shock when a professor told him that you could teach people to be entrepreneurs. Wilson wrote, “I’ve been working with entrepreneurs for almost 25 years now and it is ingrained in my mind that someone is either born an entrepreneur or is not.”

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Earth2Tech Week In Review

February 27th, 2010 · Shared

Bloom Energy Week: Here’s my live coverage of the Bloom Energy unveiling, my thoughts on why Bloom Energy is and isn’t the Google of greentech, Bloom Energy By the Numbers, 10 Things to Know About Bloom Energy, and how Bloom Energy’s Carbon-Neutr… Continue reading

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