Shortages and price spikes are likely to occur for certain kinds of electronic components in the aftermath of Japan&'s earthquake, according to market... read more »
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Here&'s the latest action we&'re following on the GreenBeat today:BrightSource Energy raises $1.75 million &8212' According to an SEC filing, the sola... read more »
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Remember several months ago when both Google and Facebook decided to get into the URL shortening game We wondered if Bit.ly, the market leader, was f... read more »
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Now that people are just starting to get comfortable with the concept of the check-in for geo-location, it is starting to spread to other areas like ... read more »
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Gamification, or making a non-game application more engaging by making it game-like, should not make tasks easy for the people undertaking them. It sh... read more »
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In October, after the COICA bill was postponed (until now, essentially), I suggested that as long as the internet was bound by a DNS system centraliz... read more »
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When you think of popular social networks, Tagged probably isn&'t the first one that comes to mind. Or the second. But the San Francisco company said ... read more »
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IT search engine provider Splunk is opening an office in Seattle, Wash., to try to acquire some of the talent in the area a4‚¬a4 and will be competin... read more »
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As we first reported late last week, Lars Rasmussen, the father of both Google Maps and Google Wave, has left Google is heading to Facebook. As we sus... read more »
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Around YouTube headquarters, there&'s a stat that management likes to throw around to make it clear that the company isn&'t resting on its laurels. N... read more »
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Research in Motion&'s business-focused BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will retail for under $500, the company&'s co-CEO Jim Balsillie revealed in an inter... read more »
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In an inflammatory New Yorker piece last month, Malcolm Gladwell argued that the revolution will not, in fact, be tweeted. Gladwell‚a4‚¬‚a4„s argument... read more »
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After the South by Southwest Interactive conference last week, youa4‚¬a4„d think the world would have its fill of mobile social networking apps. But h... read more »
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A few weeks ago I wrote about some office space that was available in the South Park area of San Francisco&'s SoMa district. Why was it interesting Be... read more »
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If you want to launch a successful Web TV show, thinking small may be better than thinking big, said Felicia Day, writer and star of the popular onlin... read more »
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Though geothermal energy is hardly common at the moment, one company is looking to change that &8212' by offering geothermal heating and cooling syste... read more »
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Toyota, maker of the best-known hybrid to date,‚ announced today a new family of its Priuses, including a plug-in version slated for release in 2012.N... read more »
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Adobe, the developer of popular design applications like Flash and Photoshop, brought in a record $1 billion for the first time in its fourth quarter ... read more »
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Personal genetics company 23andMe, co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has raised $9 million‚ from MPM Capital and Joh... read more »
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