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<title><![CDATA[Entrepreneur Corner: Rulings may change privacy rights of employee emails]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Herea4a4s the latest from VentureBeata4a4s Entrepreneur Corner.How private is employee email a4&quot; You might think the rules about whether an employeea4a4s emails on a work computer are cut and dry, but recent court rulings have muddied the waters. Attorney Curtis Smolar brings you up to speed on where things stand.Here&amp;'s why you should care about the flexible workforce a4&quot; Mobile employees are growing in number a4&quot; and the trend doesna4a4t seem likely to reverse itself anytime soon. Rob Eleveld, CEO of Shiftboard, Inc., lists five things sntrepreneurs need to know as the contingent workforce becomes the rule, rather than the exception.8 more mutable suggestions of startup naming a4&quot; Still searching for the perfect name for your startup Serial entrepreneur Dharmesh Shah is back with eight additional suggestions on how to pick one that works a4&quot; and wona4a4t haunt you as your company matures.Creating the unforgettable elevator pitch a4&quot; Elevator pitches are pretty commonplace in the startup world, but not everyone knows how to do them. Eric Tsai, web strategist at Designdamage, offers tips on how to make the most of your efforts to pitch your idea in a short timespan.5 solid startup lessons &amp;8211' Aaron Levie launched Box.net from his college dorm room and made a lot of mistakes. Now, the CEO of a company that has raised nearly $30 million in venture capital since 2005, runs down some of the top lessons he has learned.This post was sponsored by WatchMouse, a service which monitors websites, Web applications, and web API&amp;'s for availability and performance from an external perspective. WatchMouse delivers a self-service monitoring solution utilizing an infrastructure of over 50 monitoring stations in 30 countries. Multi-step monitoring, Real Browser Monitoring and Public Status Pages are included in all plans. Learn more here. As always, VentureBeat maintains strict adherence to its principles of editorial integrity and WatchMouse had no input into the content of this post.Next Story: Yuri Milner and Ron Conway aim to disrupt angel investing with latest proposal Previous Story: &amp;''The tweets must flow!&amp;'' says Twitter amidst Egyptian unrestPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: entrepreneur corner          Tags: entrepreneur cornerChris Morris is editor of the Entrepreneur Corner on VentureBeat, helping start-up business owners launch and grow their companies. He previously worked at Yahoo! Finance, where he was managing editor, and as director of content development at CNNMoney.com. He is also a widely respected journalist in the video game and technology fields, whose work has appeared in Variety, CNBC.com, AOL and Forbes.com. Follow him on Twitter at @MorrisatLarge Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Backed by Google, Transphorm unstealths with plan to tackle billion-dollar energy losses]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Transphorm came out of stealth today with the high-profile backing of Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins, and power-conversion technology it says can tackle billion-dollar energy losses.With its power switching technology, Transphorm is taking aim at a billion-dollar inefficiency issue in energy: losses that inherently happen in energy conversion. When you juice up your cell phone, the charger converts the grid&amp;'s alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC), but some of the power is lost during the conversion process. Transphorm makes a device that can cut up to 90 percent of that power loss.It may seem like a rote topic, but the scale of the issue is huge because just about everything that uses electricity requires power conversion. Transphorm says conversion losses account for 10 percent of all energy generated in the U.S. &amp;8212' $40 billion worth of electricity or the equivalent of 318 coal-fired plants, more than all the power generated by renewables (see chart below).It&amp;'s also a potentially lucrative area for investors. GE recentlyspent $520 million to acquire Lineage Power, a power-conversion company that GE said would give it access to huge money-making opportunities in the telecom industry and greening data centers.&amp;''You can take the whole West Coast of America off the grid if you can save the conversion losses that occur,&amp;'' said CEO Umesh Mishra in an interview with VentureBeat. &amp;''It is a big problem in energy efficiency today, and it is one that is hard to tackle.&amp;''Transphorm&amp;'s approach clearly got the attention of Google, which has madestrides in greening its data centers &amp;8212' a popular topic in cleantech, as data centers are huge and expensive consumers of energy. Transphorm&amp;'s investors also include Foundation Capital and Lux Capital.The company raised $20 million in a third round of fundraisinglast May, but didn&amp;'t go public with its plan and investors until today.Transphorm&amp;'s innovation is in its switching devices and module design. The company embeds power conversion devices in circuits and modules specifically designed for use in segments like solar inverters and industrial motors, so it&amp;'s not a plug-and-play product, which Mishra says others have tried in the past. Gallium nitride is part of Transphorm&amp;'s equation &amp;8212' it&amp;'s a fairly new material commonly used in LED lighting and is &amp;''ideal power switching material,&amp;'' Mishra said, because it is a low-resistance material that can simultaneously hold off large voltage. Power-conversiondevices are traditionally made using silicon.&amp;''There is no further pathway for silicon. It has just reached its fundamental materials limits. [Other scientists] have shown what the maximum limits are, and wea4a4ve broken them,&amp;'' Mishra said.Integrating gallium nitride into a power-conversion switch isn&amp;'t easy, though, so Mishra says that&amp;'s part of the company&amp;'s special sauce. Transphorm embeds and connects the technology to application-specific modules that ultimately deliver energy efficiency. It then sells the solution to manufacturers, who integrate it into their products.The approach can be used to solve energy inefficiency problems in a broad spectrum of power conversion. Markets that Transphorm has singled out include servers in data centers (converting AC to DC), motors that power elevators (AC to AC), hybrid cars (DC to AC) and solar panel inverters (DC to AC).The company isn&amp;'t releasing details of the cost of the device or how long return on investment takes. As is the case with most energy efficiency plays, Transphorm&amp;'s customers can expect to earn back their investment through money saved on reduced energy use.What&amp;'s next The company says it will be announcing customers across its target markets in the next year, starting with an announcement at the Applied Power Electronics Conference in Fort Worth, Tex. in two weeks.Right now, the company is focused on using the proceeds from the $20 million round to support current orders for its customers. But demand has been strong, and Mishra says the Goleta, Calif.-based company will be looking to expand its facilities next year and will aim to raise another round of funding at that time.&amp;''Wea4a4re getting terrific customer pull. The technology has just emerged. Wea4a4ve just begun whata4a4s going to be an amazing ride in the development of the technology,&amp;'' Mishra said.[Top image via Flickr/kk+]Next Story: Toyota to launch home electric car charger, jumping into a crowded market Previous Story: Google&amp;'s investment in Transphorm could be good news for electric carsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: data centers, energy efficiency, green data centers, power conversionCompanies: Foundation Capital, Google, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital, TransphormPeople: Umesh Mishra          Tags: data centers, energy efficiency, green data centers, power conversionCompanies: Foundation Capital, Google, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital, TransphormPeople: Umesh MishraIris Kuo is the VentureBeat's lead GreenBeat writer. She has reported for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Houston Chronicle, the McClatchy Washington Bureau and Dallas public radio. Iris attended the University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Houston. Follow Iris on Twitter @thestatuskuo (and yes, that's how you  pronounce her last name). Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ubera4a4s car service comes to Palo Alto with new rates]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Uber, a mobile application that makes it easy for users to order limos and town cars, has been talking about expanding from San Francisco to Silicon Valley for a while now. Today it happened.The San Francisco startup previously announced that for two weeks, it would launch in Palo Alto with exclusive pickups for Facebook and Google employees, presumably as a way to build buzz before opening to the general public in mid-March. (Rather confusingly, non-Facebook and Google employees could call for pickups in Silicon Valley locations outside of Palo Alto.)Today, the company (formerly known as UberCab) said that ita4a4s going to end the exclusivity early, because a4Amany of the Uber Faithful decried not having their Uber Southern Comfort.a4 So anyone can use Uber anywhere on the peninsula.Ia4a4ve become a huge fan of Uber in the last couple of months, after I finally started using the service when I couldna4a4t get a cab on New Yeara4a4s Eve. Yes, ita4a4s more expensive then calling a cab, but ita4a4s also more convenient (all the payments are handled in the app), comfortable, and most important for me, reliable (the drivers are tracked by the GPS on their phones, so you have a good estimate of when theya4a4ll arrive).For those of you who don&amp;'t know how it works, Uber isn&amp;'t running a car service itself' instead it connects existing car companies and drivers with passengers through the app. The drivers Ia4a4ve talked to have raved about how it makes their jobs more lucrative by helping them find passengers when theya4a4re not serving one of their regular clients.This expansion will be a good test of Ubera4a4s viability &amp;8212' specifically, whether the concept works outside of dense, urban areas. The company warns that users may have to wait longer for their pickups. Since trips on the peninsula will probably cover a longer distance, prices will also go up, but Uber is trying to mitigate that by offering some new flat rates, so passengers know exactly how much a trip will cost. For example, a ride from Palo Alto to the San Francisco Airport will cost $85, while a trip from Palo Alto to San Francisco proper will cost $115.Uber recently raised an $11 million round from Benchmark Capital and previous investors First Round Capital, Chris Saccaa4a4s Lowercase Capital, and the Founder Collective.Next Story: How we rocked DEMO Spring 2011 (photos) Previous Story: CrowdGather raises $7.85M to roll-up the Weba4a4s forumsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: car service, no more taxisCompanies: Uber          Tags: car service, no more taxisCompanies: UberAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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