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<title><![CDATA[Dell's No. 2 in PC market again, thanks to the iPad]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Having languished in third place behind Hewlett-Packard and Acer for some time, Dell finally scrambled its way back to the PC market's No. 2 spot during the fourth quarter of 2010, a new survey by research firm iSuppli says. What's strange is the unusual quarter from which Dell got some help:Apple's iPad.Acer had a tough time in the consumer market as the iPad cut into its consumer netbook sales, giving Dell, still strong in the healthy market for corporate PCs, the opportunity it needed to edge ahead of Acer by nearly two percentage points. ISuppli analyst Matthew Wilkins says it looks like a &quot;firm lead.&quot; Dell also edged out Acer for the No. 2 spot for the entire year, iSuppli says. (Table courtesy iSuppli.)Overall, iSuppli says the fourth quarter set a record for overall PC shipments with more than 93 million units, up nearly 5 percent from the same period in 2009. For the year, global PC shipments amounted to 345.4 million units, up 14.2 percent from 302.4 million in 2009.Lately, PC market analysts have been blaming Apple and its industry-changing iPad--the second iteration of which goes on sale tomorrow--for damaging the fortunes of PC makers. In this odd case it's being seen as hurting one to the advantage of another. I have to wonder if Michael Dell feels at all thankful.Story Copyright (c) 2010 AllThingsD. All rights reserved.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Facebook&'s playing a dangerous game with the Winklevoss brothers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Usually, Facebook&amp;'s public-relations officials can be relied on for a good old-fashioned &amp;''no comment&amp;'' on truly sensitive matters. That makes the company&amp;'s response to a recent wave of reporting about ongoing litigation with Harvard classmates of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg more than a bit surprising.As VentureBeat first reported in May, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, cofounders of a rival social network called ConnectU, filed an opening brief in an attempt to overturn the 2008 settlement of a long-running legal dispute with Zuckerberg. The Winklevosses &amp;8212' or &amp;''Winklevii,&amp;'' as the twin brothers have been popularly styled &amp;8212' claim that they hired Zuckerberg to help write code for ConnectU, only to have him stall their project and launch the site that became Facebook instead.The release of a movie about these events, &amp;''The Social Network,&amp;'' and a recent 60 Minutes special about Zuckerberg seem to have prompted renewed interest in the ongoing litigation. The appeal that the Winklevosses filed isn&amp;'t a new lawsuit, as some outlets incorrectly reported. (CNET has a good summary of the drama stirred up by the erroneous reports.)Never mind the timing of these reports, coming months after their appeal was first filed: It&amp;'s a worthwhile reminder that the twins are levying a fresh, and dangerous, claim against Facebook and its young CEO. They allege that, in attempting to settle the lawsuit, Zuckerberg engaged in securities fraud by deceiving them about the value of Facebook&amp;'s shares.That&amp;'s a serious charge, and one separate from the issues involved in their college-era dispute with Zuckerberg. Facebook PR manager Andrew Noyes wouldn&amp;'t address that issue in the canned statement he sent VentureBeat and other outlets:There is no new litigation between Facebook and the Winklevosses. The only recent litigation activity is when the Winklevosses recently lost their malpractice action against their former law firm, Quinn Emmanuel. The filings referred to in the Daily Mail and other articles are simply the filings by Facebook and the Winklevosses in the Winklevosses&amp;' now two-year old, thus far unsuccessful, attempt to undo their 2008 agreement to settle the parties&amp;' dispute.This artful dodging just serves to draw attention to said filings, in which Facebook&amp;'s lawyers made this curious claim:Their fraud claim is based on omission: they fault Facebook for not volunteering a more recent a4&quot; and, they claim, lower a4&quot; valuation of different Facebook stock. They insist that their sworn enemy had some special duty to open its books and volunteer any information that bears on the value of this closely held company.Granted, the Winklevosses were (and are) active litigants opposing Facebook in court. But at the moment they started negotiating with Facebook to sell ConnectU to the company for cash and stock, they became potential shareholders. And under the law, issuers of securities do, in fact, owe would-be shareholders all sorts of duties.That&amp;'s the heart of the Winklevosses&amp;' argument: That Facebook should have told them exactly how much it thought the shares it was issuing were worth. At the time, Facebook had recently taken an investment from Microsoft in preferred shares which valued the entire company at $15 billion. But a private valuation undertaken for tax purposes valued the company at closer to $4 billion. And Facebook offered common shares, not preferred shares, for ConnectU.It&amp;'s worth noting that similar uncertainty over the value of Facebook shares helped tank discussions between Facebook and Twitter about an acquisition of the fast-growing microblogging startup &amp;8212' so it&amp;'s possible to argue that Facebook&amp;'s lack of transparency about its valuation has hurt its business.Facebook is now worth far more &amp;8212' an estimated $35 billion to $40 billion, based on the value implied by private stock sales. And that may make the Winklevosses seem a bit entitled here.But the real danger for Facebook isn&amp;'t that it may have to part with a bit more of the company to make these bothersome twins go away. With the company inevitably poised to go public at some point in the future, the statements of its lawyers and PR reps risk leaving the arrogant impression that they think there&amp;'s absolutely nothing wrong with leaving shareholders in the dark.Next Story: Are all bets off for solar and wind if Treasury grant program isn&amp;'t renewed Not everyone agrees Previous Story: LA media startups: Get feedback from Greycroft and DisneyPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: lawsuits, Social networks, the social networkCompanies: Connectu, FacebookPeople: Cameron Winklevoss, Mark Zuckerberg, Tyler Winklevoss          Tags: lawsuits, Social networks, the social networkCompanies: Connectu, FacebookPeople: Cameron Winklevoss, Mark Zuckerberg, Tyler WinklevossOwen Thomas is the executive editor of VentureBeat.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  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<title><![CDATA[Light some CIGS: Intel leads $25M round for Sulfurcell&'s solar modules]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Vroman</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Looks like SpectraWatt&amp;'s struggles haven&amp;'t deterred Intel from investing in solar.SpectraWatt, an Intel spinoff which has raised about $50 million in venture capital to develop its solar cells,recently said it would close a plant and lay off 100 workers. But Intel&amp;'s investment arm is bouncing right back, this time with a bet on a promising solar-manufacturing technology that has gathered increasing steam lately.Intel Capital announced today it led a $25 million equity round for Sulfurcell, a German thin-film CIGS solar modules supplier.CIGS is considered one of the most promising new solar technologies on the market because of its high efficiency, according to Lux Research analyst Matt Feinstein. CIGS players have seen some good news recently, with SoloPower raising $51 million and announcing it would open a factory in Oregon. AQT Solar has also announced plans to open a new factory to help meet a backlog of demand.As a general rule, thin-film silicon and thin-film cadmium telluride panels cost less but yield smaller efficiency rates than traditional crystalline silicon panels. But CIGS efficiency rates have changed that, and costs are expected to continue to drop as companies realize more manufacturing efficiencies.CIGS is named for its ingredients, copper, indium, gallium and de-selinide, a relatively newer solar technology that yields higher efficiency than the cadmium telluride thin-film solar technology that is more prevalent on the market.Next Story: Hit the deck! 2011 enterprise sales may be in trouble, says VMware Previous Story: LED headlights give your electric car an extra six milesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cadmium telluride, cigs, Solar, thin film solarCompanies: Intel, Intel Capital, Sulfurcell          Tags: cadmium telluride, cigs, Solar, thin film solarCompanies: Intel, Intel Capital, SulfurcellIris 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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