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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Job ads show Google wading deeper in clean energy]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the job openings at Google is to work on heliostats, or sun-tracking mirrors used to concentrate light and produce heat in concentrating solar systems.(Credit:BrightSource Energy)Google has invested significant money and employee time in clean-energy technologies over the past few years but recent job openings point to stepped-up efforts to build its own products.There are currently five renewable-energy engineer job openings listed on Google's job site, including a top manager position at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters that hints at Google's bigger ambitions.The &quot;head of renewable energy engineering&quot; will lead a research and development team within Google to lower the cost of renewable energy. &quot;As the engineering leader of Google's clean energy initiative, you will be responsible for building a team of top technologists to develop disruptive new technologies that dramatically lower the cost of renewable electricity - with the goal of making renewable energy cheaper than coal within a few years,&quot; according to the job posting.The other job openings specify skills in designing and prototyping utility-scale renewable-energy systems. Google is seeking people able to assess and create different renewable-energy technologies with the potential to be cheaper than coal-generated electricity, including solar, wind, enhanced geothermal, and other &quot;breakthrough technologies,&quot; according to a listing. Another job is geared at making Google's operations more sustainable, such as reducing its energy use and achieving the corporate goal of carbon neutrality. Google first launched its renewable energy cheaper than coal initiative in 2007. The company invested in a few start-ups and took a number of measures to improve the efficiency of its operations. In the past several months, though, Google has sped up its activity in renewable energy.In April, its Google Energy subsidiary invested directly in a wind farm in Oklahoma located near a planned Google data center. Altogether, Google has also invested more than $400 million in renewable energy, including a large wind farm in Oregon and a large solar project in California earlier this year.  Yesterday, it announced that it is expanding to 450 electric-vehicle charging stations on its campuses, acting as a corporate customer to advance electric-vehicle technology.Through its philanthropy Google.org, Google invested in start-ups, including high-wind company Makani Power, enhanced geothermal companies, and solar company BrightSource Energy, which filed to go public earlier this year. The company also developed PowerMeter, a home energy monitoring Web application, the only energy-related product Google has released. In 2010, Google's green-energy czar Bill Weihl said that engineers had built a prototype of a sun-tracking mirror called a heliostat which could lower the cost of solar energy. Weihl also told Reuters that Google was discouraged in the amount of money going into early-stage renewable-energy technologies. By expanding its internal research and development around clean energy, Google appears to be stepping up its commitment to develop more technologies internally.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AT&T to Congress: T-Mobile buy good for consumers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 07:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Executives from AT&amp;T and T-Mobile visited Capitol Hill for the second time this month to defend the $39 billion deal announced in March in which AT&amp;T would swallow its smaller rival and create a dominant wireless carrier with more than 129 million subscribers.Lawmakers don't have a say over whether the merger gets approved. That's up to the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission. But the House Judiciary Committee hauled the top executives from both companies as well as industry experts to Washington to explain how the deal could be good for consumers.&quot;This transaction is all about consumers,&quot; said Randall Stephenson, AT&amp;T's chairman and chief executive. &quot;It's about keeping up with consumer demand. It's about giving consumers what they expect--fewer dropped calls, faster speeds, and access to state-of-the-art mobile broadband Internet service.&quot;At the same time, Ren&amp;233 Obermann, chief executive of T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom, argued that the mobile carrier is struggling to compete against much larger rivals like AT&amp;T and Verizon at the same time it tries to survive in an evolving marketplace against new technologies, including voice over IP services such as Skype.&quot;T-Mobile has been caught in the middle of this dynamic marketplace and has had an increasingly difficult time competing,&quot; Obermann said. T-Mobile, he added, lost 471,000 customers in the last quarter alone.&quot;I thank you for your evasiveness on this issue so I don't have to come back next year and say they promised not to cut jobs.&quot; --U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.)Stephenson and T-Mobile USA chief executive Philipp Humm appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 11, making many of the same arguments. (See list of related CNET articles.)The executives faced the toughest questioning today from Rep. John Conyers, the Michigan Democrat who acknowledged at the very beginning of the hearing that he &quot;never met a merger that I liked.&quot; Conyers opined that mergers always cost jobs, reduce competition, and hurt consumers. He commented that Stephenson never mentioned anything in his testimony about the impact of the deal on employment.&quot;I thank you for your evasiveness on this issue so I don't have to come back next year and say they promised not to cut jobs,&quot; Conyers said.Stephenson later testified that there will be some short-term job losses in corporate functions that overlap. But, he said, history has shown that jobs increase within wireless mergers. AT&amp;T has doubled the employees in its wireless division since it acquired Cingular, as part of its BellSouth acquisition.&quot;There are redundancies,&quot; Stephenson said. &quot;We will not need two finance organizations. We will not need two marketing organizations...(But) it should be a job creator. It always has been.&quot;The deal also faced some criticism from Andrew I. Gavil, an antitrust law professor at the Howard University School of Law, who's concerned about the growing concentration of power in the hands of just a few companies. He worries that market-leader Verizon, along with AT&amp;T after it acquires T-Mobile, will be so dominant as to marginalize the only other major carrier, Sprint. The two large companies would have unprecedented power over the wireless industry.&quot;I am deeply concerned that the proposed merger presents very substantial risks of anticompetitive effects across multiple dimensions of competition,&quot; Gavil testified. &quot;Hence, the question I am asking myself, and the one I urge you to ask as well, is this: 'Why would we want to take the risk'&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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