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<title><![CDATA[CES: Android tablet preview]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If 2011 will be a breakout year for Android tablets, CES will serve as the starting gate.(Credit:ViewSonic)When my boss asks me what tablets I expect to see at CES, I have to laugh a little. It's a nervous laugh. Maybe I'm overreacting, but with theiPad's breakout success this year, I'm expecting a tidal wave of tablets at CES 2011.There are the obvious elephants in the room. RIM will surely be making a fuss about its PlayBook. HP should have a WebOS tablet to show off (or risk humiliation, at this point). And as for Microsoft, if we don't see a branded tablet we should at least see a convincing strategy for how the company plans to compete.But it's not the big guys that are giving me heartburn heading into CES--it's the rapidly expanding tribe of Android tablet manufacturers. With Google's tablet-optimized version of Android (aka, Honeycomb) slated for next year, any manufacturer not already invested in brewing its own tablet OS will be throwing its hat in the Android ring.Below is a listing of all the manufacturers I fully expect will have Android tablets on display at CES 2011. Each link points to the rumored or announced tablet(s) in question.AcerArchosAsusCreativeDellEntourageFusion GarageLGMotorolaMSINotion InkSamsungToshibaViewSonicNoticeably absent from this list: Sony. I know it's supposed to have its PSP Android phone in the works, but I haven't been able to get a pulse on tablet plans. As a company, Sony is notoriously bad at keeping a lid on products, so I would be surprised if a fully baked Android tablet dropped out of thin air at CES. Still, as a big, capable manufacturer, it's got to be working on something, rightOf course, this list is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to all the tablets (Android and otherwise) we'll see at CES. I'm going in assuming everyone's got a tablet to show. Whether it's Philips or Sony, or the guy at the churro cart. If I had to bet on a standout device early on, it would be the Motorola tablet Google's Andy Rubin showed off a few weeks back. It stands to reason that Google has given this tablet an early blessing for a reason, and Motorola's PR machine is already putting some money behind advertising.The only thing I really know for sure: I'm in for a busy CES. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Andreesen Horowitz And Index Lead $25 Million Round For Big Data Startup&nbsp'Factual]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Factual, the open database company, closed a $25 million series A financing, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures.  VCs Ben Horowitz of AH and Danny Rimer of Index will be joining Factual&amp;'s board.  Ron Conway&amp;'s SV Angel and former Hollywood agent Michael Ovitz also invested, as did some of the previous angels who put in about $2 million earlier this year (only half of which was previously disclosed).  &amp;''The company has very significant aspirations,&amp;'' says Rimer,&amp;'' what they are seeking to do is extremely ambitious.  We believe they will need a lot of funding.&amp;''Factual started out as sort of a wiki for databases. Anyone can create or add data to Factual, and it has all sorts of APIs to make it easy for Websites and developers to build apps on top of the data.  It also lets developers and consumers visualize this big data in all sorts of ways.  But over the past few months, the company started to focus on a few key areas, especially local.  It is also building datasets around healthcare, education, entertainment, and government.But its big push right now is in local.  It has a places database filled with the names, locations, addresses, phone numbers, and other info on 14 million businesses in the U.S.  Geo apps like Booyah rely on this places database for their services.  Factual&amp;'s biggest potential customer, however, is Facebook.  Right now, Facebook Places in Japan and the UK is based at least partially on Factual data.  If Factual can grow with Facebook Places, it has a chance to win the bigger business in the U.S. and elsewhere.  It probably doesn&amp;'t hurt that Marc Andreesen sits on Facebook&amp;'s board.Factual was founded by Gil Elbaz, who earlier co-founded Applied Semantics (that company was bought by Google for $100 million and became AdSense).  He wants to build a big data company that creates and maintains valuable datasets that other Websites and developers can then build their apps on top of.  Access to the data is very cheap or free at low volumes, but once an app starts to take off, Factual starts to charge data licensing fees based on how much data is used. CrunchBase InformationFactualBen HorowitzDanny RimerInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Abound Solar to compete on cost after closing on a sunny $510 million]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Abound Solar announced today it has closed on a $400 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy and an additional $110 million in equity financing from venture capitalists.The company makes cadmium telluride thin-film solar modules (pictured) for large solar arrays. Its approach of using cadmium telluride to make thin-film panels is similar to that of industry leader First Solar&amp;'s. Abound says it aims to make the cost of solar power competitive with traditional electricity today.&amp;''We certainly intend to be, in very short order, one of the lowest-cost producers on the planet. Much lower cost than the crystalline (silicon) guys,&amp;'' said investor and DCM general partner Tom Blaisdell in an earlier interview with VentureBeat &amp;8212' his firm also put money in this round.Abound is among the top solar companies with good chances of an IPO in the near future, alongside Amonix and Enphase, according to Lux Research. Fellow capital-rich solar startup BrightSource Energy is reportedly planning to float an IPO in 2011 &amp;8212' it&amp;'s riding high with the start of its massive Ivanpah solar thermal desert installation, for which it got a $1.4 billion loan guarantee from the DOE and a $300 million investment from NRG Enegy.Abound says it will use the new funds to expand manufacturing capacity (already underway) at its existing facility in Colorado and at a second site under construction in Indiana. When both plants are complete, Abound Solar says it will have a capacity of 840 megawatts of solar modules per year.Abound has raised about $260 million in equity financing since the companya4a4s inception in 2007. Participants in this round were Invus Group, Bohemian Companies, DCM, Technology Partners and new investors BP Alternative Energy Ventures and West Hill Companies.Next Story: Clustrix picks up $12M from Sequoia to treat database upgrade headaches Previous Story: Apple&amp;'s PC market share expected to grow &amp;8211' if you consider iPad a PCPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cadmium telluride, CaTe, Solar, thin film solarCompanies: Abound Solar, Bohemian Companies, BP Alternative Energy Ventures, DCM, Invus Group, Technology Partners, West Hill CompaniesPeople: Tom Blaisdell          Tags: cadmium telluride, CaTe, Solar, thin film solarCompanies: Abound Solar, Bohemian Companies, BP Alternative Energy Ventures, DCM, Invus Group, Technology Partners, West Hill CompaniesPeople: Tom BlaisdellIris 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).VentureBeat 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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