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<title><![CDATA[Google Offers to launch tomorrow in Portland, Ore.]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Screenshot by Steven Musil/CNET)Google Offers--the Web giant's Groupon challenger--will launch tomorrow in Portland, Ore., Google Chairman Eric Schmidt announced this evening.Schmidt and Stephanie Tilenius, Google's VP of commerce, demonstrated the new daily deals service at the D9 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., showing a $3 coupon that yields $10 in Floyd's coffee. The service is expected to rollout later this year in other cities, including New York and San Francisco.Like Groupon's service, Google Offers users can receive discounts of 50 percent or more at local businesses, but the deals won't need to hit a user threshold before they're valid.Google Offers was officially introduced Thursday, along with Google Wallet, which will allow users to pay for retail purchases by holding theirAndroid smartphones up to a specialized reader at checkout counters point of sales. The service taps near-field communications technology (NFC), which lets devices exchange information wirelessly with one another over very short distances, about 4 inches. Google Offers and Google Wallet, which is expected to launch later this summer, will combine coupons and discounts and payments at the time people make purchases through their phone.Google's ambitions for a daily deals service were revealed in January, a month after Groupon reportedly rejected the company's $6 billion bid to buy it. Groupon, which is rumored to be doing $2 billion a year in revenue, has since increased its coffers by raising $950 million in funding. Earlier this year, the company was valued at about $6.4 billion. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Did Solazyme just drop the &''fuel&'' in biofuel]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Biofuels producer Solazyme inked a massive deal with Dow Chemical today to ship up to 60 million gallons of its algae-based oil as an insulating chemical for electric transformers in 2015.Solazyme makes an oil produced from algae that is to replace petroleum that works in just about everything a4&quot; including jet engines. But some of the most lucrative prospects for biofuel companies like Solazyme aren&amp;'t in the fuel business at all. They&amp;'re in producing chemicals for other purposes. That can include creating a line of anti-aging beauty products and food additives. Dow Chemical&amp;'s plan involves replacing an insulating petroleum-based oil that insulates electric transformers from heat and discharging electricity.Solazyme might as well kill its &amp;''fuel&amp;'' business if it can get deals of this magnitude. The company&amp;'s last significant deal to use its algae-produced oil for fuel was for20,000 gallons of jet fuel in a deal with the United States Navy. That deal was worth around $8.5 million. The company recently refreshed that deal to 150,000 gallons of fuel, according to a spokesperson for Solazyme. To put things in perspective, the new deal with Dow Chemical is for up to 20 million gallons in 2013 and up to 60 million gallons in 2015, although there weren&amp;'t any specific details on pricing.It might not be long before the company&amp;'s algae-produced oil becomes even more popular in the chemical space, since the company has set a target of between $60 to $80 per barrel. Futures for light, sweet crude oil cost more than $100 as of this morning a4&quot; which will inevitably send up the price of just about everything that uses petroleum as a production component.Science-driven research firm Lux Research saidbiomaterials production will grow faster than biofuels, with 17.7 percent growth each year. That growth would be driven by major deals like this one, according to the firm. The biochemical industry was also worth $11.7 billion last year, up7 percent from 2009. That&amp;'s because about 95 percent of plastics use some petroleum in some way a4&quot; and most companies are looking for a cheaper alternative.Solazyme has a joint venture with food ingredient company Roquette and is working to develop renewable oils forsoaps made by Unilever.The company has raised $125 million over four rounds of funding. Its investors include Morgan Stanley, Chevron Technology Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures, Bluecrest Capital Finance, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Harris &amp;amp' Harris Group, The Roda Group and VantagePoint Venture Partners.Next Story: ShopWithYourFriends brings you real-time, social shopping Previous Story: Fab.com throws in the big gay towel and bets on e-commercePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: algae, algal oil, biochemical, biofuel, oilCompanies: Solazyme          Tags: algae, algal oil, biochemical, biofuel, oilCompanies: SolazymeMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. 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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