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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SuVolta emerges with low-power chip technology]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A semiconductor start-up has emerged from stealth mode with designs on making processors more power-efficient.Silicon Valley-based SuVolta is launching today with its PowerShrink low-power platform. The company claims that PowerShrink helps to reduce chip power consumption by 50 percent or more without causing any deterioration in a device's performance.To achieve such power efficiency, SuVolta addresses &quot;electrical variation of the millions of transistors on a chip.&quot; As processors become smaller, transistors require different voltage levels to operate. Those different levels cause power leakage, lending to reduced power efficiency. With SuVolta's technology in place, chipmakers can regulate the voltage levels to reduce leakage. According to SuVolta, its technology reduces leakage by &quot;five times or more.&quot;Notably, SuVolta's platform can be implemented with existing, standard CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) processor technology and chipmaking gear.&quot;This last point is key,&quot; Scott Thompson, CTO at SuVolta, said in a statement. &quot;When you move away from planar, bulk CMOS, you're asking the semiconductor industry to bear a huge cost burden, literally billions of dollars, associated with developing new manufacturing facilities and circuit designs. SuVolta's technology works within existing designs and IP flows, and with existing equipment.&quot;Though SuVolta has built its company around power efficiency, it isn't the only firm that acknowledges the importance of reducing energy consumption in high-tech products.Last month, chip titan Intel announced a new 3D transistor structure, called Tri-Gate, for use in 22-nanometer-based chips. According to the company, which has been championing power efficiency for some time now, Tri-Gate will help chips realize a 37 percent improvement in power consumption over 32-nanometer processors.Now that it's out of stealth mode, SuVolta expects to see PowerShrink in production next year, though rather than develop processors on its own, it says that it will license the technology to semiconductor companies. Fujitsu announced today that it has licensed the technology from SuVolta, making it the first to publicly confirm support for the offering.SuVolta was founded in 2006. In May 2010, the company secured $22 million in a round of funding led by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Conde Nast mulling Reddit spinoff]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kevin882</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Conde Nast, which bought Reddit five years ago, is considering spinning out the social news site.The publisher would continue to own the site, but it's talking to investors about selling a stake. Sources tell me it is floating a $200 million valuation. Reddit, which labored under the &quot;Digg-clone&quot; designation for many years, is now a much hotter version of Digg. Last summer, it was doing more than 400 million page views a month' now it's up to a billion. The free site has made some forays into advertising, but they've been very, very cautious.The theory: taking Reddit outside of Conde Nast's corporate structure would make the site that much more valuable, and would give it a better chance to compete for capital, managers, and employees alongside the likes of zippy start-ups like Quora, StackExchange, etc. The employee issue is particularly acute for Reddit right now, as most of its original team has left the company and the site is now operating with a bare-bones staff. People familiar with Conde Nast's thinking say the spin-off was contemplated before the most recent round of departures. &quot;We love our Reddit asset, and it's a core asset for us, and it's getting more valuable every day,&quot; said Steve Newhouse, who runs digital operations for Advance Publications, Conde's parent company. Newhouse, who wouldn't offer any other comment on Reddit, is also overseeing M&amp;A for Advance. Last year he hired Yahoo dealmaker Andrew Siegel to kickstart Advance's efforts, and sold off some stock Advance held in Discovery Communications to give Siegel a $500 million starter fund.Story Copyright (c) 2010 AllThingsD. All rights reserved.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New York Times paywall plans are ambitious and sort of crazy]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kevin882</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[In a bid to wean online readers from  reading the papera4a4s content for free, the  New York Times finally announced its digital subscription plans today,  starting at $15 for four weeks of access.While certainly ambitious, and something that every online publisher  will be paying attention to, the papera4a4s paywall plans seem both too  expensive and too confusing to take off.The  $15 four-week subscription gets you unlimited  access to the site on the web and via mobile apps on the iPhone, Android  and Blackberry. A $20 plan offers four weeks of web and iPad access, and the  paper will also offer a $35 all-access plan that will cover the web,  phone and iPad. Existing subscribers of the NYTa4a4s print  edition will receive unlimited access to the paper via the web and  mobile devices.So  how will the NYT avoid losing casual readers Beginning March 28, the  paper will allow visitors to read up to 20 articles a month for free.  Once they hit the 21st article, they&amp;'ll be forced to choose one of  the above subscription plans. The paper has already turned on the 20  article limit for readers in Canada to test out bugs before the US  launch.a4AThis  move is an investment in our future,a4 said Arthur Sulzberger Jr.,  chairman of the New York Times Company, in remarks to employees this  morning. a4AIt will allow us to develop new sources of revenue to support  the continuation of our journalistic mission and digital innovation,  while maintaining our large and growing audience to support our robust  advertising business.a4So  as not to completely lock out its content from search engines and  conversation on the web, the NYT wona4a4t count visits from search engines  and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Readers coming  from Google will only have access to five free articles a day.Judging  from my Twitter stream today (which admittedly is full of media  personalities), response to the New York Times&amp;' paywall plans seems to  be mostly negative. I can understand why. The $15 a month base price  just seems too high in a world where $8 gets you unlimited access to  thousands of hours of content on Netflix. Yes, the two companies do  completely different things, but Netflixa4a4s pricing is worth paying  attention to: ita4a4s more of a a4Awhy nota4 type of price that consumers  dona4a4t think too much about, versus the $15 a4Awhy should Ia4 price.It  may not seem like a huge price difference, but I think the New York  Times would have been better off starting at around $10 a month for web  access. At $15, the paper will attract dedicated readers but likely not  as many casual readers as a $10 plan would.In  addition to being priced too high, I think the paper is also making a  mistake by offering casual readers a measly 20 stories a month. I  realize that the NYT wants readers to hit that limit sooner, rather than  later, but it seems like a long shot that readers would want to  subscribe after just 20 stories. (You can view how many stories youa4a4ve  read in the past with your free NYT.com account at the papera4a4s recommendations page.)I  wouldna4a4t be surprised if the NYT hopes to attract new print subscribers  with its digital pricing. After all, you can subscribe to the Weekender  plan for the print version of the paper for $12.60 a month, which  includes complete access to the NYTa4a4s digital content. As VentureBeata4a4s  executive editor Owen Thomas pointed out on Twitter, Weekender subscribers remain far more valuable to the NYT than digital subscribers when it comes to ad revenues.Photo via Adam KinneyNext Story: Social publishing startup Scribd completes its embrace of HTML5 Previous Story: Zong expands its mobile payments to game consoles and tabletsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: digital subscriptions, iPad, newspapers, NYT, smartphones, subscriptionsCompanies: New York Times          Tags: digital subscriptions, iPad, newspapers, NYT, smartphones, subscriptionsCompanies: New York TimesDevindra Hardawar is VentureBeat's lead mobile writer and East Coast correspondent. He studied philosophy at Amherst College, worked in IT support for several years, and has been writing about technology since 2004. He now lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can reach him at devindra@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @Devindra. 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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