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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wave-powered robot funded for sea missions]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bugrasman1</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[It started monitoring humpback whales, but Liquid Robotics expects its self-powered marine drone to be deployed for many other missions, including defense and industrial applications. Liquid Robotics yesterday said that it raised $22 million from VantagePoint Capital Partners and has hired Bill Vass, a former Sun Microsystems president and COO with experience selling to the federal government, as CEO. It's the first institutional funding for the company, which developed an autonomous ocean robot called the Wave Glider for environmental research when it was a joint venture between Jupiter Research Foundation and Roger Hine. That project evolved into the Liquid Robotics company, which launched in 2007 to further develop the technology. The robots are being used by research institutions, including the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, as well as for national security and offshore oil and gas exploration.&quot;We can now record wide-ranging, long-term oceanic and atmospheric observations in real time, and unleash capabilities in a way never before possible,&quot; said VantagePoint Capital Partners CEO Alan Salzman in a statement.The Wave Glider uses the up and down motion of waves to propel itself with a series of fins, with one trial run lasting more than a year with minor inspections. The glider portion, which is underwater, is tethered to a float equipped with solar panels that power a satellite-based communications system.The system allows remote operators to control the device and gather data on environmental monitoring applications. One of the investors in this round is oil services company Schlumberger. Liquid Robotics either sells the robots directly to customers or it provides data services to customers. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Electromagnetism can deter algae pests, firm says]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bugrasman1</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[OriginOil's illustration of what Algae Screen accomplishes(Credit:OriginOil)OriginOil has developed a new method for targeting invading microbes that can kill or damage algae ponds, the algae research company said today.The method, which the Australia-based company plans to offer as a product called Algae Screen, uses low-power electromagnetic pulses to target rotifers, ciliates, and bacteria harmful to algae growth. And the pulses do not harm the algae themselves, according to OriginOil.The electromagnetic pulses can be tailored to take into account issues such as the type of algae being grown, as well as the salinity and water hardness of an algae pond.Algae Screen can be used for any type of algae farm but is mainly intended for use in open algae ponds where algae is most vulnerable to microbe invasions, according to OriginOil.Algae, which can be made into biofuel forcars and trucks, is seen as a good alternative to not just petroleum, but also ethanol. Unlike other biofuel feedstocks, algae is a renewable resource that can potentially offer high yields over small areas of land. While there has been a marked increase in algae investment and research in recent years, some experts say there is still a long way to go before algae is truly competitive with petroleum.A number of companies, including agriculture giant Monsanto, are investing in algae research, to improve its scalability.OriginOil has claimed several breakthroughs in recent months. Most notably in December OriginOil announced it had successfully partnered with MBD Energy to develop processes for converting coal pollution into algae fuel. MBD developed technology for capturing its CO2 pollution with micro-algae which spurs further reproduction of the algae. The algae biomass is then put through a process developed by OriginOil in which the algae can be separated out by water, oil, and algae byproducts over time for easy retrieval. The leftover algae biomass can then be converted into plastics.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HP replaces four board members]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
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<description><![CDATA[HP Chairman Ray Lane.(Credit:Hewlett Packard)Just a few months removed from the Mark Hurd scandal, Hewlett-Packard's board of directors is getting a makeover.HP said today that it is replacing four board members and adding an additional seat. Out are Joel Hyatt, John Joyce, Robert Ryan, and Lucille Salhany.In are newcomers Shumeet Banerji, CEO of Booz &amp; Company' Gary Reiner, former CIO at GE' Patricia Russo, former CEO of Alcatel-Lucent' Dominique Senequier, CEO of AXA Private Equity' and Meg Whitman, former president and CEO of eBay and recent California gubernatorial candidate. That brings the HP board seat count to 13, up from 12.All five new directors also will stand for re-election at HP's next annual meeting in March.&quot;The addition of these new directors will further diversify the outstanding talents and wide-ranging experience that our directors already bring to HP,&quot; Ray Lane, HP's non-executive chairman of the board of directors, said in a statement.Lane also thanked the four retiring members, noting that they &quot;worked tirelessly and effectively to navigate HP through a difficult leadership change in the last six months.&quot;Former lead independent director of the board Ryan called it &quot;a great privilege to serve on the HP board and see this outstanding company build on its legacy as a technology leader and innovator.&quot; He also expressed confidence in new CEO Leo Apotheker and Lane. &quot;HP has a strong leadership team in place to continue moving the company forward,&quot; he said. The timing of the replacement seems tied to an investigation HP is ready to start into the circumstances surrounding former CEO Hurd's resignation from the company. Hurd, who is now president of HP rival Oracle, resigned as chief executive in August after sexual harassment allegations led to an inquiry that found he had misreported his expenses to the company.Last night, it was reported that HP wants this investigation to be &quot;independent&quot; and led by a committee of outside attorneys and board members who joined the Silicon Valley giant after Hurd's departure. As of last night, that meant only two board members qualified: Apotheker and Lane.The new slate of directors would mean all of them could qualify to participate in the investigation. The remaining six incumbents would not: Marc Andreessen, Lawrence T. Babbio Jr., Sari M. Baldauf, Rajiv L. Gupta, John H. Hammergren, and G. Kennedy Thompson.Adding a handful of new faces is also a way for Apotheker, who's still in the process of making himself at home at HP, to add a some new blood and perhaps sever some old alliances. Until today, some of the directors were approaching a decade on the board. Salhany was named a director in 2002, Ryan in 2004, and Joyce and Hyatt in 2007. The longest-serving remaining incumbents have been on the board since 2005, when Hurd first came to HP. In an interview on CNBC today, Lane said the departures were &quot;voluntary&quot; and unrelated to Hurd's ousting last summer.The new board members won't have much time to get comfortable in their new seats before jumping into action. Besides its own investigation, HP is facing shareholder lawsuits over the severance package Hurd received upon his departure. The Securities and Exchange Commission is also poking around, asking questions about Hurd's alleged revelation of an impending purchase of Electronic Data Systems to a former contractor months before it was announced to the public.This post was updated several times, most recently at 2:34 p.m. PT.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Demand Media clears SEC and prices IPO]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bugrasman1</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Demand Media is set to go public, according to an amended filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, with shares priced from $14 to $16 each.The online publisher could sell up to 8.625 million shares and, if it prices at the top of the range, it could be worth about $1.3 billion and raise $138 million.That includes 4.5 million shares from the company, 3 million shares from existing shareholders, and another 1.125 million shares that its underwriters have an option to sell.Demand will net $58.1 million if the IPO price is $15.00 per share, which it said it will use for &quot;investments in content, international expansion, working capital, product development, sales and marketing activities, general and administrative matters, and capital expenditures.&quot;The company added that &quot;we currently anticipate that our aggregate investments in content during the year ending December 31, 2011, will range from $50 million to $75 million.&quot;Demand's ticker symbol will be DMD on the New York Stock Exchange.In its amended prospectus, Demand said:This is an initial public offering of shares of common stock of Demand Media, Inc. Demand Media is offering 4,500,000 of the shares to be sold in the offering. The selling stockholders identified in this prospectus are offering an additional 3,000,000 shares. Demand Media will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of the shares being sold by the selling stockholders. Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for the common stock. It is currently estimated that the initial public offering price per share will be between $14.00 and $16.00. The common stock of Demand Media has been approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol &quot;DMD.&quot;Demand's road to an IPO has been relatively quick.One bump came last month, as AllThingsDigital reported after the Santa Monica, Calif., company had to satisfy government regulatory questions over the way it recognizes costs of creating content.Currently, using a concept of &quot;long-lived&quot; content, Demand has been amortizing those expenses over five years, since it says it continues to generate revenue on that material over that much time. Most publishers recognize costs immediately.That's different from many companies in the publishing business, which typically account for costs of creating content immediately as they are incurred or over a much shorter time period.Demand has determined that its content has a more evergreen nature, compared to more topical--and perishable, from a revenue point of view--material produced by others.Obviously, since this accounting treatment results in more attractive financial results, the longer expense period is of great interest to many other online content creators--such as AOL and Yahoo--which are watching the Demand IPO closely.While the SEC did not ask Demand to make changes to its accounting practices, the amended S-1 is more detailed about them.To be allowed to expense over five years, Demand said, the company has to use a sophisticated algorithmic platform--which other content creators do not have--to provide proof of &quot;probable economic benefits&quot; from that content over that time.Since Demand has long claimed that it has a new and innovative approach to content creation, it is making the case to investors that it needs to have the correct accounting for that approach.Said Demand in its amended filing:&quot;In determining whether content embodies probable future economic benefit required for asset capitalization, management has reviewed and intends to regularly review the operating performance of content published.&quot;But, it warned:&quot;Changes from the five-year useful life we currently use to amortize our capitalized content would have a significant impact on our financial statements. For example, if underlying assumptions were to change such that our estimate of the weighted average useful life of our media content was higher by one year from January 1, 2010, our net loss would decrease by approximately $1.6 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2010, and would increase by approximately $2.4 million should the weighted average useful life be reduced by one year.&quot;The practice has passed government scrutiny and now investors will decide what they think of this and the entire business of Demand.Demand execs will now go on a road show for the offering, which is being led by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.Story Copyright (c) 2010 AllThingsD. All rights reserved.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[WikiLeaks--public enemy No. 1 (week in review)]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=wikileaks-public-enemy-no--1-week-in-review</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bugrasman1</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
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<description><![CDATA[WikiLeaks promised its latest release of classified documents to the Internet would be its biggest to date, and the resulting backlash ratcheted up as well.Despite strident denunciations from Washington officialdom, the whistle-blowing site released about 250,000 sensitive diplomatic cables. Among the files released is a directive signed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordering clandestine electronic surveillance of United Nations leadership, including obtaining &quot;security measures, passwords, personal encryption keys, and types of VPN versions used.&quot;The files, which appear to have originated from the U.S. Defense Department's SIPRNET, were provided in advance to news organizations including Germany's Der Spiegel and Spain's El Pais--Wikileaks waited before releasing the cables on its own Web site. However, even before WikiLeaks was able to post the files, its site was reportedly targeted by a massive computer attack. &quot;We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack,&quot; WikiLeaks said on its Twitter feed the morning the files were expected to be released.The climate only heated up from there. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, asked the Obama administration to &quot;determine whether WikiLeaks could be designated a foreign terrorist organization,&quot; putting the group in the same company as al-Qaeda.As a result of that pressure, Amazon stopped hosting the controversial site on its servers. WikiLeaks had been tapping into Amazon's EC2, or Elastic Cloud Computing service. WikiLeaks said it's now being hosted by servers in Europe.&amp;149'&amp;nbsp' WikiLeaks, Assange feel the heat (roundup)&amp;149'&amp;nbsp' WikiLeaks faces more U.S. demands for prosecution&amp;149'&amp;nbsp' WikiLeaks reappears on Swiss Net domain&amp;149'&amp;nbsp' Amazon: U.S. played no role in WikiLeaks disconnect&amp;149'&amp;nbsp' AG says WikiLeaks criminal probe is 'ongoing'&amp;149'&amp;nbsp' WikiLeaks has U.S. scrambling to plug holes&amp;149'&amp;nbsp' Republicans slam White House over WikiLeaks responseMore headlinesU.S. seizes sites linked to copyright infringementDepartment of Homeland Security launches major crackdown on online copyright infringement, seizing dozens of Web site domains linked to illegal file sharing and counterfeit goods.&amp;149'&amp;nbsp' Pirate Bay appeal falls on deaf ears&amp;149'&amp;nbsp' Google to do more piracy fighting with search<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Three startups, not just one, win the Le Web startup competition]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bugrasman1</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The Le Web startup competition filtered over 400 startups down to a final 16. We covered a few of the companies here, here, here and here. Today the last three finalists got the opportunity to pitch their startups to the assembled crowd at the conference, after which the judges retired to deliberate live their pick for the winner.Chairman of the judges David Hornik said the judges changed the format of the awards and decided they wanted a winner with great originality, technology and virality. But decided all three should win.(There was also an audience pick: City M).First Prize in Virality goes to:Paper.li (Smallrivers)www.paper.liSome 120,000 paper.li &amp;''papers&amp;'' are now in operation and 1,000 are being created each day. Paper.li, the startup out of Switzerland which has gotten potential investors hot under the collar has garnered a lot of traction for a Twitter app. They&amp;'ve also added searches on public Facebook status updates.CrunchBase InformationSmallRiversInformation provided by CrunchBaseFirst Prize in Technology goes to:Wazewww.waze.comSocial mapping company Waze  now has over 2 million drivers who have logged over 250 million kilometers. Plus investors love the company. They just raised a $25 million Series B round of funding from existing investors Blue Run Ventures, with other existing investors, Magma Venture Partners and Vertex Venture Capital taking part.  The round also included new strategic investors including Qualcomm Ventures. More pushes in the US and Europe are planned, as are a headquarters move from Tel Aviv to Palo Alto.Waze gets users to build out their maps in terms of traffic, accidents, etc by simply driving around. You get free GPS navigation and a social game which incentivise users to map more places and contribute to Waze, thus improving their maps far more than billion dollar satellites ever could. Although Google offers free turn-by-turn navigation through Android, it&amp;'s on other devices, but Waze is.CrunchBase InformationWazeInformation provided by CrunchBaseFirst Prize in Originality goes to:Super Marmitewww.super-marmite.comSuper Marmite is a location-based social network that brings homemade meals to your doorstep. It&amp;'s strap-line a4ACe qui mijote en ce momenta4 means a4Awhata4a4s cooking right now a4. Think of it as a kind of P2P fast food outlet. Anyone can cook a meal and offer it on the network. The idea is to build up an eclectic gourmet offering, produced daily by individuals as an alternative to traditional fast food outlets. Users are rated by the community to weed out the potential poisoners of course. Created as a Paris StartupWeekend May this year. The initial idea was to offer people who love to cook to prepare an extra servings and sell it online. Tim poor people would then buy the extra serving and picking it up because they can work out how close they are. They idea is to avoid wastage of food. In parallel, another mission of Super Marmite is the life of the community: to offer tips and recipe ideas, organize events around the kitchen, but also track down great deals for members&amp;' exclusive gourmet accessories like kitchenware, cookbooks, utensils, food etc. Super Marmite is a graduate of the Paris Founder Institute.CrunchBase InformationSuper MarmiteInformation provided by CrunchBasePicture courtesy <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AOL acquires Pictela to distribute more promos]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[AOL announced this morning that it has acquired New York-basedPictela, a service that distributes promotional content like videos, photos, and coupons across top publishers such as AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Glam Media.While the terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, a source told the Wall Street Journal it could be between $20 million to $30 million.The company&amp;'s motive for the acquisition, it claims, is to add to its premium tools for advertisers and publishers, including its new interactive ad format dubbed Project Devil, which is slated to be rolled out by the end of March.Advertisers are increasingly seeking ways of marketing to online consumers that go beyond standard banner ads and search-linked keywords.As AOL pushes itself toward content and advertising, it has bought a slew of content-oriented companies such as StudioNow, 5min Media, and TechCrunch.The 18-employee Pictela, which was founded in 2009, will remain in New York and operate as a separate group within AOL Advertising.Previous Story: What can we expect from Foursquare&amp;'s new appPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: acquisition, advertising, branded content, content, high-definitionCompanies: aol, Pictela          Tags: acquisition, advertising, branded content, content, high-definitionCompanies: aol, PictelaSid Yadav is a contributor to VentureBeat. He currently studies computer science and psychology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He is also the creator of Memiary, a micro-diary utility. You can reach him at sidyadav@gmail.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @sidyadav.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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