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<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 07:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Volvo working on wireless charging for EVs]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=volvo-working-on-wireless-charging-for-evs</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 07:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pnojubimJohn1</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=volvo-working-on-wireless-charging-for-evs</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Illustration of Volvo&amp;39's wireless charging solution for the C30 Electric.(Credit:Volvo)Volvo's electric vehicle technology is about to become cleaner. Thecar maker will begin testing wireless charging technology on its Volvo C30 Electric that will let drivers recharge the battery without touching a cable or dirtying their hands.The current C30 Electric that will begin customer testing in Europe later this year uses a cable to plug into the car's grille via a specially designed charge connector. In a new partnership agreement, Belgium's state-owned Flanders' Drive will modify a Volvo C30 Electric so a 20kWh battery can be recharged wirelessly using induction charging.  With inductive charging, a magnetic field is created between a charging plate on the ground and the vehicle's inductive pick-up, which transfers electricity from the energy source to the battery. The car's built-in voltage converter converts the alternating current to direct current, which is fed into the car's battery pack. Using this method, a fully drained 24kWh battery will take an hour and 20 minutes to fully recharge, according to Volvo. In the current C30 Electric, the 24kWh lithium ion battery pack can be recharged in 6-8 hours using a 230-volt outlet. Toyota recently began working with Massachusetts-based WiTricity on a similar test project that could eventually wirelessly charge the Prius. In March, Google received a Plugless Power wireless charging station developed by Virginia-based Evertran for its fleet of EVs. The Plugless Power can wirelessly recharge electric vehicles outfitted with model-specific adapters mounted to the car. The inductive charging technology is about 10 percent less efficient than delivering power using cords.There are no wireless charging standards for electric vehicles, but someday the technology could be integrated into roads and highways to continuously charge electric vehicles, effectively putting an end to range anxiety.&quot;One aspect of this project is to integrate this technology into the road surface and to take energy directly from there to power the car,&quot; says Johan Konnberg, project manager for Volvo. But it won't be any time soon, he adds.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Politico sues Facebook because he lost election]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=politico-sues-facebook-because-he-lost-election</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pnojubimJohn1</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=politico-sues-facebook-because-he-lost-election</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nothing is ever truly serious unless a politician says it or does it.So there can be no question that Facebook has been been rocked to its sneakers by a lawsuit served upon it from on high by a would-be Michigan congressman.Majed Moughni was a Republican candidate for Congress last year. He failed in this quest, coming fourth in the Republican primary in Michigan's 15th district. However, according to The Detroit News, Moughni seems to believe that the reason he lost was Facebook.Moughni, you see, had a cunning plan to defeat U.S. Rep. John Dingell. As his lawsuit puts it: &quot;In an attempt to overthrow the Dingell Dynasty, (I) devised a plan to use Facebook to accumulate thousands of friends, who in turn would spread the message and overseat the longest-serving member of Congress.&quot;I once sat on a plane that was overseated, but I didn't know one could actually do that to a member of Congress. Still, Moughni seems adamant that his overseating plan was scuppered when Facebook sank his page on the site. Moughni has a new and very active Facebook page. But the takedown happened last June.On Monday, Moughni posted to his current Facebook page: &quot;This lawsuit was filed to address the lack of due process at Facebook. Imagine for a minute if your Facebook page was deactivated. What took you years to accumulate is forever erased. Your posts, photos, and memories are gone forever. As we...speak, Facebook has no due process, no appeal, and no live person to communicate with.&quot;The Dearborn Press and Guide reported that Moughni had about 1,600 friends when Facebook took action. He reportedly believes Facebook shut him down because he had criticized his opponent's need to introduce a resolution in solidarity with Detroit Tigers pitcher Andres Galarraga, who was denied a perfect game by a myopically blown umpire's call.I am serious. These are politicians, rememberFacebook, for its part, believes it has a perfectly reasonable explanation. Spokesman Andrew Noyes told the Detroit News that the account had been flagged for &quot;suspicious or anomalous behavior.&quot; Well, of course the behavior was suspicious and anomalous: 1,600 people were showing interest in a local politician.Noyes reportedly insisted that before a shutdown, the system always sends a pop-up warning that cautions a user not to, for example, send multiple messages to people who are not friends.Moughni does seem rather emotional about the whole thing. He told the Detroit News: &quot;They disorganized us in the middle of our campaign and we lost. Facebook took us off the market. They took us off the face of the earth.&quot;But, having returned to the face of the earth, he reportedly doesn't want money. He wants an injunction that tells Facebook it cannot close an account without a right of appeal.I am sure there are many who will have some sympathy with Moughni's pain. Facebook can appear so heavy-handedly draconian sometimes, such as when it once censored a doll's nipples.And Moughni is a lawyer, so he presumably knows how to put Facebook's back up against the wall, legally.Surely this is the perfect scenario for &quot;The Social Network 2.&quot; The small town Michigan politician drags Jesse Eisenberg into court, cross-examines him to tears, wins his case, then wins an election, and, um, becomes the next president of the United States.You'd go to see that, wouldn't you <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[At Demo Spring, a 'social' tsunami]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=at-demo-spring-a-social-tsunami</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pnojubimJohn1</dc:creator>
<category>Gaming</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=at-demo-spring-a-social-tsunami</guid>
<description><![CDATA[PALM DESERT, Calif.--Demo has been hit by a social tsunami.For two days at the Demo Spring conference here, just about every presentation hit on the idea of social interaction, either directly, or indirectly. It almost seems that unless a company's product had a serious social element to it, Demo wouldn't consider opening up a speaking slot.From applications that let users instantly tweet photos of themselves trying on clothes in a virtual dressing room to browser plug-ins that enable real-time interactive conversations right on Web pages to services that promise to bring the wisdom of the crowds to search engines, there's little doubt that this show was all about social.It's no surprise that Demo would go this direction, given that just about everywhere you look these days, Twitter and Facebook are the most popular kids in the room. With 600 million Facebook users and 200 million Twitter accounts, it's gotten to the point where if you're not carrying on your life via social media, you're being left behind. It's also not surprising that when Charlie Sheen joins Twitter, as he did yesterday, he could accrue 111,000 followers without having made a single tweet. As of this writing, that is. About an hour before these words were typed, Sheen's twitter account had just 35,000 followers. This is a new world. And the folks behind Demo are doing their best to make it clear that the show is still relevant in the face of pressure from similar shows like Michael Arrington's Disrupt and Jason Calacanis' Launch. And that means putting together a roster of companies whose products will appeal to an audience of press and investors keyed in to the ubiquity of social media throughout today's world.That would explain the agenda at this week's show. On Tuesday, for example, the schedule featured three separate sessions entitled &quot;Demofocus on social and media technologies.&quot; There were so many companies that fit into that general category--15, to be precise--that they needed to be split into the three sessions. There were also one-on-one discussions onstage with titles like &quot;How social media is affecting new e-commerce,&quot; &quot;How the social wave is impacting investments in early stage companies,&quot; &quot;How sales happen in the new age of social and data networking,&quot; &quot;How social media is affecting security in the enterprise,&quot; and &quot;How social trends are affecting the product building process.&quot;It all makes your head spin a bit. It also wasn't the first time Demo based its programming on a major topic. In recent years, mobile has been the hot topic at the conference, with a focus on iPhone applications dominating the stage.And Demo Spring wasn't entirely about social. Other hot topics were well represented. Yesterday's afternoon session was all about cloud technologies, with companies spending their 6 minutes to introduce the audience to a wide variety of topics related to Web-based applications.But if you know anything about cloud services, you also know that many of them are built around making it easier for people to interact with their social applications. So, for example, Nimble, which presented during the cloud session, is a service that helps users bring all their social services--Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Gmail, and so on--together in a single dashboard. From there, they can do deep dives into the social graph that emerges from the collective community of people whose constant updates appear, and the never-ending supply of information that those people produce. At the same time, Tuesday afternoon's session, &quot;Demofocus on mobile technologies,&quot; featured a group of companies whose smartphone- andtablet-based applications were also frequently built around social. This is an actual quote from an executive from one of the companies that presented during the mobile session: It's a &quot;social mobile app that's poised to change the way people communicate with each other around the world.&quot; I could tell you which company uttered those words, but they probably could just as well have been part of a dozen different presentations during the show's two days.Another company, News360, is positioning its news aggregationiPad app by asserting that &quot;any successful mobile news platform needs to have three [elements]: Real-time, local,&quot; and, yes, &quot;social.&quot; And Screenreach came up just minutes later with its Screach mobile app designed to let any smartphone interact easily with any screen on any device. And guess what It's &quot;social,&quot; and &quot;sits on top of Facebook.&quot;Is this a bad thing Not at all. People are interested in social because applications and services that connect us make us feel closer to friends, family, and even strangers. And in a world where so many of us spend so much time in front of computers and mobile devices, anything that helps us feel like we're closer to more people is a plus.And for investors and press who know that social is hot, coming to Demo and seeing one presenter after another pay homage to the subject is a validation that they're on the right track. Venture capitalists need to know that coming to a show like this is going to result in finding companies working on some of the very latest technology in the field with the most buzz. And reporters need to know that they can find stories tied to such a newsworthy topic.The only problem is that over the course of two days, such a single-minded focus gets a bit overwhelming. It makes you start to think that the world of technology no longer has the diversity that can keep a wide variety of people alert throughout a conference like Demo. If you're not all that interested in social, after all, you probably stopped watching the presentations pretty quickly. Then again, if you're not into social, maybe coming to a tech conference in February 2011 isn't all that smart.Social, of course, is a very, very broad concept that can encompass many different areas of technology, from consumer electronics to enterprise applications, and, as we've seen here at Demo, everything in between. With Demo now over, the question is what topic could dominate the show as much as this in the future. My guess is that for the next couple iterations of the show, social will continue to be the hottest area--since it is only growing. The same is surely happening at other tech conferences, and I don't think it's likely to stop anytime soon.It all does make me look back at Charlie Sheen's Twitter account, though. By the time I wrote these words, he was up to 267,000 followers. And counting.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook selling user content to advertisers]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=facebook-selling-user-content-to-advertisers</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pnojubimJohn1</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=facebook-selling-user-content-to-advertisers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Your Facebook content may soon find its way into ads on the social network.Facebook unveiled details yesterday about a new advertising initiative called Sponsored Stories. The effort allows advertisers to find mentions of their brands--either through Places check-ins, recommendations in a news feed, likes, or actions in a Facebook application--and repurpose them as advertisements on the site.Screenshot of Facebook&amp;39's video featuring Sponsored Stories.(Credit:Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET)Facebook said that if a person currently checks in at a respective company's store or &quot;likes&quot; a brand page, the action often gets lost amid all the other content a user's friends may see. Sponsored Stories solves that problem for advertisers by plucking valuable content from user news feeds and making it more readily noticeable to others.Facebook is charging advertisers on a CPC and CPM basis. The company was also quick to point out that at no time will it make a user's personal information available in a Sponsored Story.The Sponsored Stories, which kicked off yesterday for Facebook's &quot;premium&quot; advertisers, will be labeled and viewable only to the content creator's friends, Facebook noted. The service will respect a person's privacy settings. However, Facebook users won't be able to opt out of the service. That's somewhat surprising, since Facebook users can modify their inclusion in the company's existing Social Ads by letting their social actions be included in a marketer's ad on the site and be shown to friends--or opt out.In a video, Facebook talks up the word-of-mouth aspect of Sponsored Stories. The company said people want to know what their friends care about and that friends' opinions have more authority than a simple ad from a company trying to market its products.&quot;When we make decisions about the products we want to buy, the places we want to go, we're basically looking for cues from our friends about what those things should be,&quot; Facebook product manager Kent Schoen said in the video. &quot;And all of us aren't out there trying to market ourselves or trying to influence people to go somewhere or do something. But the reality is, when we make a decision, we're looking for information. And we want that information to come from people we trust.&quot;Inevitably, comparisons will be drawn between Sponsored Stories and Twitter's Promoted Tweets. At first glance, they are somewhat similar because they both use content on the respective social networks. However, unlike Sponsored Stories, Promoted Tweets feature content created by marketers, which is then advertised on the site.Even without help from Sponsored Stories, Facebook's advertising revenue continues to grow by leaps and bounds.According to a study released earlier this week by research firm eMarketer, the social network generated more than $1.8 billion in ad revenue last year. The research firm expects that figure to jump to $4.05 billion this year and reach more than $5.7 billion in 2011.Updated at 12:01 p.m. PTto include more details on Sponsored Stories.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Buffett-backed EV car maker set to enter U.S. in '12]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=buffett-backed-ev-car-maker-set-to-enter-u-s--in-12</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pnojubimJohn1</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=buffett-backed-ev-car-maker-set-to-enter-u-s--in-12</guid>
<description><![CDATA[BYD, a Chinesecar and battery maker backed by investor Warren Buffett, expects to enter the mass U.S. auto market in the first quarter of 2012, starting with its e6 all-electric car model, its chairman said yesterday.&quot;The United States offers a huge opportunity for new-energy vehicles, especially pure electric,&quot; Chairman Wang Chuanfu told Reuters in an interview at the Detroit auto show.&quot;Many auto companies will pay attention to this market, and BYD will take this opportunity as well,&quot; he said through a translator, adding he wants BYD to lead in the field of electric cars and buses in the world's second-biggest auto market.BYD&amp;39's all-electric e6(Credit:BYD)&quot;Our strategy in the U.S. market will probably focus on the pure electric segment,&quot; he said.In its fourth consecutive appearance at the Detroit auto show, BYD is showcasing a series of electric vehicles, including the e6 and S6DM models, and other products such as solar panels and home energy storage units.Wang said that while BYD has yet to work out in which U.S. cities and states to set up dealerships first, he expected to begin selling the zero-emission e6 as its first model in the first quarter of next year, followed by the S6DM, and eventually electric buses.The company will work with independent dealers to set up a sales network in the United States.BYD began pilot sales in Los Angeles at the end of 2010, and Wang said he hoped to expand test-marketing over the coming year.The company has said it expects the e6 to cost around $42,000, meaning it would likely need subsidies and other incentives to appeal to consumers.Story Copyright (c) 2010 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mobile security firm warns of new Android Trojan]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=mobile-security-firm-warns-of-new-android-trojan</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pnojubimJohn1</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=mobile-security-firm-warns-of-new-android-trojan</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lookout Mobile Security, which just raised fresh capital to boost its fight against mobile malware, said it has identified the peskiest cell phone threat to date. The Android Trojan, dubbed Geinimi, has cropped up in China and is capable of taking a significant amount of personal data and sending it to remote servers. Lookout said Geinimi displays botnet-like qualities and is the most sophisticated wireless malware it has seen. Thus far, infected programs have only been seen on various Chinese app stores. &quot;Geinimi is effectively being 'grafted' onto repackaged versions of legitimate applications, primarily games, and distributed in third-party Chinese Android app markets,&quot; Lookout said in a blog post on Wednesday. &quot;The affected applications request extensive permissions over and above the set that is requested by their legitimate original versions.&quot; The security firm said it has already updated both the paid and free versions of its software to protect against Geinimi.Story Copyright (c) 2010 AllThingsD. All rights reserved.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter joins Facebook, Google with D.C. hire]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=twitter-joins-facebook-google-with-d-c--hire</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 07:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pnojubimJohn1</dc:creator>
<category>Politics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=twitter-joins-facebook-google-with-d-c--hire</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Twitter has just hired its first employee in Washington, D.C.The microblogging site confirmed today that Adam Sharp, currently an executive producer for digital services at C-SPAN and former Democratic Senate staffer to Mary Landrieu, will be the company's manager of government and political partnerships.Sharp said--through Twitter, of course --that he'll start on November 29. He posted: &quot;Look fwd to working w/learning from gov20 community &amp; others committed to enhancing civic debate by bringing govt, people closer together.&quot;That job description is less traditional lobbyist and more governmental liaison, working with federal agencies and politicians to embrace Twitter as an evangelist, rather than pressing for legislation to be enacted or blocked.Unlike Google, Facebook, MySpace, and other Web companies, Twitter has not been targeted by the privacy, copyright, or other online eruptions that roil Capitol Hill with surprising frequency. (Though Twitter has joined a pro-Net neutrality coalition.)Because Twitter doesn't host photos or videos, it hasn't had to face the same copyright concerns that have bedeviled YouTube. And because its default setting for posts is public, the San Francisco-based company hasn't had to fend off the same level of official scrutiny as Facebook and MySpace have.Last year, Facebook hired former journalist Andrew Noyes as a Washington-based spokesman, and Google has operated a combination policy and sales office in the District of Columbia for a few years.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Apple sues Motorola: A look at the complaints]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=apple-sues-motorola-a-look-at-the-complaints</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pnojubimJohn1</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=apple-sues-motorola-a-look-at-the-complaints</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Apple has sued Motorola over multitouch patents in two separate lawsuits.The complaints, first reported by Patently Apple, were filed Oct. 29 and cover six patents. In the first complaint, the main document is only 9 pages, but one exhibit--patent 7,479,949--is broken into two parts and weighs in at a whopping 362 pages. Motorola on Oct. 6 sued Apple for patent infringement.Read more of &quot;Apple sues Motorola: A look at the complaints&quot; at ZD Net.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Oracle: Google directly copied Java code]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=oracle-google-directly-copied-java-code</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pnojubimJohn1</dc:creator>
<category>Business &amp; Finance</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=oracle-google-directly-copied-java-code</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Oracle has amended its patent-infringement lawsuit against Google over Android and provided line-by-line comparisons in its exhibits.In its tweaked complaint, Oracle ups the ante against Google, which has called the lawsuit baseless. Oracle, which filed suit against Google over Android in August, makes this allegation:In at least several instances, Android computer program code also was directly copied from copyrighted Oracle America code. For example, as may be readily seen in Exhibit J, the source code in Android's &quot;PolicyNodeImpl.java&quot; class is nearly identical to &quot;PolicyNodeImpl.java&quot; in Oracle America's Java, not just in name, but in the source code on a line-for-line basis.Read more of &quot;Oracle says Google directly copied Java code: Here's the line-by-line comparison&quot; at ZDNet's Between the Lines.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Confirmed: Ebay Acquires Milo For $75 Million. Investors Make A&nbsp'Killing.]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=confirmed-ebay-acquires-milo-for-75-million--investors-make-anbspkilling-</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pnojubimJohn1</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=confirmed-ebay-acquires-milo-for-75-million--investors-make-anbspkilling-</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An update to our post earlier today: We&amp;'ve confirmed that local shopping startup Milo has in fact been acquired by eBay, for $75 million. Business Insider first reported on the possible deal earlier today. Milo CEO Jack Abraham confirmed the acquisition via a Tweet and eBay issued a press release. Investors in the company certainly did well.  They raised just $5 million in venture capital. We&amp;'ve heard that True Ventures, which led the Series A round, owns some 25% of the company prior to acquisition. If accurate, they just pocketed nearly $20 million, a 10x or more return on an investment made a year ago.So what is Milo Essentially the site lists real-time in-store product inventory for over 50,000 stores accross the country' featuring over 3 million products from Target, Macya4a4s, Best Buy, Crate &amp;amp' Barrel and more.The one problem Milo faces is that Google has started playing in the same space. Earlier this year, Google Product Search  launched Blue Dot, on mobile search. Similar to Milo, Blue Dot allowed users within search to see if a product is in-stock at nearby stores. However, Milo countered back then that Google doesn&amp;'t have the inventory reach that Milo has. A few weeks ago, Google unleashed a new version of Product Search, with more inventory listings from 70 popular retail brands, many of whom also list with Milo.Milo struck back with a coupon feature and also previously launched an Android app, but having Google as a competitor is no doubt daunting for any bootstrapped startup. Especially in the search game. For eBay, Milo represents just another way to get into the $917 billion market of online research to offline buying. And Forrester estimates that this will eventually reach $1.3 trillion and account for nearly 50% of total retail sales by 2013. eBay plans to bring the inventories of its sellers to Milo. The company will also integrate Miloa4a4s local product feeds into both its online marketplace and mobile applications. eBay&amp;'s barcode-scanning iPhone application RedLaser will also feature Milo local results.And Abraham did add this via a Tweet: &amp;''Within eBay we will complete our mission of bringing every product, on every shelf, of every store in the physical world onto the internet.&amp;''CrunchBase InformationMiloeBayInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Diapers.com Wants Nothing To Do With New Parent Amazon&'s&nbsp'Pedophilia-philia]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=diapers-com-wants-nothing-to-do-with-new-parent-amazonrsquosnbsppedophilia-philia</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pnojubimJohn1</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Earlier today TechCrunch reported that Amazon is selling a book titled The Pedophilea4a4s Guide to Love and Pleasure, and later in the day Amazon defended its sale. More sickening, people are actually buying it &amp;8211' it&amp;'s brokena4sthe top 100.As this disgusting saga plays out, something really interesting is going on behind the scenes. Guess who Amazon just acquired last week for $545 million a4sDiapers.com. Guess who Diapers.com sells products to Yep &amp;8211' Moms and Dads with little kids.Take a look at this FaceBook thread with an official response from Diapers.com. Moms are in outrage. And Diapers.com wants no connection.&amp;''Hi Everyone. While our parent company has been purchased by Amazon.com we have NO control over what is sold on their site. If there are any complaints or concerns please send them to Amazon.com&amp;''Ita4a4s evident that the timing on this acquisition could hurt both companies. But the linkage to selling such an awful book could be even worse for Amazon for a more subtle reason.Ita4a4s extremely likely that there is a high overlap in the customer base between Diapers.com and Amazon, since both are dominant e-tailers. Diapers.com customers are not only less likely to buy diapers from either Amazon or Diapers.com (to boycott the pending acquisition), but they are also less likely to buy ANYTHING from Amazon. And therea4a4s no doubt they shop online at both places.Ita4a4s also ironic timing, because I can guarantee that if Diapers.com were still independent, theya4a4d be ALL OVER this story to pound Amazon in to a pulp by saying something damning publicly. Remember, prior to last weeka4a4s acquisition, the two companies were in all-out pricing war.Herea4a4s the financial background on why this could be material for Amazon. Companies a4&quot; ranging from Starbucks to Amazon a4&quot; relentlessly track a4Acustomer lifetime valuea4 or CLV, which depends on the cost to acquire a customer, and the retention rate (or churn) of that customer over her lifetime. The biggest determinant in maximizing CLV is a4&quot; by far a4&quot; retention. When you lose her, CLV falls off a cliff.This kind of stuff is a big deal in the brand sphere as well. In 2010 Interbrand declared Amazon the 36th  most respected brand, with only Apple and Google notching a larger year-on-year increase than Amazon of the top 50.When the news of this pedophile saga goes mainstream it could be the type of thing that permanently tinges Amazona4a4s image. Right now, a search for a4Apedophile amazona4 on Google news is returning more and more hits to mainstream news sites like LA Times. a4sAnd pretty soon people will discover some of the other totally insane books that Amazon sells.So, addition to it being disgusting that Amazon is defending its actions, as Mike writes, it may be a pretty bad financial decision too. Personally, I am considering cancelling my Amazon Prime account and shopping elsewhere. What do all the Moms out there thinkCrunchBase InformationAmazonAmazon KindleInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gadgets galore! Consumer electronics to outpace world economy in 2011]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As the world&amp;'s economic recovery continues, the global consumer electronics market is expected to grow 10 percent in 2011 to $964 billion, according to a new forecast by the Consumer Electronics Association.That&amp;'s more than twice as fast as the Conference Board&amp;'s projection for the world&amp;'s gross domestic product, a measure of the size of the total economy. World GDP is expected to grow just 4.5 percent in 2011.In other words, the gadget economy is becoming a bigger and bigger part of the business world &amp;8212' and may be one of its more important growth engines.The positive numbers should reinforce a sense of optimism in tech circles about the continuing recovery, and it should inspire companies from the smallest startups to the biggest conglomerates to keep investing for a stage of continued growth.&amp;''It&amp;'s clear that global retail sales of tech products have rebounded,&amp;'' said Steve Koenig, analyst at the CEA, which puts on CES. &amp;''Technology is at the vanguard in leading the recovery.&amp;''The CEA released the information at a press event at the beginning of the Consumer Electronics Show, the tech extravaganza in Las Vegas this week. If the year turns out better than expected, consumer electronics sales could very well top $1 trillion in 2011, said Koenig. Consumers are going for three screens: TVs, PCs, and phones.In 2010, sales worldwide grew 13 percent to $873 billion. That was after sales fell 9 percent to $770 billion in 2009 in the midst of the big recession. The fastest growing category in 2010 was smartphones, which grew 51 percent. In 2010, smartphones are expected to grow 59 percent, and mobile PCs are expected to grow 26 percent. By contrast, video game consoles shrank in sales for the second consecutive year, mainly because consoles launched five years ago are getting near saturation.In 2010, the recovery came across the board. Almost every region&amp;'s sales grew. Japan was flat, but China consumer electronics sales grew 25 percent and Africa grew 70 percent, coming off a low base. By comparison, most regions of the world saw lower sales in 2009.In 2011, North American sales will grow 15 percent, Western Europe will grow 23 percent, China will grow 15 percent, and Japan will grow 8 percent.North America&amp;'s share of overall sales is now 15 percent, compared to 19 percent in 2010 and 24 percent in 2007. Meanwhile, China will grow from 13 percent of the world market in 2010 to 15 percent in 2011. That&amp;'s a sign that consumer electronics sales are taking off in emerging markets.Wireless handsets grew 13 percent in 2010 and should grow 11 percent in 2011, compared to a 5 percent drop in 2009.[Top photo via CEA' bottom by Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat]Next Story: Group texting startup GroupMe raises $10.6M despite being a long way from revenue Previous Story: Tesla employee: Model S alpha prototype up and runningPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: CES, CES 2011, consumer electronics sales, mobile PCs, smartphonesCompanies: Consumer Electronics AssociationPeople: Steve Koenig          Tags: CES, CES 2011, consumer electronics sales, mobile PCs, smartphonesCompanies: Consumer Electronics AssociationPeople: Steve KoenigDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.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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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft, Yahoo may finally embrace with search, advertising deal]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Science</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=microsoft-yahoo-may-finally-embrace-with-search-advertising-deal</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Update: Such a deal has just been announced.Yahoo and Microsoft are close to a search and advertising deal that would finally bring them together in a fight against Google&amp;'s dominance, according to the Wall Street Journal. Yahoo would use Microsoft&amp;'s Bing search engine for its properties and handle sales for some text ads in search results. The deal would deliver the pair 30 percent of the search market against Google&amp;'s 65 percent.For Microsoft, the agreement would boost traffic for its newly launched Bing search engine and give the company part of what it wanted in its failed takeover attempt. Yahoo would get to continue selling advertising and cut costs by relinquishing an expensive effort to keep up with Google&amp;'s search technology. The deal wouldn&amp;'t include an upfront payment to Yahoo and would instead focus on a revenue share, according to AllThingsD.Yahoo&amp;'s once icy relationship with Microsoft has thawed since the arrival of Yahoo&amp;'s new CEO, Carol Bartz, who said in May she was open to talking to Microsoft if the deal came with a4Aboatloads of money,a4 a4Agood dataa4 and a4Agood technology.a4Next Story: New Twitter homepage puts search at its heart Previous Story: Roundup: Sprint / Virgin, Microsoft / Yahoo, VentureBeat on TechmemePrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: advertising, searchCompanies: co:google, Microsoft, Yahoo          Tags: advertising, searchCompanies: co:google, Microsoft, YahooKim-Mai covered social networking for VentureBeat until July 2010. To reach VentureBeat's current writers, email tips@venturebeat.com.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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<title><![CDATA[Silver Lake launches new cleantech fund with George Soros&'s firm]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Eco</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=silver-lake-launches-new-cleantech-fund-with-george-sorosrsquos-firm</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Private equity firm Silver Lake is teaming up with billionaire George Soros&amp;'s fund to invest in &amp;''the energy and resource sectors.&amp;''The new fund is called Silver Lake Kraftwerk (the press release refers to it as &amp;''SLKW&amp;'') andwill be led by Adam Grosser, who spent a decade as general partner at Foundation Capital, where he worked on major cleantech investments like Silver Spring Networks and Enernoc. He also previously worked at Apple, Sony and Lucasfilms. Cathy Zoi will also join the fund in April' she recently left her job as the Department of Energy&amp;'s undersecretary for energy and assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy.&amp;''There are many parallels between the development of the technology sector and the innovation that is occurring in the energy and resource sectors today,&amp;'' said Silver Lake managing director Greg Mondre in a statement. &amp;''We are excited to launch Silver Lake&amp;'s fourth investment strategy.&amp;''Mondre&amp;'s comment seems to reflect some of the convergence we&amp;'ve been seeing lately of traditional venture capital in Silicon Valley and cleantech. With energy efficiency and building controls shaping up to be a big trend this year, investors with IT experience may find their expertise translatable to startups doing things like home energy automation, programmable lighting systems and energy management software.The size of the fund wasn&amp;'t disclosed, but it&amp;'s certainly got some financial and professional heft behind it. This is a bit of bright news for cleantech investing, which saw a slow  down in VC investments over the last two quarters after a record $7.8 billion of venture capital invested in the U.S. last year. Investors seem to be trending towards capital efficiency as fundraising has slowed for venture capital funds, hitting a new low since 2003. Worldwide, investment jumped 30 percent over 2009&amp;'s numbers to reach $243 billion in 2010.George Soros (pictured) has previously pledged to invest $1 billion in cleantech. SLKW is &amp;''focused on providing growth capital to business innovators in the energy and resource sectors&amp;'' and will operate in Silicon Valley and China. China has made ambitious pledges to grow the smart grid and renewables &amp;8212' it already heavily subsidizes the solar manufacturing industry, is competing in wind turbines and wants to speed up electric car adoption. Last year, venture capital firm VantagePoint opened a $100 million fund dedicated to renewables investing in China.The fund will target growth-stage companies with &amp;''proven technologies and business models.&amp;''[Image via Flickr/World Economic Forum]Next Story: Room 77 helps you find the best hotel room Previous Story: Ask the accountant: How much time do I have leftPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: cleantech investing, energy efficiency, renewables, Silver Lake KraftwerkCompanies: DOE, Foundation Capital, Silver Lake, Soros FundPeople: Adam Grosser, Cathy Zoi, George Soros, Greg Mondre          Tags: cleantech investing, energy efficiency, renewables, Silver Lake KraftwerkCompanies: DOE, Foundation Capital, Silver Lake, Soros FundPeople: Adam Grosser, Cathy Zoi, George Soros, Greg MondreIris 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). 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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<title><![CDATA[Halloween&'s Over Yahoo, So Turn The Lights Back&nbsp'On]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=halloweenrsquos-over-yahoo-so-turn-the-lights-backnbspon</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yahoo.com is down again for the second time in as many weeks. Which is news because Yahoo never goes down. Except recently. And they&amp;'re probably so busy dealing with that outage that no one noticed that Halloween is over, and so they should probably stop promoting it on Yahoo Shopping.The Yahoo Shopping slip up is actually more interesting than the outage because it&amp;'s not a technology problem, it&amp;'s just indifference. They&amp;'ll issue some statement around the outage like they did last time, and it&amp;'s clearly an engineering issue. But there are people who actually run the Yahoo Shopping site and are responsible for promoting this and that, and nearly 24 hours after the holiday is over they&amp;'ve still got it up as their main promotion. Not a good sign.Will the last person out please turn the lights back on<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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