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<title><![CDATA[Netflix: Why Time Warner slams us]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Time Warner's very public bashing of Netflix in recent weeks is a result of the media conglomerate's frustration over having to bid against the Web's top video-rental service for Warner Bros. content, says a Netflix executive. (Credit:HBO)If it weren't for Netflix bidding up the price, Time Warner, parent company of pay TV service HBO, would have an easier time acquiring Warner Bros. content after the licensing deal between the studio and HBO expires in 2014. That is what Ted Sarandos, Netflix's content-acquisition chief, said today at a conference in Miami, according to PaidContent. Presumably, this is an issue now because interested parties will start negotiating for Warner Bros' content long before the deal with Time Warner runs out. Sarandos was asked during the National Association of Television Programming Executives about some of the hostile statements made in recent weeks by Time Warner managers and this is what he had to say, according to PaidContent and the Hollywood Reporter: &quot;We will be an aggressive bidder for [Warner Bros.] programming,&quot; Sarandos told the audience. &quot;That will be good for Warner Bros., not so good for HBO...That's why I think there's some aggravation.&quot; Over the past two months, Time Warner executives, including CEO Jeff Bewkes, have dismissed Netflix as a lightweight. In interviews, Bewkes rejected the possibility that Netflix's Internet-streaming service was a legitimate challenger to cable or could alter Hollywood's distribution model. He made this comparison: &quot;Is the Albanian army going to take over the world&quot; Bewkes told The New York Times. &quot;I don't think so.&quot; In the past, Bewkes and his lieutenants criticized Netflix for paying too little for content and have suggested that studio chiefs who do deals with Netflix are suckers. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[LED company files for $150 million public offering &8211' is this the year for cleantech IPOs]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Florida-based LED maker Lighting Science Group (LSG) announced today it has filed for a $150 million IPO.The news follows this week&amp;'s successful IPO of Gevo, a biofuels and biochemicals company (that has never turned a profit) that raised $107 million on public markets and was able to command share prices at the high end of its offering range.So, could this finally be the year cleantech IPOs gain tractionLSG is something of a unique case. It makes LED products for commercial and retail establishments (pictured) and has had its products used in installations for Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy&amp;'s and Bryant Park. The company&amp;'s stocks are already traded on the OTC Bulletin Board ($4.27 per share at the time of this writing), and the IPO plans would be trade its stocks on the Nasdaq. While LSG isn&amp;'t venture-backed, the majority ownership belongs to private equity firm Pegasus Capital Advisors, the same fund behind the IPO of Molycorp, the U.S. rare earths mining company whose stock spiked earlier this year on fears of undersupply of rare earths. Still, a $150 million LEDs public offering is nothing to sniff at, especially if LSG can pull it off successfully.Asked last year about the cleantech IPOs market in 2010, venture capitalist Nat Goldhaber of Claremont Creek Ventures replied that it had been &amp;''recalcitrant.&amp;'' However, he&amp;'s expecting 2011 to be a good year for more public offerings in cleantech. Among his potential IPO candidates are solar thermal company BrightSource Energy and the long-speculated IPO candidate Silver Spring Networks, a smart grid companyacknowledgedto be one of the most successful venture-backed startups in the space.Venture capitalist Alan Salzman of VantagePoint, who has backed Tesla and BrightSource, is also betting 2011 will be a good year for cleantech deals. He told Reuters that he believes IPOs this year will come from utility-scale solar power plants, algae oils, smart grid components andthin-film solar panel makers (many companies in this space have recently received funding and are planning to build factories).&amp;''You&amp;'re going to see much more of an active pipeline,&amp;'' Salzman said. &amp;''You will see five to 10 significant, multibillion dollar IPOs in the U.S. this year, and as many meaningful acquisitions.&amp;''Rachel Sheinbeinof CMEA Capital spoke with VentureBeat recently about how venture capital fund-raising has declined and how that will affect the types of investing many VCs can do &amp;8212' namely, most investing will trend towards capital efficiency and in fact already has begun to. However, she&amp;'s seeing glimmers of hope:&amp;''There is some momentum off a couple of IPOs late last year that returned very well for their investors. Once you start seeing that momentum, there&amp;'s interest from the public (markets),&amp;'' Sheinbein said.Last year did see a few successes, most notably Tesla&amp;'s $226 million public offering in June. SemiLEDs, a Taiwanese company, also had a successful IPO. Biofuels companies Amyris annd Codexis also publicly debuted at the lower ends of their offering ranges. Long-standing smart meter company Elster also went public last fall. Enel Green, a branch of Italy power company Enel, had the largest cleantech IPO last year in Madrid, raising $3.6 billion. Several Chinese companies also ranked in the top 10 IPOs of last year.LEDs are part of the overall boom in energy efficiency, as we wrote last year, as are companies that specialize in building energy management and energy-reducing, sensor-based and programmable lighting systems. In fact, earlier this week, Silicon Valley LED-maker Bridgelux raised $21 million. Energy efficiency is by all accounts expected to be a hot topic this year. Next Story: Bing Gordon&amp;'s love poem to the game industry, and to me (video and poem text) Previous Story: Why RIM needs Android apps on the PlayBook and beyondPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: biofuels, cleantech, energy efficiency, IPO, LEDs, SolarCompanies: Amyris, BrightSource Energy, Claremont Creek Ventures, CMEA Capital, Codexis, Gevo, Lighting Science Group, Molycorp, Pegasus Capital Advisors, Silver Spring Networks, Tesla, VantagePointPeople: Alan Salzman, Nat Goldhaber, Rachel Sheinbein          Tags: biofuels, cleantech, energy efficiency, IPO, LEDs, SolarCompanies: Amyris, BrightSource Energy, Claremont Creek Ventures, CMEA Capital, Codexis, Gevo, Lighting Science Group, Molycorp, Pegasus Capital Advisors, Silver Spring Networks, Tesla, VantagePointPeople: Alan Salzman, Nat Goldhaber, Rachel SheinbeinIris 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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