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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Turkey arrests 32 after Anonymous' Web attacks]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Anonymous coordinated an attack on Turkish government Web sites on Friday to protest censorship.(Credit:screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)After hacker group Anonymous' apparently successful Operation Turkey to protest Internet censorship, the country's authorities have detained 32 people in connection with the attack on Turkish government Web sites.After Friday's attack, Turkey's telecommunications authorities investigated and took the people into custody, according to a report today by Turkey's state news agency. Eight of those detained were under 18 years old, the report said.The arrests come just days after Spain said Friday it arrested three Anonymous hackers in connection with attacks on Sony'sPlayStation Network, governments, banks, and others. Retribution followed quickly, with an Anonymous attack that reportedly took a Spanish police off the Net.The attacks take the form of a distributed denial of service (DDoS), which involves a coordinated flooding of a Web site with traffic with specially crafted network tools.Security firm Sophos, though, said the Turkish attackers apparently used an attack tool called LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) that isn't terribly anonymous.&quot;LOIC...doesn't do a very good job of covering your tracks--making it potentially easy for computer crime authorities to track those behind the attacks,&quot; said Sophos' Graham Cluley.A loose group of angry hacktivists is only one force spotlighting the Net's vulnerabilities today. The International Monetary Fund suffered what was reported over the weekend to be a major network breach. Google said it disrupted a plan the company said originated from China to break into Gmail accounts. It's open season for hackers.One person's illicit hacker might be another person's sanctioned military authority, though. The United States and United Kingdom increasingly talk of cyberwar as just a facet of ordinary war.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Shopkick: Our users are checking into deals]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Shopkick, a check-in application which lets retailers market offers to consumers, is showing some impressive growth numbers, according to Business Insider. Since its launch in August 2010, the company has attracted 750,000 users and is doing 1 million check ins a day in just 6 months.Shopkick has been described as the &amp;''Foursquare for shoppers.&amp;'' The comparison to the most popular general-purpose check-in service, used by friends to announce their locations to each other, isn&amp;'t a surprise. Where Foursquare allows businesses to offer &amp;''specials&amp;'' to its users, Shopkick users who download the iPhone or Android app can check in to millions of stores or restaurants and get &amp;''Kickbucks,&amp;'' which are redeemable for gift cards at a number of retailers.One differentiator: Shopkick doesn&amp;'t require users to actively check in to a location. Instead, they can passively &amp;''walk in&amp;'' to a store when carrying their smartphone and collect a reward. Participating retailers include major brands like American Eagle, Macy&amp;'s, Best Buy and Target, but Shopkick&amp;'s rollout is limited to storefronts in 18 markets at present.Even more interesting is the degree to which Shopkick users stay active. A recent Pew Internet study found that only 4 percent of online consumers use a check-in service &amp;8212' and that number had actually dropped in recent months. Shopkick doesn&amp;'t seem to be experiencing that same dropout problem: 10 percent of users are active daily, 20 percent are active weekly, and 40 percent are active at least once a month. Major location-based services like Foursquare and Gowalla have released signups and total check-ins, but not similar activity figures, raising questions about how active their millions of users really are.Shopkick isn&amp;'t the only service trying automatic check-ins. Mayor Maker, an iPhone app from Location Labs, lets users automatically check in on Foursquare. Placecast, a location-based ad company, launched ShopAlerts, which lets  users sign up at retailers to receive mobile alerts for deals when in  the vicinity of a store.Shopkick, based in Palo Alto, Calif. and founded in 2010, has raised a total of $20 million from Kleiner Perkins, Greylock,  Hoffman, Citi Growth Ventures &amp;amp' Innovation Group, and Ron Conwaya4a4s  SV Angel.Previous Story: Samsung comes clean on a4Aquite smalla4 Galaxy Tab salesPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Companies: Shopkick          Companies: ShopkickCody Barbierri is a social and digital media consultant. He works for Piehead and blogs about social media at Social Tab. (None of his posts are about clients or their competitors.) Reach him at Cody@venturebeat.com. You can also follow Cody on Twitter. 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[BrightSource raises $89M out of planned $100M for solar thermal]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Solar thermal company BrightSource Energy has raised $89.5 million out of a planned $100 million round, according to an SEC filing.Last summer, the company set out to raise $215 million and closed on $176 million of it as of June of last year. It also announced in May it had raised $150 million in equity financing from investors that included Alstrom, Draper Fisher Jurveston, Morgan Stanley and VantagePoint. The company is perennially bandied around as an IPO candidate, with a couple of folks betting that this will be the year.BrightSource has been flying high on a few successes, last year landing a $1.37 billion loan guarantee from the Department of Energy for its Ivanpah project, a 392-megawatt solar project that could generate enough energy to power up to 140,000 homes. The project is currently underway and uses BrightSource&amp;'s solar thermal technology, which involves using a field of mirrors in the Mojave Desert to reflect sunlight onto a point on &amp;''power towers&amp;'' that contain liquid that can be heated to generate the steam that turns electrical turbines (pictured).Power plant company NRG Energy has pledged to invest $300 million over the next three years in the Ivanpah project. And PG&amp;amp'E and Southern California Edison have all signed 20 to 25-year power purchase agreements to buy electricity generated at the site.BrightSource also has a deal with Chevron to build a 29-megawatt solar thermal plant at the site of one of Chevron&amp;'s oil fields in California.Next Story: Google asks users to help fight content farms Previous Story: Nokia and Microsoft: Can two weaklings make a musclemanPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: Solar, solar thermalCompanies: BrightSource Energy          Tags: Solar, solar thermalCompanies: BrightSource EnergyIris 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[Can Daimler partnership give China&'s electric car startup BYD a lift]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If youa4a4ve followed the autoindustry for a while youa4a4ll know that automakers are always sharing technology and projects in cross-collaborations that would normally make any paranoid hard-nosed capitalist weep in fear. But the latest firms to receive official blessing for a joint project might not be the strange bedfellows they appear at first.The unimaginatively named Shenzhen BYD Daimler New Technology Co Ltd has just been given a business licence by Chinese authorities nine months after the firms publicly announced their intent to work together.BYDa4a4s reputation in the electric car industry has been severely tarnished over the past few years as self-set deadlines on the U.S. introduction of its five seat e6 electric car (pictured) have flown by.Initially promised to come to market in 2010, the BYD e6 is now promised to select fleet customers by the end of 2011,with a range of 200 miles, an upgraded interior on the original Chinese version and an unbelievably low price-tag of $35,000 before incentives.So why would Daimler, an automaker known for its luxury high-endMercedes-Benz and Maybach divisions want to associate with an automaker whose sales of plug-in vehicles has been less than stellar, especially when it has an active 3.1 percent stake in the highly electric-car friendly Renault-Nissan under a joint electric car ventureThe answer may be simpler than it seems. Reputation.Despite protests to the contrary, wea4a4ve heard from many ex-pats that BYD isna4a4t a popularcarbrand in China. Given a choice, the growing middle classes in China prefer to buy prestige brands from Europe or America, using top-specification Mercedes-Benz,Audi or Chrysler vehicles.These upper middle-class status-symbol cars embody the drive towards externally capitalist lifestyles in what is still a communist country, while those without the means are left to drive Chinese brands. China now even hasits own version of the gear-jamming, consumerist Top Gear show, increasing desirability of non-Chinese brands.But it gets more complicated. Technically, a firm wishing to enter into the Chinese market must offer the Chinese government a majority shareholding &amp;8212' a risk for any large company wishing to enter the Chinese market.The solution for Daimler A partnership with BYD.Ita4a4s a symbiotic relationship. Daimler not only gets to benefit from BYDa4a4s extensive battery knowledge and manufacturing facilities, but it gets to further reach into a market crying out for its products without risking the companya4a4s future.In exchange, BYD receives extra credibility and upper-class appeal by associating itself with a brand known forluxury, reliability and exclusivity.While there may be all kinds of success for Shenzhen BYD Daimler New technology Co Ltd, wea4a4d like to offer BYD and Daimler a little advice of our own:While youa4a4re firm buddies in China, youa4a4re still competitors elsewhere.[AFP]Written by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield, this article originally appeared on All Cars Electric, one of VentureBeat&amp;'s editorial partners.Next Story: A first look at the iPad 2, up close and personal (video) Previous Story: Apple marks down original iPad  to $399PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: e6, electric carsCompanies: BYD, Daimler          Tags: e6, electric carsCompanies: BYD, Daimler 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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