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<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 07:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reports: Google to launch +1 for sites tomorrow]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 07:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Google has dialed up the love you can show Web sites, reportedly adding its nascent +1 button to the arsenal Web developers can deploy.The +1 button (pronounced &quot;plus one&quot;) is Google's answer to Facebook's prolific &quot;Like&quot; feature, where users can click on an icon to show appreciation for a site.In March, Google launched +1 as a way to let Web surfers like search results. That feature lets users who are logged in to their Google accounts keep tabs on their favorite search discoveries on Google, as well as giving the company tools to customize what sorts of ads it delivers. And the company uses the data from +1 to gauge the quality of its search results.Google&amp;39's +1 feature for Web searches(Credit:Google)The new +1 feature, first reported by TechCrunch and confirmed by Search Engine Land, will give sites the ability to add the +1 icon to their pages. What's unclear is how those clicks will show up for others. When a Facebook user &quot;likes&quot; a Web page, it can be seen by all their friends on Facebook, and now on some search queries in Microsoft's Bing. But Google has no similar social network, so it remains to be seen how a person's clicking +1 will show up to other users.&quot;Tomorrow we'll be talking about how the +1 button will further help people find and recommend great content across the Web,&quot; Google spokesman Jim Prosser wrote in an e-mail. &quot;We'll have more details with our announcement.&quot;Updated with Google comment at 3:20 pm PT.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.N.: Renewables could be 80 percent of energy by 2050]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=u-n--renewables-could-be-80-percent-of-energy-by-2050</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 07:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[ Renewable sources such as solar, wind, and hydropower could fulfill almost 80 percent of the world's energy demand by 2050 with the right policies, according to a U.N. report which won backing from governments today. The 26-page study, by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), broadly matched a draft written by scientists. It was approved by government delegates at talks in Abu Dhabi. Environmental groups hailed the report as a guide to the shift from fossil fuels to combat climate change, a process set to cost trillions of dollars. But they said some draft findings were watered down, partly due to opposition by oil exporters. &quot;Close to 80 percent of the world energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century if backed by the right enabling public policies,&quot; the IPCC said. The report said moves to cleaner energies including geothermal or ocean energy would help cut greenhouse gas emissions, which it blamed for global warming including floods, droughts, heat waves, and rising sea levels. Growth in renewables has already surged in recent years, and costs are falling, it said. &quot;We see a rapid increase in wind and solar PV (photovoltaic) especially,&quot; Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the IPCC, told a news conference. &quot;It underscores the irreplaceable potential of renewable energies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the lives of people around the world,&quot; said Christiania Figueres, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn, Germany. The United Nations says governments' pledges for cuts in greenhouse gases are insufficient so far to meet an agreed U.N. goal of limiting rises in global temperatures to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees F) above pre-industrial times.Few limits to theoretical potentialOttmar Edenhofer, who chaired the report, said there were few limits to the theoretical potential for renewable energies. &quot;However, the substantial increase of renewables is technically and politically very challenging,&quot; he said. Scenarios for the share of renewables in world supplies by 2050 ranged widely, from just 15 percent to 77 percent. Renewables now account for about 12.9 percent of world energy supplies and are dominated by bioenergy such as firewood in developing nations, and followed by hydropower, wind, geothermal, solar power, and ocean energy. Environmentalists said some language favorable to renewables was toned down in all-night wrangling into today, partly by OPEC nations led by Saudi Arabia. &quot;There are all sorts of 'mights' and 'mays' introduced,&quot; said Jean-Philippe Denruyter, manager of global renewable-energy policy for the WWF conservation group. &quot;It's not a big problem. We are quite positive about the outcome.&quot; Sven Teske of Greenpeace, an IPCC author, said the summary had muted, for instance, clearer statements that some renewable energies were already cost-effective. Still, he added that the underlying findings &quot;will be the standard book for renewables.&quot; The underlying IPCC report, of about 1,000 pages, was written by about 120 experts. The Abu Dhabi talks were to get governments to endorse the summary for policymakers, a step meant to give its conclusions global legitimacy.  An IPCC review of 164 scenarios for the shift to renewable energies showed that they could make cumulative carbon dioxide savings of 220 billion to 560 billion tonnes from 2010 to 2050. That compares with 1.53 trillion tonnes of cumulative fossil and industrial carbon dioxide emissions in a reference scenario for the same years. Story Copyright (c) 2011 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook acquires Israeli mobile app startup Snaptu]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=facebook-acquires-israeli-mobile-app-startup-snaptu</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Snaptu confirmed this morning that it has been acquired by Facebook. The social network reportedly paid as much as $70 million for the Israeli startup, which makes apps for feature phones.The deal shows that Facebook is serious about extending its social network across the entire globe and that most of the world accesses the internet not via smartphones or PCs but through old-fashioned feature phones. To cover the whole market, Facebook needs its app to run on the least expensive phones on the market.The purchase price wasn&amp;'t officially disclosed but the Israeli media came up with the estimated price. Facebook worked with Snaptu earlier this year on a Facebook mobile app for a broad range of feature phones, now numbering 2,500 devices.&amp;''We soon decided that work as part of the Facebook team offered the best opportunity to keep accelerating the pace of our product development,&amp;'' Snaptu said in a blog post today. &amp;''And joining Facebook means we can make an even bigger impact on the world.&amp;''The deal is expected to close within a few weeks. Snaptu said it will work on offering richer and more advanced Facebook apps on virtually every mobile phone.&amp;''Snaptu is a startup run by a highly innovative collection of engineers and entrepreneurs, who we already work closely with to offer a Facebook mobile application for feature phones,&amp;'' Facebook said in a statement today. &amp;''As part of Facebook, Snaptu&amp;'s team and technology will enable us to deliver an even better Facebook mobile experience on feature phones more quickly.&amp;''Snaptu was founded in 2007 with backing from Sequoia Capital and Carmel Ventures. Gartner reported that in the third quarter of 2010, smartphones were 19.3 percent of the market, or 81 million units of a total of 417 million.[photo credit: Tech N' Marketing]Calling all mobile executives: This April 25-26, VentureBeat is hosting its inaugural VentureBeat Mobile Summit,  where wea4a4ll debate the five key business and policy challenges facing  the mobile industry today. Participants will develop concrete,  actionable solutions that will shape the future of the mobile industry.  The invitation-only event, located at the scenic and relaxing Cavallo Point Resort in Sausalito, Calif., is limited to the top 180 mobile executives, investors and policymakers. Request an invitation.Next Story: AT&amp;038'T to acquire T-Mobile for $39B Previous Story: Week in review: 4chan founder says Zuckerberg is &amp;''wrong&amp;''PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: feature phones, social networkCompanies: Facebook, Snaptu          Tags: feature phones, social networkCompanies: Facebook, SnaptuDean 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. 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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