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Panasonic EVP Bob Perry: Consumers Desire Choice
Panasonic EVP Bob Perry made it clear at this week’s TV of Tomorrow Show that there’s not much love lost in America for cable TV. He joked that even Wall Street bankers might be more popular than cable...
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"Green" Not Enough to Win Most Drivers Over to Green Cars: Report
Hybrid and electric vehicles can only ride so far on the appeal of their fuel economy gains and environmental credentials. For a majority of car buyers, factors such as style, performance and services...
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Tighter MPG, Emission Rules Go on the Books for 2012
It’s been a long time coming. The Obama administration has just finalized the country’s first ever national regulation to curb greenhouse gas emissions and raise the bar on efficiency requirements for...
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Vid-Biz: Google TV, Clearleap, Project Canvas
Google TV: What Does It Mean for Advertisers?; Google opened up an entirely new store of inventory for advertisers with Google TV, which will launch this fall on TVs, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players....
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Proterra Nabs $20M to Build Green Bus Plant, Sway Policy
Cranking out electric buses, developing new transit tech and swaying policies in favor of “clean commuting.” Those are the main initiatives that startup Proterra says it plans to undertake with $20...
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Create Freshbooks Invoices in Salesforce
Online invoicing service FreshBooks today announced a new integration with Salesforce, enabling Salesforce users to automatically bill through FreshBooks without leaving the Saleforce interface. This...
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Hybrid Espionage! GM Takes Couple to Court Over Tech Secrets
Hybrid technology is really getting its day in court. A former General Motors worker and her husband have been accused of stealing (and trying to sell to a Chinese competitor) $40 million in trade...
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Molycorp IPO Raises $394M for Greentech Metals
Rare earth element mine in Mountain Pass, Calif. Image courtesy of USGS. Molycorp, a company that controls one of the largest deposits of rare earth elements (a group of metals used in many green...
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Hybrid drives could usher in Macs with more, cheaper storage
Seagate's Momentus XT hybrid drive is already on the market. A new Apple patent published Thursday by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (via Patently Apple) reveals plans for a new type of hybrid...
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Metadata-centric enterprise content management firm M-Files scores €6M in...
The Finnish enterprise content management platform M-Files, which places an unusual amount on emphasis on metadata, has closed a €6 million ($7.85 million) Series A round led by DFJ Esprit and also...
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The hybrid might be Microsoft’s niche, but it’s still not the future
During the Build 2013 conference keynote, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer didn’t pull any punches on “traditional” tablets: How many of us have gone to a meeting with somebody who brought a tablet and then...
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Green IT’s Q4 Winners: Wind Power, Solar Power, Smart Energy
In a year that kept industry watchers on edge until the very end, greentech ended up marking its best year ever. But the good news came unevenly across sectors and classes of investment, and for some...
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Opportunities in next-generation battery technologies
Without electricity, today’s connected and mobile lifestyle for individuals and communities would be radically different. Countless consumer electronics, the internet, electrified transportation, and...
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Asus Transformer Duet running Windows and Android reportedly killed (by...
I hope you liked my video preview of the Asus Transformer Duet recorded at January’s Consumer Electronics Show, because you won’t be seeing the actual laptop for sale. Reportedly bowing to pressure...
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Vid-Biz: Google TV, Clearleap, Project Canvas
Google TV: What Does It Mean for Advertisers?; Google opened up an entirely new store of inventory for advertisers with Google TV, which will launch this fall on TVs, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players....
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Adura Systems To Tackle Chinese Hybrid Buses, Then the World
If you’re planning to roll out a hybrid or electric fleet vehicle technology in China, it’s nice to have the government on board. That’s what powertrain developer Adura Systems (not to be confused with...
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EPA Ethanol Rule on the Way: The U.S. EPA is slated to release a draft of the updated Renewable Fuels Standard this week that will set the course for how emissions from biofuels production and use are...
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Daily Sprout
Uncle Sam, Hybrid Car Salesman: Soon the Obama administration and whoever is running GM and Chrysler will have to confront the challenge of how to sell the cars they want America to buy, given that...
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A Lesson for Electric Car Makers in Hydrogen Vehicles' Loss
For plug-in car and battery makers, there’s a lesson in the Obama administration’s recent decision to pull funding for research of hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles: Don’t rely too heavily on the dole...
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GE Gets in Gear With a Greener Train
Updated with comments from GE: This month General Electric is powering through proposals for cleaner technologies for heavy-haul locomotives like, well, a freight train. This morning the company is...
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