Amyris Biotechnologies has taken one more step toward the long sought goal of commercial scale next-gen biofuel production. The IPO hopeful’s latest filing with regulators shows it has collected its first revenue from a multimillion dollar federal grant awarded late last year. Read More »
Archive for May 2010
The venture capital industry is going through a revival, according to Brad Feld, one of the founders of the Colorado-based VC firm, Foundry Group. During a 20-minute video chat he talks about his journey from Boston to Boulder, the myths of entrepreneurship and much more. Read More »
Google’s new open source video format WebM will become more popular than H.264 in one to two years, Brightcove’s President and COO David Mendels predicts. One of the first major websites to try out WebM for its web videos could be the New York Times. Read More »
I’m always looking for images to use in blog posts, and am tired of having to open a new tab just to trawl through photos, which is why I was happy to discover Flickr Image Search. It’s a basic Chrome extension that provides on-the-fly Flickr search. Read More »
Managing what is said about them online has become “a defining feature of online life for many internet users, especially the young,” according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Younger users also tend to be less trusting of content-hosting sites. Read More »
It’s not easy being TiVo these days. The company reported first quarter earnings yesterday, which included a widening loss and a continued decline in its subscriber numbers, despite the fact that it released the latest version of its DVR, the TiVo Premiere, during the quarter. Read More »
The iPhone OS is a lot more global than its Google counterpart, Android, according to a new report. Of course, with some 100,000 Android-based phones being activated every day on 59 carriers in 48 countries, that will change soon. Read More »
Apple’s iTunes now accounts for 28 percent of all music sales within the U.S. This four percent gain since Q1 2009 detail that Apple’s digital store still holds the top spot as the number one music retailer within the U.S. Read More »
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today combatted the assumption that Facebook is incentivized to make user data more public because it serves the company’s advertising business. “There’s a big misperception that we’re making these changes for advertising,” he said. “Anyone who knows me knows that that’s crazy.” Read More »
Every so often, I stumble across a tip that so great I wonder how I haven’t come across it before — this post from Steve Rubel contains one such killer tip: Bit.ly lets you shorten a URL right from the address bar of any browser. Read More »
Facebook today announced a revamp of its user privacy controls, after nights-and-weekend work by its top engineers and designers to respond to widespread public criticism. Mark Zuckerberg called the release a “modern privacy system” that reflects what the site has become and incorporates feedback from users. Read More »
President Obama stopped by the factory of thin film solar startup Solyndra Wednesday morning in Fremont, Calif., to give a speech touting how investments from the stimulus package have been creating green jobs, and said he would fight to pass climate change legislation this year. Read More »
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