Global agriculture and food gorilla Cargill made $2.6 billion in profit in 2010 — the century-old company doesn’t need biofuels for its bottom line. However, Cargill is one of the larger producers of ethanol and biodiesel in the U.S. and has been investing into next-gen biofuel… Read More »
Archive for August 2010
MasterCard today announced it has agreed to acquire DataCash, a European payment service provider, for $520 million in a transaction expected to close by this October. The deal is expected to boost MasterCard’s services in Europe, but more importantly, will bring additional mobile and e-commerce products. Read More »
After showing off its Tegra line of mobile processors for two years, Nvidia may finally have a big product win as LG Electronics will use a Tegra applications processor in a number of smartphones this year. Is this the first of many Nvidia-powered products to come? Read More »
Vevo released its first mobile app yesterday, making all of its music videos available on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. The release makes music videos from major labels available for the first time on the iPhone, where users previously didn’t have access to them. Read More »
Until recently, web designers didn’t have much control over the fonts we could use. Now, however, there are some very promising options for embedding fonts into web sites. I have been trying a few of them, and so far, they all work well. Read More »
Microchip giant Intel is buying security-software maker McAfee Corp. for $7.7 billion, in what looks like a major bet by the company on the need for enhanced security at the hardware layer, as corporate computing becomes increasingly mobile and continues to move into the cloud. Read More »
Over the past two years, a number of key developments have transformed the video communications market from ho-hum to white hot. As a result, we are presenting our first 2010 webinar, The Video Communication Explosion, to discuss the growing interest in video communications. Read More »
For the latest episode of our Green Overdrive video show we checked out Jeff McCabe’s awe-inspiring electric porsche. He stripped out 1,700 lbs from the car — from the gear box to the stock lights — before adding in the lithium ion batteries. Read More »
CloudCrowd, a labor-as-a-service provider, has announced the company has raised $5.1 million in a Series B funding round, led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). The company says that the new funding will enable it to expand its services and the features of its on-demand labor platform. Read More »
General Motors’ long-awaited S-1 filing spotlights work on the Chevy Volt, OnStar communication system and Google partnership as evidence of GM’s commitment to next-generation technologies. Here’s 12 things to know from the S-1 related to greener vehicles and Car 2.0:. Read More »
The folks at ifixit have a strange fetish for taking gadgets apart, and they’ve bared the Dell Streak to show us what is inside the little slate. They found the Streak easy to take apart, which should make it easy to service should the need arise. Read More »
Facebook tonight presented its long-awaited Facebook Places product to a large gathering of press at the company’s Palo Alto, Calif. office. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted the company had been working on the product for “a little bit more than a few months.” Read More »
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