After nearly five months of owning the consumer tablet market, Apple’s iPad is about to face its first real competition from optimized tablets running on Android. Samsung will take center stage by introducing their Galaxy Tab slate this week, but others are sure to follow. Read More »
Archive for August 2010
And you thought John Deere was all about tractors. This morning utility Exelon said it will buy up the wind power division of John Deere, called John Deere Renewables, for $860 million. John Deere Renewables has 965 MW of clean power projects under development in various… Read More »
Chartbeat, which offers real-time website analytics, has closed a $3-million Series A round of financing from a group of VCs led by Index Ventures. This is the first external financing the startup has taken after being founded by betaworks, the venture group/incubator run by John Borthwick. Read More »
Roku is looking to make its broadband set-top boxes more attractive to consumers ahead of upcoming Google TV products and a rumored new Apple TV device expected to be announced Wednesday, by lowering its prices and adding 1080p video capability to its top-of-the line HD-XR model. Read More »
Although I work remotely, I recently took a full-time two-month contract — and, in my existing clients’ eyes, became even more remote than usual. I could see the break in contact very quickly undermining the relationships I’d worked so hard to develop. Read More »
TweetPhoto says it has expanded its features beyond Twitter, to the point where it needs a new name. The company today announced it has changed its name to Plixi, and wants to become a photo-sharing platform for multiple social networks, including Twitter and Facebook. Read More »
Cable companies are cautiously making their videos available online and on mobile devices. Now that consumers have a near-infinite number of entertainment choices, online and mobile video included, pay TV providers have to get more strategic about delivering video to devices beyond the television set. Read More »
As employees bring their personal devices to work, corporate information technology departments have an opportunity to embrace the benefits of consumer technology in the form of lightweight and transient enterprise apps aimed at employee smartphones. This will enhance collaboration and usher the next generation workplace. Read More »
Apptio, a Bellevue, Wash.-based enterprise software company, today said it’s raised a $16.5 million Series C round of funding led by Shasta Ventures, which includes participation from current investors Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners and Madrona Venture Group just a year after the last round. Read More »
Proterra, based in Golden, Colo., has just hit a critical milestone in the life of an entrepreneurial green bus maker: the first deployment of its all-electric model for everyday service by a major public transit agency. Read More »
Motive Systems, is today releasing a cloud storage offering, M-Files Cloud Vault, that enables companies to organize and manage company documents and information on cloud servers. The market for this sort of product is massive and there is an opportunity for many vendors to be successful… Read More »
Global Solar on Tuesday unveiled its new flexible solar panel that can be integrated into roofing membranes. The idea is that buildings and roofs can be built with the solar materials weaved right into them, lowering the cost and the time of the solar installation. Read More »
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