Amyris has priced shares for its IPO at $16, below its previously anticipated range or $18 to $20. At least 5.3 million of Amyris’ shares will start trading later today under the symbol AMRS. The IPO has raised $84.8 million. Read More »
Archive for September 2010
AOL has acquired video syndication specialist 5min Media to boost the amount of video it serves on its sites, while boosting distribution of its own video assets. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although estimates place the value of the deal at around $50-$65 million. Read More »
There’s a reason why RIM unveiled its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet at a developer event. It’s because the device is the company’s best shot at greatly expanding its developer base well beyond the 300,000 or so developers it now has. Read More »
RIM unveiled the BlackBerry tablet yesterday, and indicated it is aimed at the enterprise professional. Tablets make good e-readers, so RIM was showing off the Kobo e-book reader app on the new PlayBook. Amazon also announced its intention to put the Kindle app on the PlayBook. Read More »
There are plenty of chat tools out there, but using one that is purely meant for internal business communication has its benefits — at least, your team won’t be distracted by friends and family. HipChat is a group chat tool built specifically with companies in mind. Read More »
Advertising impressions on iPhone are flat while those on Android handsets are up 7 percent since last month and have increased a hefty 996 percent this year. But Apple’s iPad witnessed a 76 percent increase in ad requests last month. Here come tablets full of ads! Read More »
For Scandinavian electric car maker Think, the moment of truth for its U.S. ambitions could be a mere months away. When it comes to financing a planned factory in Indiana, Think’s CMO Michael Lock told us that everything rides on federal support. Read More »
PVT Solar, which is developing a way to capture heat from a solar-panel rooftop system for heating water and homes, has raised a series B round of $13.7 million and also brought in a new CEO, Vikas Desai, the company plans to announce Tuesday. Read More »
Bloom Energy has installed the largest single installation to date on the roof of Adobe’s headquarters in San Jose, Calif. The dozen fuel cells will be one of the first to run on biogas (methane from organic waste), making them carbon free. Read More »
A startup being incubated out of I/O Ventures called SocialVision made waves last week with the introduction of an application called YouTubeSocial, which enables users to create social “viewing parties” around a certain video or videos. But YouTubeSocial is only part of the startup’s story. Read More »
RIM confirmed rumors of a tablet by introducing the BlackBerry PlayBook, a powerful 7-inch device that will offer a dual-core 1GHz processor, full HTML 5 browser, Flash 10.1 with video acceleration, 1 GB of RAM, 1080p playback with HDMI output and two HD cameras, all built… Read More »
Sony Ericsson has no current plans to use Nokia’s Symbian platform to power smartphones going forward and is instead turning to Google Android for future handsets. Given how long it’s taking Sony Ericsson to get phones off of Android 1.6, maybe it should stick with Symbian. Read More »
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