Boston-Power has raised $60 million in fifth-round financing — cash that the startup hopes will fuel a rapid expansion of its capacity to build energy storage devices for plug-in cars and the electric utilities. Read more »
Providers of what’s called platform-as-a-service, or PaaS, face a problem: How do you make it easy for users to grasp the idea of paying for “pieces and slivers” of a platform — the layers of technology underlying a software application? Read more »
Dell and some of its customers have taken “sort of a journey together,” arriving at a point where today, “it’s hard to draw a hard line around some of our systems and say that’s the server, that’s the data center.” Read more »
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The most successful vendors of software-as-a-service, or SaaS will be those who can offer a model similar to banks, giving customers the option to withdraw data at any time. Read more »
What do banks, soccer fans and smartphones have in common? They’re all part of what’s shaping Akamai Technologies’ business, according to CEO Paul Sagan, who joined Om for a fireside chat today at Structure 2010. Read more »
The big cloud computing opportunity for Rackspace is in providing services for a wave of new applications, according to the company’s president and chief strategy office, Lew Moormon. Read more »
At Structure this afternoon, 11 LaunchPad companies had just four minutes to present its business to a panel of three judges from the venture capital industry and the audience. CloudSwitch won the judges’ vote as well as the audience choice. Read more »
There have already been 33 cloud-computing related deals close so far this year. So for entrepreneurs hoping to win the next venture capital investments in the cloud, partners from Redpoint Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Accel Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners and GGV Capital offered some advice. Read more »
To share or not to share memory, that’s the question that sparked the most heated debate in a Structure panel on next-gen architectures for the cloud. Though the panelists agreed that cranking out more code at higher speeds is a top priority for the web. Read more »
One of the biggest challenges AMD faces as a chip manufacturer, according to Rick Bergman, who heads up the company’s processor and computing platforms initiatives, is that old problem of predicting the future. Read more »
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Creating an Internet that will serve us well into the future demands a new, open approach to data flows and networking, according to Nick McKeown, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. Read more »
With an ownership stake in VMware, a tight alliance with Cisco and consistent placement at the top of IDC’s external disk-based storage revenue list, EMC is widely seen as the 800-pound gorilla of the storage space. So how does EMC see it evolving? Read more »
Tesla Motors, gunning for an IPO next week, has won over members of the Silicon Valley, Capitol Hill and Hollywood elite. But will the company, which has never turned a profit, charge up Wall Street with a blockbuster IPO? Read more »
For British sports maker Lotus, a range-extending engine for plug-in vehicles just got a green light. The automotive consultant arm of Lotus Cars (a Tesla Motors supplier), has joined hands with Fagor Ederlan to develop and eventually sell the engine globally. Read more »
What the Government Accountability Office describes as “palpable excitement” and an unprecedented gush of federal investment won’t be enough to establish intercity high-speed passenger rail service in the U.S. Read more »
NRG Energy just scooped up a portfolio of nine solar development projects in California and Arizona. Through subsidiary NRG Solar, the New Jersey-based power producer has bought the projects for an undisclosed price from US Solar Ventures Holdings. Read more »
When you plug in and juice up your battery, are you buying electricity? No charging infrastructure providers say in comments filed with the California Public Utilities Commission. You’re paying for an electric vehicle service, and regulators need to make that crystal clear. Read more »
Might the battery from your old plug-in hybrid or all-electric car eventually store energy for your home? A group of companies and researchers in California hope to establish some viable models for doing just that. Read more »
Want to know how the Nissan LEAF will look and feel on the road when it launches later this year? The first shots of a pre-production LEAF have been snapped in Arizona, and Nissan is kicking off a week of test drives. Read more »
Mission Motors, a San Francisco-based startup working on electric motorcycles and powertrain technology, has raised more than $3.35 million of a planned $4.68 million equity financing round, according to a filing with financial regulators on Thursday. Read more »
A move to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, led by Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, failed Thursday afternoon. After hours of debate, the Senate rejected the resolution with a final tally of 47-53. Read more »
The Department of Energy this morning announced the tenth award for a clean energy project under the long delayed loan guaranteed program. Oregon-based U.S. Geothermal has won the latest award, on a conditional basis, for $102.2 million. Read more »
The latest twist in the road to comprehensive climate and energy legislation arrived on Wednesday, in the form of Sen. Dick Lugar’s (R-Ind.) proposal for what he calls the “Practical Energy and Climate Plan.” Read more »
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 million in new funding. Read more »
Tigo Energy, a startup that sells software and hardware to make solar photovoltaic systems more efficient, has raised $10 million in new funding and plans to channel it into a rapid ramp-up in production of Tigo’s products. Read more »
Electric Smart cars with Tesla battery packs in their bellies are coming stateside this fall. Smart USA today detailed its plans to launch pilot fleet of 250 electric Smart Fortwo mini-cars in October 2010, ahead of the model’s 2012 commercial launch. Read more »
Bloom Energy may capture the lion’s share of buzz among fuel cell startups, but ClearEdge Power has generated a fair amount of business for its $50,000 stationary fuel cell systems, including a new $40 million distribution deal for the Korean market. Read more »
Ford and General Motors plan to let drivers send Google Maps directions to their in-vehicle communication systems, Sync and OnStar. The automakers announced the services separately today, as Internet rivalries spill over into the landscape of connected and electric cars. Read more »
Your mileage will always vary, regardless of what vehicle you drive. Here’s a cheat sheet comparing 12 upcoming and currently available plug-in models, their batteries, charge times and estimated range, and some hints on what to expect as electric and plug-in hybrid cars hit the road. Read more »
The Senate has up to seven hours on Thursday to debate a resolutionmeant to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Read more »
The EPA has just opened up its Energy Star program to data centers, using an efficiency rating system years in the works that’s based on the Power Usage Effectiveness, or PUE, metric. Read more »
A look at the strategies employed by the venture arms of Intel and Google provide some lessons for where General Motors’ new GM Ventures should go from here. Read more »
Rev your engines, auto startups — there’s a new VC in town. General Motors announced this morning that it has created a new subsidiary to identify, develop and invest in innovative technologies in the transportation sector. Read more »
With the bloom falling evermore off the rose of corn ethanol production, a UK-based startup called Green Biologics Limited aims to swoop in and pick up some of the pieces. Read more »
ABI Research forecasts in a new report that apps for smartphone devices will give vehicle navigation systems a run for their money over the next five years — a trend that could make demand for connectivity a double-edged sword for green cars. Read more »
The venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has thrown its greentech weight behind Enphase Energy, an early mover in the realm of microinverters for solar panels. Enphase announced today it has closed a $63 million round joined by Kleiner and other investors. Read more »
Odds and ends from around the green web that we’re reading this morning. Read more »
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk’s ongoing divorce settlement case has sparked questions and speculation about what the proceedings and Musk’s personal financial situation could mean for Tesla as it gears up for an IPO. Tesla responds in its latest regulatory filing. Read more »
Coulomb Technologies, a startup working on charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, has garnered a $15 million federa; grant to support deployment of 4,600 networked charging stations in nine regions around the country — a $37 million endeavor in all. Read more »
Zipcar officially filed for an up to $75 million IPO on Tuesday. It’s S-1 filing reveals potential challenges from antitrust authorities in the UK and information about how the company handles a flood of data about its vehicles and member services. Read more »
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