One year ago, two key trends dominated the solar industry: economic uncertainty and scarce credit. If solar companies were to survive, they needed to scramble to adapt their strategies to both. Today, the economy is more stable and credit is freer, and so the industry faces […] Read more »
Outright and Expensify, web apps that we’ve covered previously on WWD, are joining forces to make expenses management even simpler. As Jennifer reports over on GigaOM, bookkeeping app Outright today releases a beta version of the site that uses Expensify’s API, meaning that credit card expense […] Read more »
Solar companies have spent the past few weeks reporting their latest quarterly results, and the sector is looking battered. Many big names reported discouraging financials for the last three months of 2008, then followed up with even less cheery forecasts for 2009. But after the stock […] Read more »
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Solar companies are painting a mixed picture of the sector’s health this month, with some companies surprising with strong results for the latest three-month period, and others disappointing. In the latter camp is Evergreen Solar, which on Thursday posted a loss in the December quarter on […] Read more »
Intel solar spinoff SpectraWatt has put its plans to build a factory in Hillsboro, Ore., on hold after being unable to get enough financing, The Oregonian reported this week. CEO Andrew Wilson told the newspaper that SpectraWatt is searching for an existing building that it could […] Read more »
China’s Suntech Power Holdings announced a big milestone today, hitting 1 gigawatt (GW) of photovoltaic cell and module production capacity in Wuxi, nearly doubling the firm’s 2007 output of 540 megawatts. Today’s news comes after a tough year for solar stocks, with shares of Suntech, Yingli […] Read more »
Hard on the heels of a brutal year for solar stocks, the early days of 2009 are so far putting out a good share of negative news: sell recommendations from research analysts, a dire outlook from LDK, and Evergreen Solar shuttering a pilot plant. Investors, though, […] Read more »
Many are glad to have shut the door on 2008. Few are likely to be happier than solar-power companies. Of the six solar stocks valued at more than $500 million (a club that grew much smaller during 2008), none outperformed the S&P 500 index, which fell […] Read more »
Prince, aka The Symbol, aka TAFKAP, has nothing on cleantech companies these days. Last week, Aptera’s three-wheeled Typ-1 became the 2e, and SunEthanol renamed itself Qteros the week before that. Now we have Germany-based solar manufacturer EverQ, which late last month became Sovello AG. The name […] Read more »
Layoffs have become the dominant story as we near the end of 2008. After writing about the cold economic realities for companies that have had to cut staff, we wanted to find out what it was like for the people who are now unemployed. Just how […] Read more »
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J.P. Morgan analyst Christopher Blansett created some buzz in the solar sector Monday with a note urging investors to make a “flight to safety” — noting that companies will have to weather “reduced solar subsidies next year, higher solar system borrowing costs and increasing competition at […] Read more »
Remember those tens of millions of shares that Lehman Brothers held in solar companies as part of convertible bond deals it underwrote? It seems Barclays PLC ended up holding them after it bought Lehman’s broker dealer business following the U.S. investment bank’s bankruptcy. A couple of […] Read more »
Like Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking at the front door, a breakout the night before the big dance and other annoyances, one would think the right approach to Chris Crocker ought to be, “Ignore him and he’ll go away.” Alas, that appears not to work. After declaring dramatically […] Read more »
The turmoil on Wall Street has until now had a muted impact on clean technology, but that’s starting to change. Some solar stocks are reeling from the shock waves of Lehman Brother’s bankruptcy. Evergreen Solar (ESLR), JA Solar (JASO) and SunPower (SPWR) took hard hits early […] Read more »
Solar stocks have been down across the board this week, thanks to reports that Spain is considering cutting solar subsidies. Even a bright earnings report from SunPower couldn’t clear those clouds. So when Evergreen Solar said its second-quarter loss widened over the same period last year, […] Read more »
Silicon supply worries and the slowing macroeconomy may have left solar stocks in volatile territory lately, but big manufacturing deals can still give a solar maker a boost on Wall Street. Yesterday solar panel maker Evergreen Solar (ESLR) said it signed two sales deals — one […] Read more »
You Blackberry owners can rejoice with the release of IM client, Instango. Instango works with GTalk, ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, MSN, QQ, Jabber and Gadu-Gadu for starters. You’ll have to sign up for an account but it looks like Instango does email and RSS in addition to […] Read more »
When I see folks like AT&T Mobility’s CEO say the iPhone “totally and completely mobilizes your data” now that it’s 3G-capable, I know we’re not quite living in the same world. Ralph de la Vega may view 3G as a ubiquitous technology, but spending a few […] Read more »
You’d think by now we’d have see everything when it comes to screen image capture software for OS X. While Apple provides basic functionality out-of-the-box there are a plethora of add-ons that vie for your ⌘-Shift attention. One of the more recent contenders is grabUp, a […] Read more »
How super was Super Tuesday for sites covering the primaries with live video? CNN.com had a banner day, and served 2.7 million video streams and 600,000 live video streams according to Silicon Alley Insider. Hopefully that kind of viewership makes taking down the CNN Pipeline pay […] Read more »
Solar stocks have largely cooled in the month of January, thanks to a chilly combo of a short silicon supply and fears over losing an important investment tax credit. But this week solar stock watchers got a much-needed bout of sun from the earnings of thin-film […] Read more »
Amazon scored another win for themselves and for consumers today with the announcement that Warner tunes will be DRM-free on the Amazon MP3 site. Although I have an iPhone and use iTunes with it, I haven’t succumbed to spending hundreds of dollars in music downloads. I […] Read more »
Online video funders from top VC firms sound off about why they are or aren’t investing in the finicky world of content development. Moderator: Michael Copeland, Fortune. Panelists: Tim Haley, Redpoint Ventures; Mike Hirshland, Polaris Venture Partners; Dennis Miller, Spark Capital; George Zachary, Charles River Ventures. […] Read more »
Does your to-do list still consist of a bunch of post-it notes strewn around your desk? Even if you’ve already moved to one of the many good solutions for electronically managing your tasks, you may want to look into the new overhaul of Mojonote. The new […] Read more »
Well this is interesting. I pre-ordered my copy of Leopard the first day it was available to do so. Apple guaranteed shipment on October 26 (today). The package was shipped via FedEx Priority Overnight which has a guaranteed delivery time of 10:30AM (unless you live in […] Read more »
We’re all still waiting for a usable fuel cell solution, but maybe we’re a step closer. PolyFuel just announced that their latest fuel stack can deliver up to 500 Watts per liter. Now, we don’t want to carry a liter of methanol with us, so PolyFuel […] Read more »
After spending $680 million to scoop-up Right Media, Yahoo today announced a deal with Comcast to sell display and video advertising on Comcast’s web sites, which get a total of 2.5 billion page views a month. The deal also covers planned Fancast website. Comcast has been […] Read more »
I hate transparency. Only recently, though. I used to love it. And Mac OS X is littered with it. It’s everywhere – in the Dock, in Terminal, in Dashboard, etc. At one point, you could see about 5 layers of transparency at once on my screen, […] Read more »
Level 3 is cutting 12% of it workforce, a move it expects to save the company $60-to-$70 million a year. Why the cuts? Despite the promise of VoIP, CEO Jim Crowe says that the end demand from the customers of its wholesale customers is taking a […] Read more »
New Mexico’s San Ildefonso Pueblo will receive a $472,906 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Broadband Community Connect program. Slowly, broadband is coming to rural America. Read more »
SanDisk recently announced two new media card readers in the MobileMate line. The MobileMate SD+ 5-in-1 reader supports SD™, MiniSD™, MultiMediaCard™, RS-MMC™ and TransFlash™ while the 4-in-1 MobileMate MS+ reader has one slot for Memory Stick™, Memory Stick PRO™, Memory Stick Duo™ and Memory Stick PRO […] Read more »
Outsourcing has become such a hot button topic, that sometimes we often overlook the upside. While not a supporter of the trend, I did find one example where outsourcing/offshoring did come in handy. And that example is the most beloved toy of the 21st century, the […] Read more »
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