A startup called Choose Energy is offering consumers a comparison shopping site for electricity in deregulated markets, and is building tools to help retail energy providers acquire customers. The company raised a series A round from Kleiner and Stephens Capital. Read more »
You say AC, I say DC, and several other ways that energy efficiency is remaking the data center, via GigaOM Pro. Read more »
You can count GigaOM Pro cleantech analyst Adam Lesser in the category that believes that SolarCity pricing at $8 rather than the $13 to $15 the company wanted was a major blessing. A blessing for all of cleantech. Read more »
The latest in cleantech from GigaOM Pro this week: advanced battery technologies, the fate of clean energy post election, and should the U.S. aggressively export natural gas? Read more »
What happened in cleantech on GigaOM Pro?: a hot new report on next-gen battery innovations, a column on why design matters for cleantech, and much more. Read more »
And things are even tougher for developers of advertising-supported apps. Read more »
Both iOS and Android use is growing, but app developers are adopting Android at a faster rate, according to a recent GigaOM Pro survey. See our chart for more details. Read more »
What’s going on in cleantech? Over on GigaOM Pro we have some excellent new research on grid batteries, the share economy and energy efficient data center innovation. Read more »
Apple seems to be increasingly willing to respond to negative publicity surrounding its sustainability practices, points out GigaOM Pro cleantech analyst Adam Lesser. Why? Read more »
The five natural resources that will significantly impact the future development of renewable energy. Read more »
GigaOM Pro Research Director David Card took the stage at paidContent 2012 to discuss one of the key challenges content distributors are facing — discoverability. Read more at paidContent »
In the emerging vision for the smart city of tomorrow, we often hear about next generation smart grids, smarter buildings that manage themselves to conserve resources, and smart transportation systems that will lessen congestion.
In fact, Pike Research’s Eric Woods recent report for GigaOM Pro, “Key Technologies ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
When it comes to electric cars, it’s already slow going, so why make electric car charging more confusing, says GigaOM Pro analyst Adam Lesser, who takes a look at the early emerging market for electric car charging networks. Read more »
There’s a perception in Silicon Valley that smart thermostat startup Nest created the world’s first connected thermostat. While the Nest thermostat is gorgeous and potentially a game-changing, there’s dozens of companies that are making smart thermostats and software, and here’s a dozen of them in photos: Read more »
Last year was a great year for GigaOM Pro, and 2012 promises to be even better. Jo Maitland recently joined our team as a Research Director for Enterprise, and she will help us produce more research in the enterprise IT and cloud computing spaces. Read more »
What you should be reading and thinking about this week, courtesy of Adam Lesser, GigaOM Pro’s Green IT analyst. Read more »
Forget the hardware. It is becoming abundantly apparent that what will matter for smart meters is how well data can be used to manage demand response, outages and balance load while also being secure, says Adam Lesser, GigaOM Pro Green IT analyst. Read more »
Despite the exuberant expectations for the adoption of electric cars, forecasts have been conservative, with global annual sales expected to be around a million in 2015, compared to the global auto market of around 70 million vehicles today, writes Adam Lesser, GigaOM Pro’s Green IT analyst. Read more »
When people think about cleantech, they typically think about solar panels or converting biomass into fuel. But the momentum right now in cleantech is as much about connectivity and how it can drive energy efficiency as it is about advancing sources of renewable energy. Read more »
Kleiner Perkins’s $250 million China fund represents the logical next step in a migration of cleantech investment toward China, points out GigaOM Green IT analyst Adam Lesser. Here’s three reasons cleantech VC dollars are heading east. Read more »
In the drive to produce servers based on lower-power chips that reduce operating costs and conserve energy, the $13 billion Cambridge, England–based ARM is seen as the great hope. Read more »
Will Apple embrace solar in any meaningful way? Seems like even Apple is realizing that it needs to hedge its brand against being labeled anti-environment. Now that Apple is the 800 pound gorilla of tech, managing negative publicity surrounding its sustainability practices will matter more. Read more »
The third quarter’s numbers are out from the Green IT section of GigaOM’s research subscription service GigaOM Pro. Solar is struggling, while IT-based systems like car sharing are soaring. Dig into the details with us. Read more »
GigaOM Pro Green IT analyst Adam Lesser asks should we be measuring the success of a cleantech investment purely based on IPO exits, in his weekly column? Read more »
Our GigaOM Pro Green IT analyst Adam Lesser points out that U.S. solar manufacturers are preparing a complaint against China to be filed with the Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission. Read more »
The relationship between car sharing companies and automotive manufacturers bears scrutiny, says GigaOM Pro analyst Adam Lesser in his weekly column. Read more »
Florida-based Tellago Studios has developed a platform that will allow data center managers to control their data centers from a smartphone, which could be a critical next step in the life of a data center engineer, points out GigaOM Pro Green IT analyst Adam Lesser. Read more »
Cleantech, meet mobile. The intersection between these two industries has grown over the past twelve months as companies increasingly look to use smartphones as a platform to enable their services, according to a new report from our GigaOM Pro Green IT analyst Adam Lesser. Read more »
Now for Today in Green IT, news, notes and musing from our GigaOM Pro Green IT analyst Adam Lesser. Nuclear power is falling in Germany and Japan, as corporations follow suit from country-wide protests and anti-nuclear politics. Read more »
Google has aggressively argued that PUE (the measurement of how efficient a data center is) must be constantly measured to be accurate. But there is a need also to go beyond PUE. For our Today in Green IT, here’s how to go beyond PUE: Read more »
It’s time for Today in Green IT! Another bit of interesting info from Google’s new green site is how aggressively Google argues that PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) needs to be measured as often as possible, points Adam Lesser, our GigaOM Pro Green IT analyst. Read more »
Greentech investing has been getting a series of one-two punches — will it soon be down for the count? According to the weekly update from out GigaOM Pro Green IT analyst Adam Lesser, while the ecosystem is looking darker, it’s also growing up. Read more »
In light of solar startup Solyndra’s announcement this week that the company plans to file for bankruptcy, we decided to turn to our readers to hear about what you think are the most important impacts and lessons learned. We got some very interesting feedback. Read more »
And now for Today in Green IT, a daily blurb from the curator of our research service. Today’s topic: the modular data center continues to pick up steam as a solution to the growth of cloud computing and the need to produce energy-efficient data centers. Read more »
With the stock market gyrating, as many companies shutting down as starting up and big IPOs possibly going on hold, we want to know what you think about startup investment. Answer our brief survey, and you’ll be entered to win a $50 Amazon gift card. Read more »
Introducing a new daily spot from our research service, the Green IT section of GigaOM Pro, and our Green IT curator Adam Lesser. Here’s Today in Green IT: Read more »
Internet companies are in a unique position to consume, promote, educate and get involved with clean power. Not only by directly buying it to run their power-hungry servers, but also through their intimate access to millions of Internet users. Read more »
Google+ is the company’s latest attempt to get access to the kind of data users generate when they post status updates, share photos and post comments. These social “signals” are becoming a crucial part of our online lives, and that is affecting the entire search industry. Read more »
Something I thought about a lot while writing about OpenStack yesterday is how much it democratized access to cloud computing in just a year. But OpenStack is just one example of how information technology, overall, is undergoing a period of arguably unprecedented democratization. Read more »
TV apps will soon be “everywhere,” according to attendees of a recent GigaOM Bunker event examining the future of the TV market. But how that market will develop, and which TV platforms will win out, is yet to be ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
