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Cleantech first-quarter 2013 analysis and outlook

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:55:57 +0000

The first quarter of cleantech was a mix of good and bad news. Avis’ purchase of Zipcar and Silver Spring Networks’ long-awaited IPO finally occurring were further signs of thawing capital markets and movement in the acquisition space. However, in both situations valuations were lower than hoped, a sign of how investors view cleantech.

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Why big data will be even bigger in 2013

Jenn Marston — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:08:24 +0000

Knowing what to expect in the big data market is now key for companies of all sizes. In this latest GigaOM Research podcast, analysts George Gilbert and Jo Maitland discuss the future of this market and what to expect over the next 12 months.

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Host: Adam Lesser
Speakers: George Gilbert and Jo Maitland

Future growth of the big data market
Building vertical-specific apps for big data
Data Warehousing-as-a-Service: Can Amazon threaten the big players?
Any promising IPO candidates?
Crazy predictions for the year ahead: Shakeout among NoSQL startups, MarkLogic goes public?, and Oracle faces rough waters

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RoadMap re-run, our talk with Instagram’s Kevin Systrom

iTunes 11, When Things Connect, Sun Volt

What Aspiring New Media Stars Should Know About Agents and Managers

Holiday Gadget Gift Guide

War Tweets, Google TV and Nexus 4

Director Jay Duplass on low-fi movies through high-tech

Election Dissection, Ditching DSL and Dumping the iPad

Sandy’s Social, Infrastructure Impact and Forstall

Windows 8 Surfaces, and disruption eruption

iPad Mini, iMac gets skinny

Boxee Cloud DVR, Apple Rumors and Chromebook

Commutist interview: Joy of X author Steven Strogatz

Commutist podcast: Patent trolls, Costco ban and Passbook’s home run

Commutist, meet Nerdist, and interview with Chris Hardwick

T-Metro, Broadband Caps, Remembering Steve Jobs

Apple’s iO-Mess, Dirty Data Centers and Tesla

News from the Mobilize Conference

Paul Tough: How Children Succeed and what you can learn from them

The iPhone 5 Event

Come on, Kindle, Light My 4G Fire

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The fourth quarter of 2012 in cleantech

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:12:23 +0000

The fourth quarter in cleantech saw attention paid to two prominent and publicly traded companies: EV maker Tesla and newly minted public listing SolarCity. It remains a transitional period for the sector as investment declines and investors look for value investments and give money to those companies able to scale with little additional capital.

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Cleantech and investment in 2013

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:05:16 +0000

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Social third-quarter 2012: analysis and outlook

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:55:54 +0000

Social media technologies continue to permeate marketing and enterprise collaboration, even if investors felt let down in the third quarter by their consumer-facing businesses like Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga. So B2B technology offerings in support of marketing and collaboration will soon steal all the social tech attention. This quarterly wrap-up analyzes these events, and provides a near-term outlook for trends, technologies and companies to watch in the next 18 to 24 months.

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Readers weigh in: future prospects for Twitter

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:14:36 +0000

Twitter is a mainstream communications technology that plays a critical role in news and content discovery. The company has spawned a business ecosystem of third-party developers and services that create apps and data analysis. But as it evolves its business model, Twitter has also generated controversy around its changing developer and user policies. Twitter feels like it is at a crossroads, so GigaOM Pro took a quick pulse of the tech community’s opinions on the company’s future prospects, its likely business model, and its role in the overall technology industry. The results are presented here, with analysis.

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Silicon Valley tech boom is inflating rents… by a lot

Om Malik — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:42:42 +0000

San Francisco red-hot startup activity is not only inflating the commercial real estate market, but it is also having an impact on the residential rental market, data shows. Since January 2011, annual rents are up by $5000 but things are even worse down in the Peninsula. Some are blaming it on the IPO market, but I personally think it is more and more people moving to SF Bay Area, working for tech startups and thus putting pressure on the local real estate market.

From Apartmentlist.com blog

While we’re happy that our tech-driven economy is rebounding, renters are getting hit hard on prices, especially on the Peninsula (which we’re categorizing as Daly City, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Mountain View, San Bruno, San Mateo and Sunnyvale).

Over a 16-month period, asking rents in those cities went up an average of 44%. At the same time, San Francisco rents went up around 19%. Also a very large jump. Last January rent in San Francisco was $900 more expensive than on the Peninsula, on average. Today, the difference is only $650.

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Social media in Q1: commerce and discovery dominated

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:55:19 +0000

Media issues like advertising and discovery along with commerce dominated the activity in social and real-time Web technologies during the first quarter of 2012. Google raised some hackles, Facebook responded to demands from traditional advertisers, and Yahoo got a new chief executive. The quarter also saw Pinterest, the newest social media star, showing signs of staying power; it is starting to be a force in content discovery. This report examines these trends and more, as well as provides a near-term outlook for the next 12 to 18 months.

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Infrastructure Q1: Cloud and big data woo enterprises

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:55:04 +0000

With enterprises now open to hybrid clouds, Amazon Web Services finally relaxed its rigid public-cloud-only stance and launched services to support hybrid-cloud deployments in the first quarter of 2012. On the big data front, the Hadoop players realized very few companies have teams of systems engineers to learn MapReduce. This has meant adding support for SQL and integrating Hadoop with existing data-management tools and systems. In other words, Hadoop has grown up and is now being taken seriously by companies like Oracle and Microsoft. This quarterly report examines these trends as well the exciting M&A and IPO news in this arena. It also includes a near-term outlook for the next 12–18 months.

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Controversy, courtrooms and the cloud in Q1

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:55:54 +0000

The first quarter of 2012 featured several high-profile legal and regulatory battles over privacy, antitrust and copyright that could eventually reshape digital markets, including the pay-TV business and online advertising. It was also marked by shifts in the online video landscape, including a seductive new display from Apple and Hollywood’s first efforts in the cloud. We examine these trends and others in this quarterly report, as well as provide a near-term outlook for the next 12–18 months.

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