Apple is going to offer $0.99 TV show rentals for its revamped Apple TV, Google is betting on integrating a search bar with your cable content and Boxee has alsways had a really slick UI. So which box are you going to buy this fall? Read more »
In order to deliver 2,430 live baseball games, Major League Baseball needed a robust network to ensure that all the news, highlights, statistics and high-definition video being sent out from stadiums could reach its customers. And it turned to Global Crossing to build that network. Read more »
As Tesla’s stock keeps on rising, Ray Lane, the Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist and former Oracle executive who has backed plug-in hybrid startup Fisker Automotive, says he sees an IPO for Fisker down the road. Read more »
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Great companies make it easy for employees to do their jobs, whether they have a cubicle in the corporate headquarters, work out of a remote office or work from their home. By giving everyone remote participation options, you make everyone more productive. Read more »
Like so many of his web peers in recent years, the CTO of Hulu has ditched the dot-com life for greentech pastures. Eric Feng has left the web video firm to join Kleiner Perkins and to work as a technical adviser to former VP Al Gore. 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 »
In northeastern Louisiana, where V-Vehicle (backed by Google Ventures and led by Kleiner Perkins VC Ray Lane) aims to build low-cost gas cars with higher-than-average efficiency, local officials voted on Monday to renew support for the startup in its bid for federal funds. Read more »
Amonix, a twenty-year-old company that has developed of 20-ton concentrating photovoltaic solar system for utility-scale solar projects, just joined the 9-digit funding club. This morning the company said it has raised a $129.40 million financing round, led by the greentech venture capital celebrities at Kleiner Perkins. Read more »
V-Vehicle, the startup with big name investors and plans to build low-cost gas sippers with funding from Uncle Sam, let its factory lease expire last month after losing a bid for federal loans. But now V-Vehicle has renewed its lease on the facility. Read more »
How can buzzy fuel cell startup Bloom Energy move from its current early stage — a handful of customer and still high costs — to lower cost mass market manufacturing? If you’re Bloom Energy backer Kleiner Perkins, you look to hire a commercialization expert. Read more »
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V-Vehicle has undergone a shakeup since the feds rejected its request for $321.1 million in loans. V-Vehicle founder Frank Varasano has left his post as chief executive, and investor Ray Lane has stepped into the CEO role, the Monroe News Star reports. Read more »
We spoke to iFund manager and Kleiner Perkins partner Matt Murphy about the iFund’s close relationship with Apple, its approach to competing mobile platforms including the mobile web, what iPad apps he’s most excited to invest in and what has already been done to death. Read more »
Kleiner Perkins said today that it will double the size of its iFund — capital dedicated specifically to companies developing for the iPhone and iPod touch — as it’s already spent its allocated $100 million in the two years since the fund was first formed. Read more »
That looming March 1 deadline for V-Vehicle to raise $350 million — the amount that the T. Boone Pickens and Kleiner Perkins-backed startup needed in order to release the bulk of an incentive package put together by state and local authorities in Monroe, La., (or else […] Read more »
Here’s more feedback that the Department of Energy’s first entrepreneur-in-residence program, which paired entrepreneurs from three well-known venture capital firms (Kleiner Perkins, Foundation Capital and ARCH Venture Partners) with national labs, just didn’t deliver: Foundation Capital’s DOE EIR participant Michael Bauer is back working as an […] Read more »
At the launch event of fuel cell company Bloom Energy last week General Colin Powell, who is on the board of directors for Bloom Energy and a limited partner for venture firm Kleiner Perkins, talked about his experiences of working with Bloom and his vision for […] Read more »
While nuclear giant Areva declined to disclose how much it plans to pay for solar thermal startup Ausra this week, the deal speaks volumes about greentech exits (or a lack there of) as well as the solar thermal industry. For several of the venture capitalists who […] Read more »
¡Ay, caramba! Youtube has added a ton of Spanish-language content with the launch of its Univision channel yesterday, bringing in programming from the programmer’s three major networks: Univision, TeleFutura and Galavisión. The launch of the channel marks the first time Univision content has been distributed beyond […] Read more »
Harvest Power, which builds, owns and operates facilities to turn yard clippings and other organic waste into renewable energy and composted soil, announced today that it is partnering with Waste Management, a leading waste services company, to expand its organics recycling operations. As part of the agreement, Waste […] Read more »
Venture capitalists are starting the New Year off with a deepening interest in the wind industry. About two weeks after Khosla Ventures and others invested in wind turbine maker Nordic Windpower, another wind startup, FloDesign Wind Turbine, announced yesterday that it closed a $34.5 million second […] Read more »
V-Vehicle, the auto startup backed by the venture capitalists at Kleiner Perkins and energy baron T. Boone Pickens, has begun testing prototypes of the vehicle it aims to build in Louisiana’s Ouachita Parish. V-Vehicle’s director of Louisiana assembly operations, David Hitchcock, tells the local Monroe News […] Read more »
Think North America — a joint venture between Norwegian electric vehicle maker Think Global and U.S. venture firms Rockport Capital Partners and Kleiner Perkins — has just named Elkhart, Indiana as the location for its first U.S. manufacturing facility. According to a release from the Indiana […] Read more »
A weak economy is a solid time to sell a product that can save companies 30-60 percent on their energy bills. Computer energy software maker Verdiem, which passed the 1 million mark back in August for the number of government and business PCs that are running […] Read more »
Though services like Foursquare and Gowalla eat up techie mindshare, they still have very few users; something like 150,000 for Foursquare and 50,000 for Gowalla. However, an iPhone app called MyTown that also features a location-based check-in system game acquired 250,000 users within two weeks. Read more »
According to information gathered from parts suppliers for Apple’s iPhone 3GS, the handset is headed for a record quarter. Apple’s Taiwanese suppliers for the iPhone’s components have reported a 31 percent increase in volume of orders placed for the parts. Read more »
“Excuse me, I have to run to the bank to make a deposit.” How many times have you had to interrupt your day to make sure that checks get into your account quickly? My company accepts credit cards, but many of our customers still prefer to […] Read more »
So you think you’ve come up with the next game-changing greentech idea and now you just need to score some funding to get your new firm off the ground? Well, if you were eying the greentech bigwigs at Kleiner Perkins to back your fledgling startup, maybe […] Read more »
In a long speech on a variety of greentech subjects — ranging from renewable energy technology to prospects for the upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen to the U.S. Senate’s slow pace on the climate bill — former Vice President and current Kleiner Perkins partner Al Gore […] Read more »
Rupert Murdoch’s got a new partner with a Silicon Valley pedigree to help his company News Corp go carbon neutral by 2010: Hara. The media giant plans to announce on Thursday that’s it’s using Hara’s software to track and reduce energy and carbon emissions. While we […] Read more »
When news breaks that a company is in talks to be acquired, pundits are often quick to point to it as a positive sign. But in reality, it all depends on the valuation and the price of the deal. Over the past couple of days the […] Read more »
Top executives from 13 companies including California utility Pacific Gas & Electric, Japanese automaker Nissan, smart grid startup GridPoint, battery maker A123Systems, battery giant Johnson Controls-Saft, and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, are joining forces this morning as the founding members of a new alliance called […] Read more »
A year ago, venture capitalists at the firm Kleiner Perkins let slip a few juicy details about their first cleantech investment: quiet fuel cell maker Bloom Energy. Now in an interesting and rare interview with Alison van Diggelen, who produces Fresh Dialogues, Bloom Energy chief executive […] Read more »
Amyris Biotechnologies, which is developing synthetic organisms to make chemicals and biofuels, is closing in on its third round of funding. The Emeryville, Calif., company announced Thursday it has raised $41.75 million of a targeted Series C round of approximately $60 million. The announcement represents an […] Read more »
It looks like Ausra’s plan to sell components, instead of building large solar-power plants on its own, has started rolling. Ausra on Wednesday announced it has been selected to supply a critical component, a solar steam boiler, for a 100MW concentrated solar thermal power project being […] Read more »
Kleiner Perkins investor, and former President of Oracle, Ray Lane, said that electric vehicle maker startup Fisker is gearing up to make a major announcement about a $39,000 plug-in hybrid vehicle later this week or next week. The venture capitalist, whose firm funded Fisker, let the […] Read more »
Penelope Trunk thinks that most of the career tools out there don’t cut it in today’s world. Every job site or social network requires a resume that follows a traditional format, but many of us can’t make our resumes fit that format. We no longer spend […] Read more »
Stealthy energy storage maker EEStor continues to make headlines, despite the fact that the company has yet to deliver its device that has such revolutionary claims. But the latest news comes via an audio interview that was conducted by an unknown interviewer with EEStor’s CEO Dick […] Read more »
In the days when a two-guys-in-a-garage startup could morph into a massive public offering with relative ease, SharesPost might have had a hard time making its case. The startup, which launched an experimental marketplace last month for buying and selling private equity, aims to step in […] Read more »
The big news in the world of sustainability this week is that Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, will launch a labeling system to disclose the environmental impact of the products it sells and will be asking its more than 100,000 suppliers to start tracking things like […] Read more »
The energy bill passed the House on Friday, but the proposed cap and trade system and new incentives for renewable energy are still a long way from going into law as the Senate needs to pass its own version. As we transition to the next round […] Read more »
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