Pacific Ethanol, the corn ethanol producer whose future once seemed so bright it attracted a big investment from Bill Gates, continued its downward spiral today, a long and unprofitable journey that has now taken the company into bankruptcy courts. And things could get worse before they […] Read more »
Lost Remote, the prolific future-of-television group blog which originated the space that NewTeeVee lives in, has effectively shut down, with founder Cory Bergman turning the site into a personal Tumblr. Lost Remote’s archives appear to have all been taken offline, and the new layout has no […] Read more »
The ethanol industry just can’t catch a break. We started tracking plant closures more than a year ago, when record-high corn and soy prices and an ethanol glut had squeezed ethanol’s profit margin to a slim 25 cents per gallon, down from $2.30 a gallon in […] Read more »
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Just because you’re among the world’s wealthiest doesn’t mean you’re good at investing in clean technologies. The London Times has released a “Green Rich List,” which looks at the world’s top wealthiest people that have some sort of investment in clean technology — from alternative vehicles […] Read more »
Our ethanol deathwatch map is getting pretty crowded. Sacramento, Calif.’s Pacific Ethanol said today it has temporarily suspended operations at two of its 60-million-gallon-per-year plants in Burley, Idaho, and Stockton, Calif., just a few weeks after the company suspended another facility in California, a 40-million gallon […] Read more »
The FedEx guy (Ralph) showed up this afternoon with a big honking box from Apple. I was expecting the Apple 24-inch LED Cinema Display so it wasn’t a surprise other than the size of the box. It was darn heavy too and I had to wrestle […] Read more »
Throughout 2009 we’ll continue to update our ethanol deathwatch map. After all, let’s face it, this year in terms of capital drying up, is going to be a doozy. This morning, Pacific Ethanol put out an announcement that it will temporarily suspend a 40-million-gallon-per-year ethanol plant […] Read more »
I’m miffed that the Blitz just hit Verizon Wireless today. My son Tyler lost his feature phone about a week ago and the replacement arrived late last week. In fact, we’ll be activating it tomorrow when he comes over. I think if he had seen the […] Read more »
Bill Gates is making good on his plans, announced last November, to sell off his 20.6 percent stake in Pacific Ethanol. Cascade Investment, the private investment and holding company controlled by Gates, has been whittling down the stake trade by trade, according to recent filings with […] Read more »
Woe to the ethanol makers out there, because higher corn prices this summer will mean even more shrinking profits for ethanol producers says a report from Texas A&M University. There’s also the potential for more variability in the price of corn this summer, because supply is […] Read more »
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For a few days there, things were starting to look up for Pacific Ethanol (PEIX). Corn costs are surging. Demand is slack. And biofuels are being blamed for everything from toxic sludge to movie-ticket inflation. Pacific Ethanol, which recently suspended plans to build a new California […] Read more »
A few days ago, Cemaphore opened its new MailShadowG technology to several thousand beta testers, enabling users of Microsoft Exchange-based servers to transition to Google Apps. With many web workers still reliant on Microsoft clients, MailShadow helps to cut the cord by enabling messages, contacts and […] Read more »
If you must travel for business, it’s nice to know what it costs (and your accountant will be asking you what you spent at the end of the year). This is where new service FuelFrog comes in: keep it posted on the amount of gas you […] Read more »
I love my iPod Touch, I know I must be on record somewhere saying that I picked up an iPod Touch because it’s an iPhone without the phone part. That wasn’t entirely true although Apple did put the "real Internet" on the Touch just like the […] Read more »
http://www.podtech.net/player/podtech-player.swf?bc=36b68d1d0cd2490287a62e706a945fc1 One of my personal CES 2008 highlights was working with Warner Crocker in front of a PodTech camera. We both got the opportunity to share our thoughts around Intel and the MIDs that are upcoming. We’re just a few of the many particpants in this […] Read more »
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Pacific Ethanol’s stock found its footing Tuesday after tumbling on the disclosure that an investment fund controlled by Bill Gates plans to sell off its 20 percent stake in the ethanol maker. Shares in the Sacramento, Calif.,-based alternative fuel company (PEIX) rebounded 6.6 percent Tuesday to […] Read more »
Wyclef Jean on your phone, and mobile Weather Channel, and 3G rich advertising insertions, oh my! The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) kicks off its annual wireless IT and entertainment conference here in San Francisco today. Here’s a roundup of mobile video announcements from day […] Read more »
In advance of the Writers Guild of America strike authorization vote that passed Friday, I dropped by the office of WGA member Ezra Sacks, a veteran screenwriter on such films as FM and Wildcats who currently teaches screenwriting to students at New York University. Admitting that, […] Read more »
Only a small number of people were invited to “The Beat Goes On” keynote but Apple has quickly made the entire keynote available for streaming here. The full video is about 1 hour and 30 minutes long and covers everything from the intro of Steve Jobs […] Read more »
My 2005 Honda has a built-in navigational system. That thing has saved my you-know-what more times than I can count. It’s the first car I’ve ever owned with a GPS, and I know I’ll never own another vehicle without it. There is no end to the […] Read more »
Dabble, the video search startup that tries to rely on the intelligence of people rather than machines, is trucking along. We had the chance to catch up with founder Mary Hodder at SXSW this week, and got an update on her company’s status. First up, Hodder […] Read more »
The New York Times writes about the tremendous success of the iPod, and the burgeoning accessory market. Makes for a little bit of interesting reading. The 32 million iPods sold last year equates to 1 every second. That’s ridiculous isn’t it? And the accessory market is […] Read more »
Deloitte has conducted a survey of 131 businesses from the Global 2000 companies and got their views on VoIP. The key findings show that by 2006, over two-thirds of all Global 2,000 companies will have started deployment of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to the desktop. […] Read more »
Business 2.0: Peer-to-peer technology, which file-sharing networks such as Kazaa and Morpheus use to connect computers over the Internet, has proved to be a disruptive force in many industries. We all know how the music business has been rattled by it. The movie moguls are spooked. […] Read more »
Crain’s New York Business is reporting that EarthLink will soon start selling its service over Con Ed’s power lines in Manhattan in the next several months, following an FCC vote last week to set new ground rules for commercial deployment of the service. The company is […] Read more »
Buried in its S-1 filing, Atheros admits that it has so much competition, that you should pause… we compete with large semiconductor manufacturers and designers and start-up semiconductor design companies as well as large, established suppliers. Our primary competitors include Agere Systems, Inc., Broadcom Corporation, ….. […] Read more »
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