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Coskata Negotiating Sweet Deal With US Sugar, Closes Series C

Coskata and sugar producer US Sugar are in formal negotiations to build a 100 million gallon per year, $400 to $450 million ethanol plant that can turn sugar cane material into ethanol. The announcement was spurred by US Sugar and the state of Florida coming to an agreement over the sale of US Sugar’s land for $1.34 billion.

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GreenVolts Wins Grant for Low-Cost Solar: GreenVolts has won a $250,000 grant from the California Energy Commission’s Public Interest Energy Research Program…

GM's New Biofuel Bet: Mascoma

Looks like Coskata will have to share its automotive sugar daddy with another biofuel firm. General Motors announced a new strategic relationship…

One to Watch: Qik Live Video

Kyte.tv, Justin.tv, Zannel, Seesmic and the like had better watch out: A startup we just heard about is doing live video streaming…

Pixelmator Now Available

Pixelmator has been pretty tight-fisted about letting their image-editor-in-progress see the light of day. There have only been 1 or 2 screencasts…

MacUpdate Interview

Anyone who is into Mac shareware applications has heard of MacUpdate, for the uninitiated, it’s basically a giant catalog of every Mac…

Babes in HD

HDTV: Philip Swann: Some high-def networks believe the showing of flesh may result in the showing of profits. Not that there’s anything…

Covad trialing Fixed Wireless

There has been much speculation about Covad’s interest in fixed wireless technologies. The DSL company has been trying to find new ways…

Barista goes Wi-Fi

Exclusive: Some of you followed my adventures in India where I lamented the lack of broadband and of course lack of good…

DSL will save the Bells?

How is that for a provocative statement? Despite all the posturing and noise about fiber to the home, it is becoming increasingly…