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David Gelbaum, the famously private greentech investor, has done one of his only high-profile in-person interviews published in this weekend’s Sunday New York Times. The article offers a peek into what Gelbaum’s peers and portfolio companies think, but stays away from his recent investing hurdles.
A startup based in Bangalore, India, is selling an off-the-shelf device for less than the cost of a one-night stay in an…
Former hedge-funder-turned-philanthropist — and greentech investor — David Gelbaum won’t be donating his usual $20 million to the American Civil Liberties Union…
Here are some of today’s phone conversations I enjoyed reading or viewing on the web, along with some brief thoughts: T-Mobile service…
Online annotation and research service WebNotes has been a useful tool in my arsenal since I reviewed it last year. Since that…
“We cook ’em and squeeze ’em.” That’s how LiveFuels CEO Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones describes her San Carlos, Calif.-based company’s process for turning algae-fed…
There’s been a wealth of companies trying to do for the solar industry what Apple (s APPL) has done for consumer electronics:…
Less than a year has passed since Quercus Trust and 21Ventures threw down $500,000 in seed money for a small Austin, Texas,…
Graphene Energy, an Austin-based developer of ultracapacitor technology, has raised $500,000 in seed investment from Quercus Trust and 21Ventures. The investment represents…
Solar startup Lightwave Power said today it has closed a Series A round of just over $13 million, with Quercus Trust leading…
A raft of startups has set out to harness energy from waves and tides, many of them in the turbulent waters of…
Unless you’re actively seeding torrent files or dream of one day having HD content streamed from the web to your TV, the…
Disclosure: I am the founder of Der Mundo, a multilingual blogging service and translation community that combines human and machine translation (provided…
The Big Muddy could soon be a bit greener with some hydrokinetic turbines from Hyrdo Green Energy. The Houston, Tex.-based startup tells…
Video compression company On2 said today that CEO Bill Joll was stepping down, effective immediately. In addition to the chief executive role,…
Our favorite stealthy private equity investor, David Gelbaum’s Quercus Trust, is involved in two investments in battery/energy storage startups, re-upping on one…
I recently reviewed the drag-and-drop Web-based site building tool Webon and marveled at its ease of use and add-on features. I’m equally…
Heeeeeere’s Jonny! James and I are listening to the Asus news and the talk is WiMAX, WiMAX, WiMAX. Asus sees the mobile…
Thanks to a Technorati RSS feed, I caught this post from Fanatical (Fanatic-Al) that shows off some cutting-edge mobile tech….from 1994! Pictured…
Like a man in love, I just cannot get enough of Bit Torrent. So I have been finding all these great articles…
CED Magazine: The cable industry and a troupe of partners have been invited to the VoIP (Voice-over-Internet Protocol) dance. Level 3, MCI,…
