Executives from startup ETV Motors tell us, in an exclusive interview, how they're shifting gears and divesting from the turbine business to focus on high-voltage, energy-dense battery cells for aviation, electric bikes and eventually plug-in cars.…
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EnerG2 Kicks Off Fed-Backed Factory: First Ultracaps, Then the World
EnerG2, a company working on synthetic carbon materials for energy storage devices, hit pay dirt last summer with the award of a stimulus grant under a DOE program. Today, in Albany, Ore., the startup at last kicked off construction of the factory made possible by that grant.…
Read MoreLogitech CEO: Why We Embrace Google TV
Logitech's CEO Jerry Quindlen doesn't think that consumers are sick of buying new boxes for the living room. In fact, he believes that the Google TV-powered set-top box his company is introducing this fall will lead to consumers buying even more hardware.…
Read MoreDavid Gelbaum Opens the Kimono, A Bit
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.…
Read MoreDuron: How to Sell Plug-&-Play Solar to Rural India
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…
Read MoreDavid Gelbaum Cuts Donations — Bye-Bye, Greentech Plays?
Former hedge-funder-turned-philanthropist — and greentech investor — David Gelbaum won’t be donating his usual $20 million to the American Civil Liberties Union…
Read MoreThe Party Line — Phone Buzz of the Day
Here are some of today’s phone conversations I enjoyed reading or viewing on the web, along with some brief thoughts: T-Mobile service…
Read MoreWebNotes For Marketing & PR Pros: WebNotes PR
Online annotation and research service WebNotes has been a useful tool in my arsenal since I reviewed it last year. Since that…
Read MoreAptera's Electric Three-Wheeler Fuels One Big Debate & Lobbying Effort
Electric car maker Aptera Motors has deep-pocketed friends — it’s raised more than $24 million from investors including Google.org, Idealab, The Beall…
Read MoreeSolar and Wildlands Conservancy Have Something Else in Common: An Investor
Pour enough cash into greentech startups and environmental efforts, and sooner or later a couple of your investments might cross paths —…
Read MoreLiveFuels: A More Gruesome Way to Make Algae Fuel
“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…
Read MoreQuercus Ups Stake in Energy Management Startup Advanced Telemetry
David Gelbaum’s Quercus Trust is at it again. The quiet venture capital firm, along with frequent co-investor 21Ventures, has just led a…
Read MoreDIY Solar: GreenRay Raises First VC Funds
There’s been a wealth of companies trying to do for the solar industry what Apple (s APPL) has done for consumer electronics:…
Read MoreUltracapacitor Maker Graphene Energy Eyes New Funding, Tech Milestone
Less than a year has passed since Quercus Trust and 21Ventures threw down $500,000 in seed money for a small Austin, Texas,…
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Although I normally follow Ian Dixon’s excellent Digital Lifestyle blog, I missed a great post recently. Lucky for me that one of…
Read MoreiPod Touch Helps Mobile Internet Grow & Grow & …
On the day I give up on my iPhone and trade it in for the iPod Touch, AdMob, a mobile advertising startup…
Read MoreQuercus Trust's Latest Energy Storage Play: Graphene Energy
Graphene Energy, an Austin-based developer of ultracapacitor technology, has raised $500,000 in seed investment from Quercus Trust and 21Ventures. The investment represents…
Read MoreLightwave Power Gets $13M from Quercus Trust, 21 Ventures
Solar startup Lightwave Power said today it has closed a Series A round of just over $13 million, with Quercus Trust leading…
Read More5 River Power Players to Watch
A raft of startups has set out to harness energy from waves and tides, many of them in the turbulent waters of…
Read MoreWhy We Need Fat Pipes: The Top 5 Bandwidth-Hungry Apps
Unless you’re actively seeding torrent files or dream of one day having HD content streamed from the web to your TV, the…
Read MoreGoogle Translation Center: The World's Largest Translation Memory
Disclosure: I am the founder of Der Mundo, a multilingual blogging service and translation community that combines human and machine translation (provided…
Read MoreHydro Green Energy To Tap Mississippi in September, Seeks $70M
The Big Muddy could soon be a bit greener with some hydrokinetic turbines from Hyrdo Green Energy. The Houston, Tex.-based startup tells…
Read MoreBlueFire Gets Approval for Waste-to-Ethanol Plant
The dream of taking the contents of our trash cans and putting them into our fuel tanks has moved one step closer…
Read MoreTransfer Applications from iPhone to iTunes
I was having a lot of trouble getting my iPhone applications to sync with iTunes. I tried doing backups and full syncs…
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