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green-turismo-to-save-the-earth-and-save-gas-turn-cars-into-video-gamesMy friend has a Tesla Roadster. For those who are unfamiliar with Tesla Motors, the Roadster is the Ferrari of the electric-vehicle world, a high-performance two-seater with more sex appeal than Mae West. How ironic, then, that my friend pines for her old Honda Insight, a dinky little hybrid that has been a commercial failure but remains a cult favorite among the green car set. Why would any sane, hedonistic California resident wish their Ferrari were a Chevy Chevette?

Because the Insight had a wonderful feature that told her how efficiently she was driving. That feature was a light on her dash that glowed green when she was driving smoothly, braking gradually, and accelerating at a moderate piece. It glowed red when she drove like a bat out of hell, braked hard, and turned sharply. While driving her clunky little Insight, her focus was on how to make that light stay green.

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]]>autoautomobilecarcarboncarbon emissionscarbon footprintCarbonEmissionsCarbonFootprintcarsdrivingenvironmentalfuelfuel economyFuelEconomygasgas pricesGasPricesgeneral motorsGeneralMotorsgmgreengreen livingGreenLivinghondaHonda AccordHonda InsightHondaAccordHondaInsightoiloil pricesOilPricespriusTeslatoyotavehicleAlex SalkeverFri, 20 Nov 2009 15:40:00 ESTIs construction headed for a rebound? Autodesk numbers give a good cluehttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/20/is-construction-headed-for-a-rebound-autodesk-numbers-give-a-go/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/20/is-construction-headed-for-a-rebound-autodesk-numbers-give-a-go/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/20/is-construction-headed-for-a-rebound-autodesk-numbers-give-a-go/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Several years ago, when I was doing research for hedge funds, I spent a month talking to Autodesk (ADSK) resellers. Autodesk's AutoCAD software suite is the standard tool used by designers and architects in the construction trade, and it dominates its market much like Adobe's Creative Suite dominates the print, graphic and interactive design fields. Its resellers are the hundreds of consulting organizations and systems integrators that sell Autodesk licenses to customers in the construction business. Like many big software companies, Autodesk relies on a huge reseller channel for the majority of its sales volume.

What my favorite resellers all told me was that they like to play construction-related stocks based on what they see happening at Autodesk, which serves all segments of the construction trade including building, civil engineering, office building design, and factory design.

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]]>ADSKAutodeskconstructionHomeBuildersrecessionstimulusAlex SalkeverFri, 20 Nov 2009 12:40:00 ESTGreentech VC Nancy Floyd: U.S. cleantech firms must go global to thrivehttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/20/greentech-vc-nancy-floyd-says-u-s-cleantech-firms-must-think-gl/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/20/greentech-vc-nancy-floyd-says-u-s-cleantech-firms-must-think-gl/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/20/greentech-vc-nancy-floyd-says-u-s-cleantech-firms-must-think-gl/#commentsFiled under: ,

Nancy Floyd was early to the greentech investing game. A prominent venture capitalist, she founded and remains the managing director of Nth Power, an early-stage venture capital fund based in San Francisco. Nth Power, a $180 million fund, has seen a number of successful exits, including companies specialized in biofuels and "smart" meters.

More than a quarter century ago, Floyd founded NFC Energy, one of the country's first wind development companies. She has also been active in non-profit energy projects, such as home audits, and sat on the Vermont Public Uitlities Commision. These days, she makes bets on the future of greentech. I sat down to talk with her in San Francisco. Here's an edited transcript of our conversation:

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]]>Energygreeninvestmentphotovoltaicrenewablerenewable energyRenewableEnergysolarsolar energysolar powersolar-poweredSolarEnergySolarPowerstimulusventure capitalVentureCapitalAlex SalkeverFri, 20 Nov 2009 09:59:00 ESTChrome doom: Google's Web-based OS could kill whole industrieshttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/19/chrome-doom-googles-web-based-os-could-kill-whole-industries/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/19/chrome-doom-googles-web-based-os-could-kill-whole-industries/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/19/chrome-doom-googles-web-based-os-could-kill-whole-industries/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

google-chrome-os-could-kill-whole-industriesGoogle (GOOG) likes to blow up entire industries. Two weeks ago, the search giant dropped a bomb on the GPS industry with the release of its free and open-source voice-activated navigation app -- sorry, Garmin (GRMN) and TomTom. Google is also in the process of blowing up the productivity applications business with its Google Apps offering, a suite of online email, word processing and other tools that costs a fraction of the price of Windows Office and other Microsoft (MSFT) software.

Today, Google's new Chrome browser-based OS came into clearer focus, and from the looks of it, Google may be en route to blowing up a handful of other businesses.

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]]>AAPLAppleChromeChromeOsGOOGGoogleMicrosoftMSFTsoftwareAlex SalkeverThu, 19 Nov 2009 16:30:00 ESTCalifornia bans power-hog TVs. Will the rest of the country follow?http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/19/california-bans-power-hog-tvs-will-the-rest-of-the-country-foll/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/19/california-bans-power-hog-tvs-will-the-rest-of-the-country-foll/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/19/california-bans-power-hog-tvs-will-the-rest-of-the-country-foll/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Yet again the Golden State has set a de facto national environmental policy. It came this time when officials moved on Nov. 18 to ban sales of all big-screen TVs in California after 2010 if the sets don't meet state energy efficiency requirements. The ban has been brewing for several months now as the California Energy Commission (CEC) has debated a mandate that would require a 33% improvement in energy efficiency for all TVs sold starting Jan. 1, 2011, and a 50% improvement for sets sold starting Jan. 1, 2013.

These mandates would force off the market all current-generation plasma TVs with screens over 40 inches. LCD (liquid crystal display) sets tend to be more efficient, but many of the current models also wouldn't meet the new requirements. In short: Hasta la vista, Señor Plasma!

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]]>bancaliforniacoalconservationelectricityenvironmentenvironmentalgreentelevisiontvAlex SalkeverThu, 19 Nov 2009 09:30:00 ESTNote to Goldman: Small-biz education is good. Showing them the money is betterhttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/18/note-to-goldman-small-biz-education-is-good-showing-them-the-m/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/18/note-to-goldman-small-biz-education-is-good-showing-them-the-m/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/18/note-to-goldman-small-biz-education-is-good-showing-them-the-m/#commentsFiled under: ,

Dear Lloyd:

I read about your kind offer to spend $500 million to help 10,0000 U.S. small businesses by underwriting continuing education courses for them at local colleges and giving money to community-lending institutions for loans. I'm certain this offer is sincere. However, as someone who has tried launch a small business and who has many small-business owners as friends, I can assure you that most of them don't need any community college course to learn how to make money.

No, their needs are far more mundane. They need cheaper health insurance for their employees. They need lower taxes on their revenues. They need more earnings to pay their employees a fair living. They need funds to buy supplies because their credit lines have been eliminated and their vendors are demanding COD payments. In short, they need more money, not more schooling.

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]]>bailoutBank of AmericaBankOfAmericabankscredit crisiscredit crunchCreditCrisisCreditCrunchGeithnerGoldman SachsGoldmanSachsGSLloyd BlankfeinLloydBlankfeinsmall businessSmall Business Administrationsmall business loansmall business ownersSmallBusinessSmallBusinessAdministrationSmallBusinessLoanSmallBusinessOwnersAlex SalkeverWed, 18 Nov 2009 12:00:00 ESTMicrosoft brings WordPress onto its cloud: Automattic blogs will go Azurehttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/18/microsoft-wordpress-cloud-automattic-blogs-azure/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/18/microsoft-wordpress-cloud-automattic-blogs-azure/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/18/microsoft-wordpress-cloud-automattic-blogs-azure/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

microsoft-wordpress-cloud-automattic-blogs-azureAt the Microsoft (MSFT) Professional Developers Conference on Tuesday, company CTO Ray Ozzie (pictured) took the stage to chat about his company's latest effort in cloud computing. Called WindowsAzure, this new Microsoft offering will allow companies to write code on a cloud-based operating system that runs in Microsoft data centers. After a year of testing, Azure is slated to go live in January, with paying customers coming aboard in February.

Microsoft is playing catchup in the cloud realm. Amazon (AMZN) and Google (GOOG) have both been running live cloud-computing offerings for over a year and have gained considerable traction with Internet companies and IT organizations seeking to avoid the limitations of physical servers, hardware maintenance and static bandwidth contracts. The big surprise that Ozzie unveiled, however, wasn't technological. It was actually a customer: Automattic, the hot software and blog hosting company that is behind the highly popular WordPress platform.

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]]>amazonamazon.comautomatticAzureblogscloud computingCloudComputingec2googleMicrosoftMSFTRay OzzieRayOzzievirtualizationwindows azureWindowsAzurewordpressAlex SalkeverWed, 18 Nov 2009 09:00:00 ESTThe real prize in Google's AdMob buy: iPhone user datahttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/17/the-real-prize-in-googles-admob-buy-iphone-user-data/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/17/the-real-prize-in-googles-admob-buy-iphone-user-data/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/17/the-real-prize-in-googles-admob-buy-iphone-user-data/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Boy, this mobile advertising scene is starting to get complicated. So Apple (AAPL) spoke to mobile online advertising company AdMob before the company's CEO Omar Hamoui inked its recent $750 million deal with Google (GOOG), Bloomberg and others have reported. This was unusual as Apple has typically steered well clear of advertising or of anything that required a serious sales force beyond its retail domain.

A mobile advertising network requires both a salesforce but also its own marketing efforts and other assorted business functions currently not native to Apple. The AdMob purchase was a comfortable fit for Google, in all probability, because AdMob's vice president of engineering and top technical officer Kevin Scott is a Google alum (he served as senior engineering manager).

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]]>androidAppleBlackBerrydroidgoogleHandsethandsetsIn FocusInFocusiphoneiphone 3gIphone3gIphone3gSmobilenokiasmartphoneAlex SalkeverTue, 17 Nov 2009 19:30:00 ESTTurning dirty diapers into . . . bicycle helmets?http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/17/turning-dirty-diapers-into-bicycle-helmets/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/17/turning-dirty-diapers-into-bicycle-helmets/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/17/turning-dirty-diapers-into-bicycle-helmets/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Consider the disposable diaper. It's part engineering marvel, a mechanism that takes one of the most foul side effects of parenthood and absorbs it into a small, manageable, plastic-wrapped package. But it's also part environmental catastrophe.

The average baby makes nearly 6,000 diapers dirty before becoming bathroom-trained. Waste watchers estimate that 27.4 billion disposable diapers are discarded each year in the U.S., adding as much as 3.4 million tons to dumps annually.

And that's not all. Each disposable diaper contains plastics and, in many cases, toxic chemical residues that show up in paper products, such as the chlorine used to make those diapers lily white.

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]]>babiesbabydiapersEnergygreenlandfilllandfillsmomsmothermothersrecyclablerecyclerecycledrecycled goodsrecycled paperRecycledGoodsRecycledPaperrecyclingtrashwasteAlex SalkeverTue, 17 Nov 2009 13:00:00 ESTFacebook, aiming for global domination, is gaining quickly in Asiahttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/16/facebook-aiming-for-global-domination-is-gaining-quickly-in-as/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/16/facebook-aiming-for-global-domination-is-gaining-quickly-in-as/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/16/facebook-aiming-for-global-domination-is-gaining-quickly-in-as/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

Can Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg create the first truly dominant global social network? It's a big ambition, but it's looking less implausible all the time. Previously, social networks were strong in one region primarily or in several, but never globally. Friendster couldn't catch on in Europe or South America. MySpace was much weaker in Asia than in the U.S.

Facebook, however, is well on its way to establishing dominance in several parts of the world. Already very strong in North America and Europe, Zuckerberg (pictured) looks set to take Asia, too.

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]]>AOLasiachinaFacebookgoogleHong KongHongKongindiajapansocial gamessocial networksocial networkingSocialGamesSocialNetworkSocialNetworkingYahooAlex SalkeverMon, 16 Nov 2009 18:15:00 ESTA plan to measure carbon emissions that even a dummy could runhttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/14/a-carbon-emissions-measurement-plan-even-a-dummy-could-run/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/14/a-carbon-emissions-measurement-plan-even-a-dummy-could-run/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/14/a-carbon-emissions-measurement-plan-even-a-dummy-could-run/#commentsFiled under: , ,

As the leaders of the world prepare for the critical Copenhagen climate and environment summit in December, Michael Woelk has a message he'd like them to hear. You can't fix what you can't measure. And it won't cost that much to measure carbon emissions down to the factory smokestack. For the entire U.S., Woelk believes a carbon measurement network can be built for $300 million in less than five years. To build a global system? Less than $5 billion.

Considering that the Administration's "Cash for Clunkers" program cost over $1 billion and will have very little impact on U.S. energy consumption or carbon emissions, Woelk's proposal would seem to be one that's nearly impossible to refuse. "It's a tiny amount of money, ridiculously small" says Woelk

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]]>carboncarbon dioxidecarbon emissionscarbon footprintCarbonDioxideCarbonEmissionsCarbonFootprintenvironmentenvironmentalglobal warmingGlobalWarminggreengreenhousegreenhouse gasesGreenhouseGasesin focusInFocuswarmingAlex SalkeverSat, 14 Nov 2009 16:00:00 ESTGoogle pumps up YouTube with better HD and recommendation toolshttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/13/google-pumps-up-youtube-with-better-hd-and-recommendation-tools/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/13/google-pumps-up-youtube-with-better-hd-and-recommendation-tools/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/13/google-pumps-up-youtube-with-better-hd-and-recommendation-tools/#commentsFiled under: , ,

google-rolls-out-better-hd-for-youtube-strengthens-recommendation-toolsWith the video revolution online in full swing, Google (GOOG) kicked it up a notch Thursday with the introduction of 1080p high-definition streaming capability for its YouTube property. That's an increase of more than 30% in picture density from the previous 720p streams. Company product manager Hunter Walk announced the news at the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, an event that brought together a motley assortment of upstart players (Boxee, Clicker) and industry heavyweights, (CBS Interactive, Comcast, and Cisco Systems).

The news signifies an even deeper commitment by Google, the search giant, to provide video content that rivals what the most sophisticated cable and over-the-air broadcast networks offer.

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]]>1080pabcDisneyGEgoogleHDhdtvhulunbcNewTeeVeeNewteeveeLiverecommendationrecommendationsstreamingstreaming videoStreamingVideovideovideosyoutubeAlex SalkeverFri, 13 Nov 2009 09:30:00 ESTComcast to Boxee: Bring it on, we're ready for the competitionhttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/12/comcast-to-boxee-bring-it-on-were-ready-for-the-competition/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/12/comcast-to-boxee-bring-it-on-were-ready-for-the-competition/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/12/comcast-to-boxee-bring-it-on-were-ready-for-the-competition/#commentsFiled under: , , , , ,

comcast-to-boxee-bring-it-on-were-ready-for-the-competitionBoxee CEO Avner Ronen put up a slide at the NewTeeVee confab in San Francisco Thursday that showed a startling trend: There will be more Apple (AAPL) iTunes subscribers than Comcast (CMSCA) subscribers within a few years, Ronen contended. Them's fighting words for cable and programming giant Comcast, which is putting up a lively fight to keep control of customers in the face of incursions both from tech giants like Apple, with its Apple TV product, and upstarts like Boxee, which offers a browser that acts like a TV guide for video content available online.

To this end, Comcast is on the brink of rolling out a video-on-demand service to most of its customers that would let them watch programming paid for under their Comcast subscription on any device and over any type of reasonably fast connection. Called Fancast, this untethered access would compete directly with Apple, as well as Netflix (NFLX), Verizon (VZ) and Qualcomm (QCOM).

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]]>AppleApple TVAppleTvBoxeecablecomcastfancastin focusInFocusnbcnbc universalNbcUniversalon-demandQualcommtelevisiontvVerizonAlex SalkeverThu, 12 Nov 2009 16:40:00 ESTHP's 3Com deal could prove to be CEO Mark Hurd's ultimate testhttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/12/hps-3com-deal-could-prove-to-be-ceo-mark-hurds-ultimate-test/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/12/hps-3com-deal-could-prove-to-be-ceo-mark-hurds-ultimate-test/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/12/hps-3com-deal-could-prove-to-be-ceo-mark-hurds-ultimate-test/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd has won Wall Street accolades for turning around the once-moribund company in just a few short years. Hurd expertly cut back in slow-growing units while priming faster-growing businesses for higher performance. He pulled off a string of acquisitions aimed at broadening HP's ability to deliver consulting services, and he plugged holes in its product lineup.

Hurd also took HP's sprawling bureaucracy and turned it into a transparent cash machine with a cutting-edge infrastructure that let him see day-to-day sales trends for every unit. In other words, Hurd made HP function a lot more like Cisco Systems (CSCO), the giant network equipment maker that has been a crucial HP partner for over a decade.

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]]>CiscocscodealshpHPQHuaweiin focusInFocusInternetJuniperMAnetworkingtechnologytechnology stocksTechnologyStocksAlex SalkeverThu, 12 Nov 2009 14:21:00 ESTBing bounces back, racking up a Wolfram|Alpha deal and rising traffichttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/11/bing-bounces-back-racking-up-a-wolfram-alpha-deal-and-rising-tr/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/11/bing-bounces-back-racking-up-a-wolfram-alpha-deal-and-rising-tr/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/11/bing-bounces-back-racking-up-a-wolfram-alpha-deal-and-rising-tr/#commentsFiled under: , , , , ,

Bing is, apparently, still alive and kicking. On Nov. 11, Microsoft (MSFT) announced a deal with Wolfram|Alpha, the search engine created by Mathematica founder and math genius Stephen Wolfram. Microsoft will be Wolfram|Alpha's first partner and will incorporate results from the search engine, which aims to provide actual answers to questions asked in natural language.

This follows on the heels of Microsoft inking deals to pull in real-time update data from Twitter and Facebook. But perhaps best for Microsoft was Bing's very strong traffic growth numbers for October.

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]]>bartzgooggoogleMicrosoftMSFTsearchsearch enginesSearchEnginessergey brinSergeyBrinshoppingYahooyhooAlex SalkeverWed, 11 Nov 2009 16:20:00 ESTBrazil to rich countries: Pay up, or the rainforest gets ithttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/11/brazil-to-rich-countries-pay-up-or-the-rainforest-gets-it/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/11/brazil-to-rich-countries-pay-up-or-the-rainforest-gets-it/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/11/brazil-to-rich-countries-pay-up-or-the-rainforest-gets-it/#commentsFiled under: ,

In the run-up to the big Copenhagen Climate Talks next week, the battle lines are already being drawn as the developed world and developing world square off over who should bear the burdens of slashing carbon output in order to halt the growth of greenhouse gases. Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega flatly told the BBC on its Business Daily podcast that if the West wants Brazilian farmers to stop their deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest, the rich world will have to compensate his nation for its idled agricultural capacity.

The logic behind this argument is somewhat clear. Brazil and the other developing nations claim they are too poor to sacrifice local economic development to accommodate global needs. Further, the logic goes, the West and the developed world did most of the damage to the environment by pumping out greenhouse gases during two centuries of breakneck industrial growth. Now, the developing world says, the West needs to realize that it must pay for the lifestyle its hot-shower-taking, SUV-driving citizens consider to be their birthright.

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]]>Brazilcarbonchinacopenhagenglobal warmingGlobalWarminggreenhouse gasesGreenhouseGasesRussiaRussianAlex SalkeverWed, 11 Nov 2009 11:00:00 ESTMa Bell's wake-up call: Deals among Net calling firms may sap big telcos' revenuehttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/10/ma-bells-wake-up-call-deals-among-net-calling-firms-will-sap-b/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/10/ma-bells-wake-up-call-deals-among-net-calling-firms-will-sap-b/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/10/ma-bells-wake-up-call-deals-among-net-calling-firms-will-sap-b/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

Phones are ringing off the hook at businesses that facilitate making calls over the Internet. With the apparent resolution of the spinout of Net calls pioneer Skype several days ago has come frenzied dealmaking in the VoIP -- short for voice over Internet protocol -- space.

First, Google bought startup Gizmo5. Now, as TechCrunch reports, there is a bidding war ongoing for JahJah, a Skype-like service that offered low-cost calling to tens of millions of users of Yahoo's (YHOO) instant messenger service. Numbers thrown around for the deal are a whopping $200 million to $400 million, a significant sum in the current environment.

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]]>aaplAppleATTGizmo5googgooglegoogle voiceGoogleVoiceIn FocusInFocusiphoneJahJahskypeVerizonverizon wirelessVerizonWirelessvoipAlex SalkeverTue, 10 Nov 2009 18:45:00 ESTThe future of solar, water and greentech: Talking with A-list VC guy Brian Hinmanhttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/10/future-of-solar-water-greentech-venture-capital-brian-hinman/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/10/future-of-solar-water-greentech-venture-capital-brian-hinman/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/10/future-of-solar-water-greentech-venture-capital-brian-hinman/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

future-of-solar-water-greentech-venture-capital-brian-hinmanOn a recent trip down to Silicon Valley from San Francisco, I got a chance to sit down for an extended discussion with Brian Hinman. He is one of a growing number of A-list venture capitalists who have jumped the fence from IT into alternative energy and greentech ventures. Oak Investment Partners is one of the most venerable venture capital firms in the country, and Hinman is the firm's point man on greentech. He's the kind of guy that you have to listen to based on his track record -- co-founder of a two successful companies and a former CEO of a third. Hinman founded Picturetel, which was later acquired by telecom equipment company PolyCom (PLCM). Hinman then founded 2Wire, another telecom equipment company that ended up with revenues greater than $300 million.

So this is a guy with no Internet fluff in his pillow. Hinman is a hard-core engineer with 12 patents to his name. Hinman also loves to talk ideas about greentech innovations and sits on the boards of seven different Oak greentech portfolio companies. He has a fairly encyclopedic knowledge of the industry. Our talk ranged widely, so I've edited heavily. Here are some brief excerpts from our conversation:

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]]>alternative energyAlternativeEnergyCleantechDesalinationgreenGreenTechGreenTechnologyphotovoltaicphotovoltaicssolarsolar energysolar panelssolar powersolar-powersolar-poweredSolarEnergySolarPanelsSolarPowerSolarPoweredwaterAlex SalkeverTue, 10 Nov 2009 13:00:00 ESTFirst Droid, then AdMob: Google goes for Apple's jugular in mobile businesshttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/09/first-droid-then-admob-google-goes-for-apples-jugular-in-mobi/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/09/first-droid-then-admob-google-goes-for-apples-jugular-in-mobi/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/09/first-droid-then-admob-google-goes-for-apples-jugular-in-mobi/#commentsFiled under: , , , , , , , ,

The $750 million acquisition of mobile advertising network AdMob by search giant Google (GOOG) signals a new stage of the battle for the soul of the mobile Internet between Google and its arch-rival Apple (AAPL). The acquisition gives Google the strongest player in the fast-growing market for putting advertisements on smartphones. And it's the latest brawny move by Google in an unspoken war that has broken into pitched battle in the past two weeks.

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]]>aaplandroidandroid 2.0android marketAndroid2.0AndroidMarketapp storeAppleAppStoreBlackBerrydroiddroid erisDroidDoesDroidErisgooggooglegoogle mapsGoogleMapsGPSGpsTrackingiphoneiphone 3giphone 3gsIphone3gIphone3gSMicrosoftMotorolaMSFTRIMMsmartphoneVerizonverizon wirelessVerizonWirelessAlex SalkeverMon, 09 Nov 2009 19:20:00 ESTFiat pulls the plug on Chrysler's electric car programhttp://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/09/fiat-pulls-the-plug-on-chryslers-electric-car-program/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/09/fiat-pulls-the-plug-on-chryslers-electric-car-program/http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/09/fiat-pulls-the-plug-on-chryslers-electric-car-program/#commentsFiled under: , ,

After announcing some impressive plans to develop electric cars earlier this year, Chrysler has provided few details lately, and now we know why: the company has disbanded its crash program to produce vehicles running on electrons. Chrysler has also backed off a bold January 2009 pledge to manufacture 500,000 conventional and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles by 2013. Reuters reported the sad news late Friday in an interview with Fiat CEO Serigo Marchionne.

Fiat, reportedly aghast at the horrific condition of its newly acquired U.S. subsidiary, decided to pull the plug on the speculative but exciting effort to add some green to Detroit's also-ran brand. The move is another step in Marchionne's efforts to shake up personnel and organizational structure at Chrysler. Marchionne declared U.S. car sales "a disaster" in September, according to the Daily News in New York.

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