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First reported 53 mins ago - Updated 26 mins ago - 1 reports

Report: Better Place to file for bankruptcy

After around $850 million in funding, and six years in existence, the electric car infrastructure startup Better Place is expected to file for bankruptcy within the next several days, reports Fortune . The Israeli business journal Globes also reported ... [Published Earth2Tech - 53 mins ago]

Entities: Better Place Inc, Shai Agassi, Israel Corporation Limited

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Where are they now (Fisker edition)? The story gets even weirder

Electric car maker Fisker Automotive has yet to file for bankruptcy or find a buyer, but it already has some alum — two former Fisker CEOs — that are working on some unusual projects. Most notably, Reuters reported Friday that Fisker founder and ... [Published Earth2Tech - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Henrik Fisker, Tom LaSorda, Clean Technology, Electric Car

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

BYOD is for amateurs. Try bring-your-own-laboratory

Smartphones never cease to amaze me. I’m still impressed by how productive I’m able to be on my Android device no matter where I am (often to the chagrin of my wife), and I’m still surprised every time I see someone pull out a Square when it comes time ... [Published Earth2Tech - 21 hours ago]

Entities: BYOD Bring Your Own Device, Toxin, Photon, University of Illinois

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Tesla CEO: With loan repayment, U.S. taxpayers made $20M profit off us

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney can now eat his campaign words — at least the part where he called Tesla a loser . Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in an interview with Bloomberg TV that now that Tesla has repaid the entirety of its loan to the Department ... [Published Earth2Tech - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Clean Technology, Electric Car, United States, Fisker Automotive Inc, Haters

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Manufacturing

Europe wants to be big in chip manufacturing

Europe is not particularly known as a major hub of the semiconductor world, but – if the European Commission gets its way – it will be. The Commission has launched a major seven-year drive to stimulate investment in the microelectronics and nanoelectronics ... [Published Earth2Tech - May 23 2013]

Entities: Manufacturing, Microelectronics, STMicroelectronics NV

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Amgen Inc

Dodgy data: the iceberg to science’s Titanic

There’s an epidemic going on in science, and it’s not of the H7N9 bird flu variety. The groundbreaking, novel results that scientists are incentivized to publish (and which journalists are then compelled to cover) seem peppered with gaps: experiments ... [Published Earth2Tech - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Epidemic, Big Data, Amgen Inc, Drugs

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

Tippy top stars of Techstars Demo Day (Boston Edition)

Techstars Boston Demo Day was in a glitzy new setting (the House of Blues withing spitting distance of Fenway) and also drew some surprising (non-tech) star power. Here are my highly subjective highlights: 1: David Ortiz. A (very fuzzy) David ... [Published Earth2Tech - 23 hours ago]

Entities: TechStars, David Ortiz, Brad McNamara

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Big data at work: 12 stories about reinvention

Big data has become something of a buzzword. Everybody talks about it, but its impact can be elusive. How is big data really changing the way companies and other organizations function? These 12 stories highlight that transformation: from helping health ... [Published Earth2Tech - May 23 2013]

Entities: Big Data, Gracenote, LinkedIn Corp, MetLife Inc

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Google X is acquiring high altitude wind startup Makani Power

Google X, Google’s lab where the company hatches big ideas like driverless cars and Google Glasses, is acquiring the high altitude wind startup Makani Power, according to an article in Bloomberg Business Week . This is the first time we’ve heard that ... [Published Earth2Tech - May 22 2013]

Entities: Makani Power Inc, Google X Labs, Google.org, Google Inc

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

If Fisker goes for $20M, that’s an over 99 percent discount from its peak valuation

Following a tsunami of bad news for electric car maker Fisker Automotive earlier this year, the company has been silent in recent months, as it’s been figuring out what will happen to it: will it be acquired, will it sell off its assets, will it declare ... [Published Earth2Tech - May 23 2013]

Entities: MiaSole Inc, Bob Lutz, Venture Capital, Electric Car

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

How robots can do more in data centers and lower the costs of operating the cloud

Machines are giving us better and better suggestions for things to read , restaurants to eat at and people to date . Behind the curtains, some of the ways these services are being delivered are also being automated. An article out Wednesday from ... [Published Earth2Tech - May 22 2013]

Entities: Robotics, GigaOM Network, Automation, Andrew Feldman, Pat Gelsinger

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

CoolEmAll project tests tools for energy-efficient data center design

A project called CoolEmAll has revealed prototype tools to aid the design of energy-efficient data centers. The European Commission-funded scheme wants data center designers and operators to test these tools ahead of a full release next year. CoolEmAll ... [Published Earth2Tech - May 22 2013]

Entities: Data Center, GigaOM Network, Cloud Computing, Consortium, Financial Crisis

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Report: Better Place to file for bankruptcy [Published Earth2Tech - 53 mins ago]
Where are they now (Fisker edition)? The story ... [Published Earth2Tech - 1 hour ago]
Dodgy data: the iceberg to science’s Titanic [Published Earth2Tech - 21 hours ago]
BYOD is for amateurs. Try bring-your-own-labora... [Published Earth2Tech - 21 hours ago]
Tesla CEO: With loan repayment, U.S. taxpayers ... [Published Earth2Tech - 23 hours ago]
Tippy top stars of Techstars Demo Day (Boston E... [Published Earth2Tech - 23 hours ago]
Big data at work: 12 stories about reinvention [Published Earth2Tech - May 23 2013]
Europe wants to be big in chip manufacturing [Published Earth2Tech - May 23 2013]
If Fisker goes for $20M, that’s an over 99 perc... [Published Earth2Tech - May 23 2013]
Google X is acquiring high altitude wind startu... [Published Earth2Tech - May 22 2013]
CoolEmAll project tests tools for energy-effici... [Published Earth2Tech - May 22 2013]
How robots can do more in data centers and lowe... [Published Earth2Tech - May 22 2013]
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The spigot of money starting to open up for ins... [Published Earth2Tech - May 16 2013]
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SunPower to sell energy storage, potentially li... [Published Earth2Tech - May 16 2013]
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Report: Better Place to file for bankruptcy [Published Earth2Tech - 53 mins ago] After around $850 million in funding, and six years in existence, the electric car infrastructure startup Better Place is expected to file for bankruptcy within the next several days, reports Fortune . The Israeli business journal Globes also reported ...
Where are they now (Fisker edition)? The story ... [Published Earth2Tech - 1 hour ago] Electric car maker Fisker Automotive has yet to file for bankruptcy or find a buyer, but it already has some alum — two former Fisker CEOs — that are working on some unusual projects. Most notably, Reuters reported Friday that Fisker founder and ...
Dodgy data: the iceberg to science’s Titanic [Published Earth2Tech - 21 hours ago] There’s an epidemic going on in science, and it’s not of the H7N9 bird flu variety. The groundbreaking, novel results that scientists are incentivized to publish (and which journalists are then compelled to cover) seem peppered with gaps: experiments ...
BYOD is for amateurs. Try bring-your-own-labora... [Published Earth2Tech - 21 hours ago] Smartphones never cease to amaze me. I’m still impressed by how productive I’m able to be on my Android device no matter where I am (often to the chagrin of my wife), and I’m still surprised every time I see someone pull out a Square when it comes time ...
Tesla CEO: With loan repayment, U.S. taxpayers ... [Published Earth2Tech - 23 hours ago] Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney can now eat his campaign words — at least the part where he called Tesla a loser . Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in an interview with Bloomberg TV that now that Tesla has repaid the entirety of its loan to the Department ...