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Web censorship muddle can hurt Malaysia
News Confusion over government's plans to implement Web filtering system will affect foreign investment and confidence in Malaysia's policies, say industry players.
Tags: Web sites, Regulations, Politics, Censorship, Malaysia, Government, Internet Service, CEO, Internet Service Provider, Prime Minister
India goes deep into semicon market
News Country has potential to excel in integrated circuits fabrication, but must produce more engineers specialized in embedded systems, say industry experts.
Tags: Processors, Multiprocessor servers, Product development and design, Embedded System, India, Semiconductor, phone, software, China, revenue
Clean-tech investors take cue from biotech
News Venture capitalists continue to stay bullish on green tech but more people in the field say start-ups need to reconsider how best to successfully fund their businesses.
Tags: Green IT, Angel investing, Investments, Clean Technology, Investor, financing, venture capital, Boston, financial, entrepreneur
Robo-scientist makes gene discovery--on its own
News Scientists designed "Adam" to carry out scientific research automatically, without the need for further human intervention.
Tags: Robot, Robotics, Bot, Robot, Yeast, Artificial Intelligence, University of Cambridge, U.K., researcher, scientist
Microsoft the winner in Yahoo-Icahn pact?
News news analysis Microsoft may turn out to be the winner in investor activist Carl Icahn's proxy fight settlement with Yahoo, according to sources.
Tags: Search, Internet advertising, Mergers, Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., phone, stock price, co-founder, Carl Icahn
UK budget: US$1.1B cash injection for tech
News Digital technologies will share a US$1.1 billion fund to stimulate growth in the United Kingdom's "industries of the future".
Tags: Funding, Green IT, Pound, Investment, Telecommunications, Training, Manufacturing, Broadband, chancellor, financial
Venture capitalists pin hopes on green-tech 'exits'
News Green-tech sectors--solar, alternative fuels, auto, and wind--are expected to get more money from venture capitalists in the coming year, with hopes of healthy IPOs in 2010.
Tags: Venture capital, Green IT, Investments, Mobile, Google Inc., IPO, Stock, venture-capital company, KPMG Consulting Inc., Green-technology Venture
Khosla Ventures piles up US$1B for green tech
News Vinod Khosla is seeking out "science experiments" that address environmental problems and nabs former Facebook CFO and former CMEA investor to run two venture funds.
Tags: Green IT, Clean Technology, Manufacturing, Investor, venture capital, venture-capital fund, finance, biofuel, green technology, biotechnology
Wary green-tech venture investors shift gears
News Applying the venture capital model of IT onto energy isn't working, which is something many clean-tech venture capitalists will learn the hard way, say experts.
Tags: Green IT, Venture capital, Clean Technology, Department Of Energy, BP Plc, Venrock, Information Technology, Green IT, Investor, alternative energy
Facebook names a CFO, at last
News David Ebersman, former chief financial officer of Genentech, takes over CFO role in September replacing Gideon Yu, who left this spring.
Tags: Domain names, Personnel management, CFO, Gideon Yu, venture capital, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, CEO, financial, finance
Investment in tech could help the UK reinvent itself
News A London School of Economics report suggests that a 15 billion pound (US$22.1 billion) investment in broadband, smart grid and intelligent transport technology could create 700,000 jobs.
Tags: Investments, Business broadband, Report, Investment, Author, Spokesperson, Information And Communication Technology, Broadband, Government, job
Malaysia unveils national biotech policy
News Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today unveiled a new government agency tasked to develop the country's up-and-coming biotechnology industry.
Tags: Software
More M'sian states gearing for ICT-readiness
Blogs It seems to be the trend for normally backwater states to announce that they are going to be ICT-ready. Look at two r...
New biotech research lab to open in M'sia
News Jointly established by InfoValley Life Sciences and Oracle Malaysia, the facility aims to build marketable bioinformatics solutions.
Tags: R&D
MSC to venture into biotechnology, design
News Five years after its inception, the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) is set to venture beyond its role as an IT and multimedia industry hub. In the future, the MSC will act as a centre for manufacturing design and biotechnology research.
