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Corporate giants push into clean-tech venture investing
News Clean-tech investing shoots up in the second quarter, boosted by high energy prices, environmental concerns, and growing corporate activity in the clean-tech sector.
Tags: Green IT, Investments, Venture capital, Clean Technology, VentureOne, energy efficiency, LED lighting, Dow Jones & Company Inc., light-emitting diode, strategy
Number of IT venture deals falls to 10-year low
News Venture capitalists pull back sharply, shrinking U.S.-based tech deals to a level not been seen in more than a decade, according to Dow Jones VentureSource.
Tags: Venture capital, Quarter, information service, software, research director, Dow Jones & Company Inc., News.com, Web 2.0, Internet, information technology
Green news harvest: Ethanol industry falls short
News Corn ethanol companies are shutting down operations, while cellulosic ethanol from nonfood sources is still years away from commercial-scale production.
Tags: Green IT, Technology Review, electric car, CNET Australia, Offshore, New York Times Co., Dow Jones & Company Inc., CNET Networks Inc., industry, Dell Computer Corp.
US mulls antitrust challenge to Google-Yahoo deal
News The U.S. Department of Justice has hired an antitrust litigator to head any legal action over the planned search-ad partnership, according to reports.
Tags: Antitrust, Legal, Search, Internet advertising, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Advertisement, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Yahoo Search
Report: Google readying its checkbook
News Google thought startups were overpriced earlier in the year, but its recent purchase of On2 Technologies may be a sign that it's once again in the acquisition market.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Charlie Rose, Video, Cloud Computing, Nikkei, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Eric Schmidt, Google Apps, acquisition
Google developing a venture capital arm
News Search giant works to create a venture capital arm, in order to join the ranks of Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and Motorola in the role of seeding start-ups.
Tags: Venture capital, Investments, Legal, Advertising, Marketing, Search, Hewlett-Packard Co., Google Inc., Search Engine, venture-capital company
Microsoft looks to nab Yahoo workers
News Software maker touts fact that it has search-related jobs available in the Valley and in a not-so-subtle way suggests it, rather than Yahoo, is a company committed to search.
Tags: Web services, Search, Mergers, Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Advertisement, Worker, Redmond
Google will take Viacom suit to Supreme Court
News Viacom's Redstone says he's standing up for the principle of copyright protection, but Google is willing to go all the way to the mat.
Tags: Web services, Search, Video, Viacom Inc., Google Inc., Sumner Redstone, YouTube Inc., antipiracy, chairman, Dow Jones & Company Inc.
Yahoo shares dip on earnings news, Microsoft threat
News Investors and analysts find fault with Yahoo's first-quarter numbers and its stance on the takeover bid--as Microsoft's CEO says Redmond could walk away.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Security, Credit Suisse First Boston, Yahoo! Inc., software company, Stock, performance, software
Apple sued over iPhone screen tech
News Picsel Technologies alleges patent infringement for technology found in iPhone and iPod Touch that lets people fluidly zoom and pan sites, documents and images, according to reports.
Tags: Smart phones, Patents, Apple Inc., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, NTT DoCoMo Inc., Sharp Corp., Glasgow, Picsel Research, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Scotland
Transpacific undersea cable completed
News Some of the world's leading phone companies complete the construction of an undersea cable to provide more Internet capacity between the United States and parts of Asia.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Network infrastructure, Networking, Cable, Japan, phone, Chunghwa Telecom, China Telecom, data cable, Dow Jones & Company Inc.
IBM opens 'social software' development center
News Based in Cambridge, Mass., it is designed as a research hub for everything from cloud computing to social search.
Tags: R&D, Business applications, IBM Corp., Social Software, Social Computing, Cloud Computing, venture capital, social search, Dow Jones & Company Inc., internal network
US judge: Microsoft must release Windows details
News U.S. federal judge presiding over Microsoft's antitrust case wants the company to cough up more details on how its software programs work together, according to a report.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Windows XP, Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Microsoft Windows 7, operating system, compliance, online photo, Dow Jones & Company Inc.
Report: FCC inquires into Apple, AT&T rejection of Google Voice app
News Federal agency sent letters to all three companies involved. Because no complaints have been filed with the FCC, it's not a formal investigation.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Apple Inc., Google Inc., Wireless, phone, AT&T Corp., RFC, Dow Jones & Company Inc., FCC, Apple iPhone
Venture funding deals hit 11-year low
News U.S. venture capitalist investment plummeted 50 percent from the same quarter last year with IT hit particularly hard, VentureSource reports.
Tags: Venture capital, Quarter, information technology industry, venture capital industry, National Venture Capital Association, software, Dow Jones & Company Inc., industry, information technology, U.S. company
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