The search engine giant plans heavy investments in a network of deepwater transmission lines that will bring power from offshore wind farms to Coastal states, solving a problem that has long plagued the green sector: How can wind energy be transmitted from the windy ocean to less breezy locales cost effectively?
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Got a technology idea the size of New York City that doesn't let you sleep at night? The Big Apple is hosting another BigApps Challenge, calling for the best technology applications that bring the city closer to its residents, whether in the mobile palm of the hand, a desktop or the Internet itself. To make things interesting, the city lay a $20,000 cash prize down on the competition table.
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Got more on your mind than will fit into a 140 Twitter post? The UK-based VoIp startup Zingaya has launched a new social media capability that allows your Twitter followers to call you for further elaboration.
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The news recently on venture capital for clean tech startups is about as bleak as the prospect of global warming itself. Investments are down, as few venture companies are willing to put the money into the early stages of the startups, according to a report from Reuters. Despite the global push of governments ranging from the US to China, cleantech entrepreneurs are left wondering where the money will come from. Clean tech may be the latest buz
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The line between consumer and producer has blurred, thanks to a new iPhone app that uses image recognition to increase consumer interaction.
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The US Treasury Department will soon publish new rules that expand the rules for tracking money transfers coming in and out of the country. While such transactions over $10,000 currently have to be reported, the new rules require documentation of all transactions of $1,000 or more. Public civil liberty groups and financial institutions are crying foul, saying the law circumvents civil liberties. European banks have also adversely reacted to the
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Chinese officials reiterated promises to be flexible on its exchange rate amid global complaints that it undervalued, but offered no concrete steps for doing so as the US House of Representatives braces to vote on a bill to impose sanctions to help even the trading field.
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GE, the world's largest maker of power generation equipment as well as the second biggest maker of wind turbines, just decided to grow greener and bigger through a joint venture with China's Harbin Power Equipment Company.
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“This wasn't supposed to happen today- this was supposed to happen later,” TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington said from the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference stage Sept. 28 in San Francisco. Despite an audience poll telling him not to do it (60 percent for the deal, 40 percent against), Arrington signed acquisition papers with AOL, selling TechCrunch to the online media conglomerate.
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Users of China's new iPhone 4 will be surprised to discover the device bows down to the censorship and laws of the Chinese government.
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Iran has confirmed that at least 30,000 computers have been infected by the Stuxnet computer worm, a very sophisticated computer virus aimed at SCADA, or “supervisory control or data acquisition,” which run everything from power plants and factories to oil pipelines and military operations. Nearly 60 percent of all contaminated computers in the first wave of the infection were in Iran. Some experts have hypothesized that the virus is actually ai
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Clarium Capital President Peter Thiel and '80s TV icon Mr. T certainly see the world differently. Whereas Mr. T would like to see you not be a fool and stay in school, Thiel is paying 20 young entrepreneurs to just lay it all on the line and invest in an idea instead.
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Liligo Buys Voyages-SNCF.com as Commentcamarche Buys Benchmark Group
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