Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 18, 2011 at 11:53 am PT
A man who needs no introduction.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 21, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Big Blue teams up with the British telecom giant Cable & Wireless to join the race to provide UK homes and businesses with smart electrical meters.
Kara Swisher in News on February 23, 2011 at 11:00 am PT
Yet another “stealth” start-up came out of hiding today with a big Silicon Valley funding.
That would be Transphorm, a power conversion technology company, that has raised $20 million more in a Series C financing led by Google Ventures and including Kleiner Perkins, Foundation Capital and Lux Capital.
That adds to $18 million already raised.
Nathan Hodge and Adam Entous, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 10, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
Hackers who appear to be based in China have conducted a “coordinated, covert and targeted” campaign of cyber espionage against major Western energy firms, according to a report expected to be issued today by cybersecurity firm McAfee Inc.
John Paczkowski in News on January 31, 2011 at 4:30 pm PT
“I’ve never seen a tech company ramp up faster than they have in the last year or two,” tech lobbyist Ralph Hellmann once said of Google. “They’re using all the tools in the lobbying tool kit.” And evidently buying some new ones as well.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 22, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
Among the early adopter types I know in the tech industry, there’s a sense that casual gaming on Facebook serves an entirely different demographic from their own. The thinking is that games from Zynga and the like replace relatively mindless activities like soap opera watching.
But as someone who has just reorganized her virtual retail shops to be surrounded by virtual trees so as to accumulate more virtual bonus points, I see how social gaming–especially as it gets more social–might appeal to the desire for mindless diversions in all of us.
Kara Swisher in News on August 20, 2010 at 12:15 am PT
In a slight switcheroo from viral video, here is a cool infographic from the One Block Off the Grid solar energy blog.
As 1BOG notes:
“Facebook recently passed 500 million users. If the growth rate of the world’s largest and fastest growing social network could be applied to solar, it would only take 4.7 years to power the entire world with solar energy.”
Hot stuff.
Kara Swisher in News on July 29, 2010 at 1:15 pm PT
BoomTown is in Redmond, Wash. today to attend Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeeting, where top execs from the software giant have been taking the stage to talk about All Things Microsoft.
I liveblogged this morning’s sessions here, and now the afternoon confab, which opened with CEO Steve Ballmer, who seemed was confidently strutting around after delivering record results last week for the fourth quarter.
But can we turn around its lackluster stock?
