Twitter to Wait Until After IPO to Name Woman — Likely With International Cred — to Board

The number of women with international experience is long, but if I were to bet whom Twitter is considering for its top picks, I would name only two: Condoleezza Rice and Madeleine Albright.

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Mobile Fourth Wave: The Evolution of the Next Trillion Dollars

Over-the-top and digital services will end up being a multi-trillion-dollar market in a matter of a decade
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Shut Down or Sleep?

Which is better: Shutting down a computer or putting it in sleep mode? Walt answers a reader’s question.

Apple Plans a Reno Solar Farm to Power Its Data Center

Going green, one data center at a time.

Nest, Now Working With Utility Companies, Will Pay You to Meter the A/C This Summer

Resist cranking up the air conditioning this summer and you’ll get a check. You just have to have a Nest. And sign up with certain utility companies. And stuff like that.

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SolarCity’s IPO Jumps After Price Cut

SolarCity Corp.’s steps to the market were uncertain, but the solar-panel-installation firm’s arrival went just fine.

Khosla Ventures Brings In Condoleezza Rice’s Firm for Strategic Role

Strategery plus!

Stream Heat

Streaming or downloading 12 tracks, without compression, just 27 times by one user would, in energy terms, equate to the production and shipping of one physical 12-track CD album.

Dagfinn Bach, in a Music Tank study on digital music consumption

Getting Gamers off the Couch: Red Robot Tests the Limits of Location-Based Gaming

Red Robot Labs is at PAX in Seattle this weekend to show off its new location-based game, Life is Magic.

Khosla Ventures Hires Ex-Yahoo Mojgan Khalili as Comms Partner

Every time a fund is raised, a new marketing VC gets wings.

Help! I'm Addicted to CityVille

Ford CEO Alan Mulally Live at D8