Kara Swisher in News on March 12 at 7:00 am PT
Can smartphones help save the planet?
Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 5 at 6:05 am PT
As the U.S. gets closer to energy independence, the investment around oil and gas exploration and the technology that helps get it done, are, well, gushing.
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.
Voices
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.
