energy

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

Lauren Goode in Product News on April 22 at 1:30 pm PT

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.

Voices

SolarCity’s IPO Jumps After Price Cut

Chris Dieterich and Cassandra Sweet, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 13, 2012 at 3:13 pm PT

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

Kara Swisher in News on December 13, 2012 at 3:30 am PT

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

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on September 2, 2012 at 11:16 am PT

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

Kara Swisher in News on August 29, 2012 at 10:12 am PT

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

Forget Cleantech — It’s Cleanweb at SXSW

Kara Swisher in News on March 12, 2012 at 7:00 am PT

Can smartphones help save the planet?

Insight Leads $165 Million Round in Cloud-Based Energy Database Company Drilling Info

Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 5, 2012 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.

Former VP and Apple Director Al Gore on Steve Jobs and More: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 18, 2011 at 11:53 am PT

A man who needs no introduction.

News Byte

Following Google, Microsoft Kills Its Energy Monitoring Service

Ina Fried in News on June 30, 2011 at 11:51 am PT

Days after Google announced plans to kill its PowerMeter service, Microsoft said Thursday it plans to discontinue its similar Hohm energy monitoring service as of May 31, 2012. In a blog post, Microsoft cited slow adoption for the service, for which hopes were high at launch in 2009.