Week Archive
17 Jun 2013
The Week in Cleantech – June 10 – 16
By On 17 June 2013 In Cleantech Insights
Last week saw several significant deals in clean technology. First, it was revealed that Google had ultimately won the bidding war to acquire Waze, a Palo Alto, California-based developer of a smart phone app enabling crowd-sourced traffic
17 Jun 2013
HP Cloud scores big customer win, a passle of PaaS moves: The week in cloud
By On 17 June 2013 In GigaOM
HP trumpets big cloud win HP COO Bill Veghte Hewlett-Packard claimed a big win at its Discover Conference last week. On the final day of the show, COO Bill Veghte told attendees that Workday, the human resources
16 Jun 2013
Last week on GigaOM Research: all cloud, all the time
By On 16 June 2013 In GigaOM
While a series of acronyms dominated the news this week – WWDC, PRISM, E3 – over on GigaOM Research, our analysts were laser-focused on the cloud. This week, we’re featuring three in-depth research reports that look at
16 Jun 2013
Android this week: Galaxy S4 Zoom; New Nexus 7 tested; HTC One Mini pegged for August
By On 16 June 2013 In GigaOM
Samsung was the first to create a “phablet” and it looks like it’s also the first to create a “phomera”. OK, my silly name doesn’t really exist, but the device I’m referring to actually does. On Wednesday,
11 Jun 2013
The Week in Cleantech – June 3 – 9
By On 11 June 2013 In Cleantech Insights
Last week saw substantial activity in cleantech, with venture capital investments in areas like energy efficiency, oil & gas, and smart grid, as well as exciting news in public offerings and M&A. In venture capital, a regulatory
4 Jun 2013
The Week in Cleantech – May 27 – June 2
By On 4 June 2013 In Cleantech Insights
Last week we learned that EV battery swapping startup Better Place has elected to dissolve and liquidate its assets, unable to secure further private financing and amid the slow market adoption of standardized EV batteries that would
2 Jun 2013
The week in cloud: Can Windows Azure disrupt Amazon’s cloud? Stay tuned.
By On 2 June 2013 In GigaOM
Two of Microsoft’s biggest tech events are queued up for the next few weeks, TechEd in New Orleans this week and Build (formerly known as its Professional Developers Conference) later in the month and it doesn’t take a genius
2 Jun 2013
Android this week: Galaxy Tab 3 with Atom; HTC One goes stock; first Xperia ZL look
By On 2 June 2013 In GigaOM
Completely opposite from the prior week, there was plenty of Android hardware news over the past seven days. We’ve been hearing rumors and seeing benchmarks of a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 slate running on an Intel Atom
31 May 2013
Brazil Receives Requests For 392 MW Of Solar Power Projects Within One Week
By Cleantech Reporter On 31 May 2013 In CleanTechnica
392 megawatts (MW) of solar is a lot. Brazil, which has been a wind energy leader for a long time, has started to get going in the solar energy arena. As a testament to that, in one
28 May 2013
The Week in Cleantech – May 20 – 26
By Cleantech Reporter On 28 May 2013 In Cleantech Insights
Last week saw a few large venture capital rounds, and some very interesting M&A activity. Andreesseen Horowitz continued its cleanweb tear with a whopping $ 60 million investment in ride-sharing and unofficial taxi service operator Zimride/Lyft. The