Week Archive

17 Jun 2013

The Week in Cleantech – June 10 – 16

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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