Atieva, maker of advanced batteries for plug-in cars, has brought in $7 million in equity, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in Mountain View, Calif., the company is backed by the China Environment Fund and Venrock.…
C3, a secretive company working on a new way to gauge carbon emissions footprints, has brought in $26 million of an anticipated $43.4 million third round of venture funding, according to a filing with the SEC.
Despite facing several key …
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(Editor’s Note: The Start-up Chronicles is a weekly feature giving an inside view of the trials of a bootstrapped start-up – The Cost Savings Guy. CEO and founder Bruce Judson is also the author of “Go It Alone!: The Secret …
Here it is, New Year’s Eve, and I have exhausted all of my other list opportunities. Now it’s time to consider the best games of the decade. I procrastinated on this one because it wasn’t easy to do. But then …
It’s a time of big change in the game industry, but Kenny Rosenblatt is used to it. In 2001, he co-founded Arkadium with his wife Jessica Rovello. The New York-based company originally started as a casual game site. But that …
If you’re an ambitious young tech entrepreneur with a compelling product hacked together and a slide-deck in hand, there’s always one giant elephant in the room.
That, of course, is Google.
The search giant has made a ton of product …
Japan’s ADM has purchased Israeli startup Explay for $550,000. Investors put an estimated $7 million into the maker of pico-projectors, which can be used in cell phones or other devices to project bright images onto walls. Texas Instruments, which makes …
The Netherlands will use full body scanners in screening airline passengers as a result of the lapse in security that allowed a would-be terrorist bomber on board a jet from Amsterdam on Christmas Day. The scanners will allow security personnel …
No matter how fast we learn to type, it’s never going to catch up to how fast we can speak. Luckily for us, technology might mean it doesn’t have to. Voice-to-text technology is entering more and more industries, and has …
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Apple’s Jan. 26 announcement? — Chasing the Financial Times, Fox News reports it has confirmed that Apple will announce a new product in San Francisco that day. Is it a tablet or an e-book reader? The …
The U.S. Department of Energy has finally made good on its threat to take its Energy Star label off certain refrigerators made by Korean giant LG Electronics. The move is indicative of the DOE’s new, tougher approach to energy efficiency …
Grey-haired Mac users probably remember Filemaker, an easy-to-use database application for the first Macintosh computer in 1984. Some of them still use it. I know a reporter who maintains a decades-old Filemaker database of people he’s spoken to on the …
California is poised to meet its lofty renewable energy goals — at least on paper. Right now, 200 renewable energy products totaling 70 gigawatts of energy are under consideration in the state. Not all of them will pass muster — …
It’s a little known fact — the Earth’s geothermal resources could satisfy the world population’s power needs many times over. So why is it only generating little over 10 gigawatts of power globally? The prime reason: Few companies have figured …
Hulu chief executive Jason Kilar, who heads the online TV megahub that offers commercial-sponsored shows and excerpts from NBC, Fox, ABC and a couple hundred cable channels, blogged a thank-you note to viewers today.
This being the television industry, Kilar’s …
The Carbon Trust, a United Kingdom-based nonprofit set up by the British government, has awarded $720,000 to fund new lighting technology that could lower your power bill and carbon footprint in the next few years.
The money is going to …
As social media platforms continue to gain popularity, we as users have begun to be confronted by large amounts of information that sometimes seems unmanageable. A number of startups have come up with solutions for bucketing tweets and other social …
Update: These tickets are now sold out.
The third batch of tickets is now available for the third annual Crunchies, the tech awards co-hosted by TechCrunch, GigaOm, and VentureBeat.
We have 150 balcony seats available for $45 each (we’re out …
Anil Dash is a popular technology blogger who worked at blog software maker Six Apart before becoming director of Expert Labs, a technology think tank. He proudly counted more than 18,000 followers on Twitter.
Then, in October, Dash’s Twitter account, …
Online holiday spending rose 5 percent to $27 billion during the holiday season, according to market researcher comScore.
Sales were measured from Nov. 1 to Christmas Eve. Adjusted for the extra day of shopping this year compared to last year, …
