Here are the cleantech stories we’re following on the GreenBeat today:
Boeing will test biofuel made by PetroChina, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Chinese solar stocks have stumbled since Friday’s news that the U.S. government is investigating subsidies that …
GE announced a smart grid acquisition today, the purchase of Australia-based Opal Software. It’s a move that expands the company’s smart grid software portfolio but also gives GE a pathway into the lucrative Chinese market by having a presence in …
LED lighting systems installer Redwood Systems announced this morning it has raised $15 million in equity. Backers include Battery Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners and Switzerland-based Index Ventures.
Smart grid semiconductor company Accent announced it has raised $7 million in …
GE has acquired Calnetix, a company that takes waste heat from industrial processes and converts it into electricity. In a release, GE forecasted the waste-to-energy sector as future $1 billion industry, and said it had also acquired intellectual property from …
GE announced it has formed a joint venture with Chinese company Harbin Power Equipment to service the $13 billion wind industry in China. The country is the world’s biggest market for wind turbine sales, according to the release, and is …
Users of Apple’s recently released Chinese iPhone 4 are in for a nasty surprise: Apparently, the phone comes equipped with ensored map data that complies with Chinese government propaganda, according to the site Ogle Earth.
The Chinese iPhone 4 Maps …
The battle between Apple and Google is reaching a critical phase in the mobile phone market. Today, Apple got its shot in at Google with the launch of the iPhone 4 in China, and by all accounts it was a …
Taking on Google’s Android mobile software in a key market, Apple said tonight it will launch the iPhone 4 in China on Sept. 25.
Apple said it will launch the hot-selling phone at Apple retail stores in China, including new …
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VantagePoint has created a $100 million fund for investing in renewable energy in China, focusing on investment opportunities in the city of Tianjin and the Tianjin-Bohai region in Northeast China.
Both China and the U.S. lead the world in energy …
Here’s a list of cleantech news we’re tracking today:
China has become the top country for cleantech investment, outstripping the U.S., according to a report from Ernst & Young. China’s renewable energy investment dollars outdoes the U.S. nearly two …
Ceremonial handshakes offer photo opportunities the world over, and so it is with the arrival of the first running Volt range-extended electric car in China.
And despite earlier reports–including ours–to the contrary, General Motors plans to sell the car as …
Outspark, a massively multiplayer online game publisher that brings Asian games to the U.S., confirmed it is in talks about being acquired. But the company had no comment that Shanda Games is about to purchase it.
Susan Choe, chief executive …
Chinese powerhouse auction site Alibaba.com is gathering an army of small-time online sellers as it prepares to march into the United States.
Alibaba.com acquired its second small-scale e-commerce tool in six weeks on Wednesday — Auctiva, a popular service for …
Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase said today that they will be able to launch Wrath of the Lich King, the add-on expansion for World of Warcraft, in China on Aug. 31. That’s about 22 months after the expansion launched in the …
Internet users in China are facing a phishing attack — put in place by hackers — when they attempt to access Gmail, according to a report by Fast Company.
When users visit Gmail.com, they’re redirected to a site that looks …
China’s UltiZen Games said it has raised $8 million for its game development outsourcing business in a third round of funding.
Shanghai-based UltiZen makes art and games for game publishes such as Trilogy Studios. It also develops and publishes online …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories published in the last seven days:
Android wallpaper app that takes your data was downloaded by millions — A questionable Android wallpaper app that collects your …
Earlier today, a Google status page which publicly tracks access to its services in China, reported that there was full blockage, or that search was unavailable between 67 and 100 percent of the time. But now Google says access to …
Google won a small victory today by having its license to operate in China renewed, stalling a shutdown of the site for now. But it still appears to be losing the war.
Google made a small change last week that …
