Despite the downturn, financing is plentiful for cleantech
By now, most people have resigned themselves to a significant and prolonged recession due to the banking crisis. For many investors and entrepreneurs, there’s a feeling of certainty that the technology industry will also be hurt. But a significant number of others, especially in cleantech, are saying that a recession might not be as damaging as expected.
Cleantech is something of a special case in tech. It’s a new industry, but one that aspires to quickly… Continue Reading
Roundup: Facebook users triple in Japan, MySpace selects citizen journalists and more
Here’s the latest action:
ComScore: Facebook users triple in Japan during the last year – But Mixi.jp is still number one, with 12.7 million visitors compared to Facebook’s 538,000.
MySpace and NBC select citizen journalists — They’ve chosen Matt Britten and Sara Pat Badgley to cover the Democratic and Republican Conventions, respectively, as part of the companies’ Decision08 contest. Britten and Badgley’s videos and blog posts will appear on MySpace, and possibly on the MSNBC TV channel and… Continue Reading