Roundup: EBay looks shaky, NPR’s API, the Spoken Web, and more
EBay revenue rises, but stock price sinks — Despite a 22 percent increase in second-quarter profit, eBay is failing to convince investors that it knows what it’s doing. EBay’s earnings were buoyed by its online payments and advertising divisions, but its auction business is faltering as… Continue Reading
Feds add fuel to fire of cellulosic ethanol trend
Range Fuels, the Broomfield Colo., company racing to build the first commercial plant for producing a more efficient form of ethanol, got closer to that goal after being awarded a $76 million grant by the U.S. Department of Energy.
This is significant because cellulosic ethanol, made… Continue Reading