IBM’s smartcamp global entrepreneur competition culminated in Dublin today with 9 startups from all around the world competing for the title of the “world’s smartest startup”. From 660 original applicants the final winner was Streetline, which helps cities track parking …
Here are the top cleantech stories we’re following on the GreenBeat:
Tesla expects Japan to eventually become its No. 2 market for sales after the U.S., Elon Musk told the WSJ.
EMeter has announced it will team up with …
Infochimps, an Austin-based marketplace for lists and other data sets, has raised $1.2 million in its first round of institutional funding.
The idea of a “data marketplace” sounds a bit abstract, so Infochimps chief executive Nick Ducoff gave me a …
If cleantech is going to have its “Netscape moment,” as John Doerr put it, it’s most likely going to come from companies taking a data-oriented approach.
Yes, the rise of the smart grids will bring forth billion-dollar markets in traditional …
The fear mongering about the death of unlimited data plans can finally come to a close — Verizon today announced that it is going to keep its unlimited data plan option at $30 per month, but is introducing a smaller …
T-Mobile is gearing up to introduce the cheapest tethering option yet in the U.S. with a $14.99 a month plan on November 3, according to the mobile site Boy Genius Report.
Not surprisingly, the carrier will require customers to be …
New data released today by the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Venture Research found that angel investors put much less money into startup deals during the first half of 2010 than they did in 2009, a direct refutation …
The past few months have been good to AT&T — the company reports that it landed 2.6 million new subscribers and saw a total net profit of $12.3 billion in its third quarter this year.
AT&T saw a record amount …
StoredIQ, an Austin, Texas-based company that helps corporations manage their data, today announced it has completed a $10 million round of financing led by PerformanceEdge Partners and S3 Ventures and named a new CEO.
StoredIQ’s shake-up in its executive ranks …
Twitter is readying a free real-time analytics dashboard to help users make sense of their tweets, according to the company’s business development executive Ross Hoffman.
Speaking to attendees of the Sports Marketing 2.0 Summit yesterday, Hoffman at first said that …
Guest Post
Ken Elefant is a founding partner of VC firm Opus Capital (formerly Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners) focusing primarily on internet infrastructure and software investments. Opus has more than $1 billion capital under management and has participated in the …
(Update: HP mentioned in a webcast that the offer is a follow-up to a previous one that 3Par rejected.)
One of the biggest acquisitions announced last week was Dell’s $1.15 billion offer for data storage company 3Par. Now it …
Dell today announced that it would purchase 3Par, a data storage and management firm, for about $1.15 billion. Dell is offering $18 a share in cash, an 87 percent premium over 3Par’s $9.65 Friday closing price.
The deal would give …
(Editor’s note: Suaad Sait is a co-founder of Workstreamer, Inc. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
A decade ago, company analysts were hardly in vogue. But as barriers to entry for startups tumble and competitors emerge from every corner, …
With like buttons and social plug-ins strewn across more than 100,000 sites, Facebook is rapidly gaining power to track how its nearly 500 million users move across the web. The company says it focuses on high-quality interaction such as “likes” …
London-based Timetric has raised seed funding to build out its online data service, Timetric.com. The service, currently in beta, provides numerous data sets that users can search and analyze — everything from the price of a cheese sandwich (see below) …
Credit reference and analytics company Experian, of Costa Mesa, Calif., has acquired internet marketing intelligence firm Hitwise, of New York, for about $240 million in cash.
Hitwise collects information about traffic to Web sites, getting it directly from internet service …
