GreenBeat spotlight: Picarro’s “sci-fi” box may prevent cap-and-trade fraud after Copenhagen
As the United States and world consider new policies and legislation to help stop climate change, verifying whether they actually work is going to be a big deal.
And it’s really encouraging to see a bunch of companies already trying to help. Picarro is one of them. It helps monitor the atmosphere’s gases to determine whether one of the main ideas for fighting global warming, a “cap-and-trade” system, is working.
By the way, startups that help verify… Continue Reading
Dash fills coffers for Web-connected car navigation
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Dash, the start-up offering the first car navigation device designed to be permanently linked to the Internet, has raised $25 million in a second round of funding.
The Mountain View Dash will launch its device in the Bay Area in late April, and nationally this fall, goes up against a host of other market incumbents, none aspiring to be as continuously connected to the Internet.
These other players are Garmin, TomTom and Magellan. Last week, Garmin released… Continue Reading