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Nokia seeks gold in mobile payments startup Obopay

Technology / Business

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of cell phones, is making a large investment in a California-based startup that wants to make the mobile phone the credit card of the developing world.


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EBay settles lawsuit filed by Skype founders

Technology / Internet

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion.


How Chinese firms benefit from the diversity of foreign direct investment

Other Sciences / Economics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New research from Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business shows that the diversity of foreign invested firms' national origin helps businesses in China benefit from foreign direct investment (FDI).


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Hewlett Packard to create 500 jobs in Ireland

Technology / Business

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US technology company Hewlett Packard is to create 500 jobs with an 18-million-euro (23-million-dollar) expansion of its global service desk operation in Leixlip, County Kildare southwest of Dublin, Prime ...


Andreessen fund's 1st investment has familiar ring

Technology / Business

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A new fund managed by Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen and his longtime confidant Ben Horowitz is treading familiar ground with its first investment - a high-tech startup already tied to the two partners.


Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is planning to invest in the island's largest producer of solar cells

Taiwan chip giant TSMC to enter solar energy

Technology / Energy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is planning its first foray into solar energy with an investment in the island's largest producer of solar cells, a spokesman said Thursday.


Grid helps find one picture in a million

Grid helps find one picture in a million

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking for images on the internet can be a frustrating business. Whether you want the perfect sunset over the sea or the London skyline by night, youre dependent on people to describe the ...


China could be $1 trillion green tech market

Technology / Business

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(AP) -- China potentially could be a $500 billion to $1 trillion a year market for environmentally sustainable "green technologies," a group of businesses and experts said in a report Thursday that urges governments to ease ...


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Microsoft, Taiwan to set up cloud computing centre

Technology / Business

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US software giant Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday signed an agreement with Taiwan to jointly establish a research centre here for the development of Internet computing technology.


Greylock Partners said Monday it has 575 million dollars in a new fund to back promising technology startups

575-million-dollar fund targets technology startups

Technology / Business

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Greylock Partners said Monday it has 575 million dollars in a new fund to back promising technology startups.


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Something to tweet about: Twitter valued at $1B

Technology / Internet

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Twitter Inc.'s founders now have a billion-dollar baby, and they seem determined to raise it without a corporate parent.


Cisco addition increases technology clout in Dow

Technology / Business

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Miles per hour - out. Bits per second - in.


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World Bank musters $5.5 billion for solar projects

Technology / Energy

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The World Bank announced Wednesday 5.5 billion dollars would be invested in solar energy projects in five countries of the Middle East and North Africa in a bid to combat climate change.


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Want to Start a Cleantech Company? Consider These 5 U.S. Cities

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (17) | comments 1

Cleantech is becoming increasingly popular as an industry. Cleantech companies are those that focus their efforts around innovations associated with environmental sustainability.


New algorithms for computerized, large-scale surveillance

New algorithms for computerized, large-scale surveillance

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A recent AFOSR-funded technology should enable the Air Force to achieve advances in object and target detection technology by using sophisticated algebraic theories called groups, rings and fields.