SunRun teams with Virgance to finance solar for consumers

in Business and Technology, deal, CleanTech

Hard economic times mean fewer consumers will shell out for expensive solar panels. Also hard hit are startups that offer no money down programs to lease panels or buy their power, but can’t find banks to partner with. So teaming with SunRun , one of the few outfits that still has a healthy line of […]

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Feb

Ethanol’s a bust, so move to chemicals, says Genomatica

Posted by: Chris Morrison

in Business and Technology

Genomatica, a bioengineering startup that says its scientific approach can rapidly find alternatives to fossil fuel-based chemicals, has some advice for the beleaguered ethanol industry: Don’t make ethanol.
The company has bred a new microorganism capable of going through the same distiller’s process that makes ethanol, but instead producing methyl ethyl ketone, a common industrial solvent […]

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Feb

Virgance gets funding, deal to install solar for businesses

Posted by: Chris Morrison

in Business and Technology, CleanTech

Virgance, a San Francisco startup with multiple business lines all focusing on social activism, has scored $750,000 in seed funding and is also unveiling a new deal that should help it install more solar panels on roofs around the Bay Area.
We’ve covered Virgance before, although that can be a difficult task, because the company contains […]

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Feb

Worio adds tag-based discovery to Google

Posted by: Chris Morrison

in Business and Technology

One of the latest attempts to break into the search market is Worio, a Vancouver, B.C. startup that uses tagging to augment results from Google and other big engines. The company went into beta last July, and today is announcing that it has indexed 100 million pages.
New search companies usually fall in one of two […]

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Feb

PowerMeter: Proof positive Google wants to run your life

Posted by: Chris Morrison

in Business and Technology, co:google

Joining Google’s Android, Calendar, Docs, Mail, Maps, Reader and a few dozen other products today is a new application, PowerMeter. It’s not launched yet, but when it is, it will help you keep track of your home power usage by tapping into information sent from your devices to your electrical meter, and from there on […]

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Feb

Inaction in IT means computing still ain’t green

Posted by: Chris Morrison

in Business and Technology, CleanTech

If you were reading VentureBeat a couple weeks ago, you may have seen an article suggesting that most people don’t care about global warming — despite a recent deluge of media about climate change and renewable energy, many people aren’t convinced. Today a new study is suggesting that the geeky, forward-thinking information technology industry is […]

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Feb

Twine, explosively growing, is an early success

Posted by: Chris Morrison

in Business and Technology, co:twine

It hasn’t been long since Twine, a semi-intelligent bookmarking service, launched last October. That means it’s too early to call the company a surefire success. On the other hand, all signs so far are pointing that way: A casual check I recently made revealed that Twine’s traffic has been growing far more rapidly than the […]

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Feb

Solar Power Partners takes on $32M for solar panel sales

Posted by: Chris Morrison

in Business and Technology, deal, CleanTech

Add another solar-as-a-service company to the list of those unfazed by the recession. Solar Power Partners, a Mill Valley, Calif. company that installs panels for commercial customers but retains ownership in order to sell the electricity from them, has taken on $32 million more in funding.
The money was reported this morning by peHUB. SPP also […]

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Feb

Borrego Solar gets $14M for the boring side of solar

Posted by: Chris Morrison

in Business and Technology, CleanTech

Solar power offers plenty of interesting and exciting technological advances to talk about. If only those advances were all that mattered, nobody would have to worry about whether the business is profitable or efficient. Yet those nasty little details persist, making or breaking companies like Borrego Solar, an installation outfit that just received a $14 […]

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Feb

Sleazy measures for sad times: VC-backed Cash4Gold attracts complaints

Posted by: Chris Morrison

in Business and Technology

If you watched the Super Bowl this past Sunday, then you already know about Cash4Gold. In a comedic coupe, the gold-smelting startup recruited both Ed McMahon and MC Hammer for one of the event’s coveted TV spots. “I can get cash for this gold medallion, of me wearing a gold medallion!” exclaims Hammer, with McMahon […]

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SunRun teams with Virgance to finance solar for consumers

Ethanol’s a bust, so move to chemicals, says Genomatica

Virgance gets funding, deal to install solar for businesses

Worio adds tag-based discovery to Google

PowerMeter: Proof positive Google wants to run your life

Inaction in IT means computing still ain’t green

Twine, explosively growing, is an early success

Solar Power Partners takes on $32M for solar panel sales

Borrego Solar gets $14M for the boring side of solar

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