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- On the GreenBeat: GM licenses new battery technology, First Solar acquires Ray Tracker
- The next solar hotspot is … India?
- CloudMade accelerates its location platform by buying OneStepAhead
- The most intimate relationship you’ll ever have …
- Deals & More: Zeo gets $12.3M to help you get your beauty sleep, Jinni grabs $5M to find the movie that fits your mood
- RIM can’t stop chat app Kik, which just reached 3M users
- Samsung to let its gadget users access Time Warner and Comcast programming
- Virtual currency transaction provider Tapjoy raises $21M
- Foursquare fights fake friends
- Salesforce buys Web-collaboration startup Dimdim to bring Chatter up to speed
- Privacy setting on Facebook financials to change in 2012
- Verizon’s 4G future: 10 LTE devices from Motorola, Samsung, HTC, and others
- Is online video killing the rerun market for broadcasters?
- Google demos live video conferencing on Android 3.0 (video)
- Intel shows that Portal 2 game runs fine on its Sandy Bridge chips (video)
| On the GreenBeat: GM licenses new battery technology, First Solar acquires Ray Tracker Posted: 07 Jan 2011 08:31 AM PST Here’s the latest action we’re following on the GreenBeat today:
First Solar Acquires RayTracker — Top global solar panel producer First Solar announced it has acquired RayTracker, which makes tracking technology for solar panels. Terms were not disclosed. Staff from RayTracker will be folded into First Solar’s engineering group. Landis + Gyr wins state contract in China — Top meter company Landis + Gyr has an agreement with the State Grid Corporation of China to supply more than 10,000 smart meters in six provinces, Greentech Media reports. The utilility covers 80 percent of China, so a successful rollout could lead to bigger opportunities in the country, which one of the fastest-growing energy and cleantech markets in the world. Nissan teams with Sumitomo for membership-based charging stations — The automaker behind the all-electric Nissan Leaf (pictured) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Sumitomo and NEC Corporation to study developing charging facilities for electric cars that customers can opt into via a membership program in Japan. The stations will be installed at locations like apartment complexes and parking garages, Autoblog Green reports. Companies: First Solar, NEC Corporation, Nissan, Ray Tracker, State Grid Corporation of China, Sumotomo People: Landis + Gyr
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| The next solar hotspot is … India? Posted: 07 Jan 2011 07:11 AM PST
That’s according to a new report by a new report by Lux Research examining emerging markets for solar power. The current global poster child for solar is Germany, which added 8 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity in 2010 and accounted for half of the global solar market. At minimum demand the entire German electricity grid consumes around 31 GW. However, Germany’s solar dominance may be starting to wane since its generous guaranteed rates for solar power are being reduced. The other top markets globally in 2010 were Japan, China, and Italy. Italy has been booming with installations in 2010 rising to 1.9 gigawatts, up 100 percent from 2009, according to research firm iSuppli. Overall though, the pace of installations in Europe is slowing. IHS Emerging Energy Research is projecting total new installations of 10GW to 13GW across Europe in 2010, declining to between 7 and 9 GW in 2011. The U.S.currently accounts for only 6.5% of global solar PV (photovoltaics – solar panel technology) demand and most of that comes from California. A previous report from Lux Research predicted that China’s demand will grow strongly in the next few years as will North America’s. Beyond those countries, Lux Research evaluated emerging markets based on the quality of the solar resource, current electricity demand and favourable regulatory environment. Countries with high levels of energy imports and low grid efficiency may also be more inclined to encourage solar installations. Based on these criteria, it identifies India as a top target for solar energy.
India also has the poorest grid infrastructure of the countries surveyed. 30 percent of all electricity is lost during distribution due to poor infrastructure and theft. This makes it suitable for smaller, distributed installations of solar, as well as utility-size projects, since they can be used to serve off-grid populations and reduce electricity losses. India’s National Solar Mission has introduced cash grants and favorable electricity rates for solar installations. $1 billion of funding has been allocated up to 2013 to promote 1 GW of utility-scale plants, 100 MW of distributed PV installations and 200 MW of off-grid installations. Cash grants of 30 percent of install costs are available for off-grid installations less than 250KW. India’s solar market has already started to heat up with the country seeking 300 MW of solar bids this month alone. Another high-potential market identified in the report is, surprisingly, the rain-soaked United Kingdom. Although the UK does not have a great solar resource, it has very attractive feed in tariffs and a streamlined process for approval of subsidies. Lux Research estimates that the UK could accommodate 20 GW at 5 percent market penetration. Companies: Isuppli, Lux Research
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| CloudMade accelerates its location platform by buying OneStepAhead Posted: 07 Jan 2011 06:00 AM PST
I last spoke to CloudMade chief executive Juha Christensen when the company raised its second round of funding in July. At the time, he acknowledged that there are competitors (such as SimpleGeo) offering tools to create location apps, but he said CloudMade offers more than detailed data to power "hundreds of thousands of apps in different verticals." Yesterday, Christensen told me OneStepAhead's technology advances that goal by managing the way mapping data is downloaded onto phones. That means CloudMade developers will be able to build apps where more of the data is stored on phones, so users can access maps when they're offline. They’ll also use less mobile data since they're not downloading maps again and again. OneStepAhead (which was self-funded) is based in Stuttgart, Germany, so that gives CloudMade an office near the German auto industry, which Christensen said has created a big market for location apps in that country. Menlo Park, Calif.-based CloudMade has raised $15.7 million from Greylock Partners and Sunstone Capital. Its cofounder Steve Coast also cofounded the community mapping project OpenStreetMap, and CloudMade draws its data from its project. You can see some of the apps built on its platform at this website. Companies: CloudMade, OneStepAhead People: Juha Christensen
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| The most intimate relationship you’ll ever have … Posted: 07 Jan 2011 06:00 AM PST “Raising venture capital is worse than marriage,” says investor and serial entrepreneur Mark Suster. When a marriage doesn't work out, you can get divorced, but there's no separation from your VC or angel investors. In this entrepreneur thought leader lecture given at Stanford University, Suster encourages startup owners to thoroughly research investors before accepting their money – and tells you how to do that. (Can’t see the video? Click here)
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| Posted: 07 Jan 2011 06:00 AM PST Today’s funding announcements include gadgets for better sleep, movie advice and web-based learning:
Jinni gets $5M to make TV and movie suggestions: The company has raised a second round of funding from telecom operator Belgacom and Israeli firm DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures for its TV and movie recommendation guide, peHUB reports. Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company gives advice based on a viewer’s tastes and mood and can be integrated with popular services like Netflix, iTunes and Hulu. Presence TeleCare raises $3.9M to help kids learn from afar: The San Francisco-based company has raised equity funding to provide students around the country with web-based speech therapy, according to a filing with the SEC. The company, which previously received grants from the U.S. Department of Education, has already used its video conferencing technology to conduct more than 30,000 speech language pathology sessions in schools. OMGPOP scores $10.1M to play more social games: The startup has closed a second round of funding from Rho Capital, Softbank, Spark Capital and Betaworks to invest in new games for Facebook, Android and iPhone. Based in New York, the developer of multiplayer social games says it plans to release five new games in the next six months and is racking up 50,000 new users daily. Companies: Belgacom, Best Buy Capital, Betaworks, Dfj Tamir Fishman Ventures, Hulu, ID Ventures America, iTunes, Jinni, Johnson & Johnson Development Corp., Netflix, Omgpop, Presence TeleCare, Rho Capital, Softbank, Spark Capital, Trident Capital, Zeo
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| RIM can’t stop chat app Kik, which just reached 3M users Posted: 06 Jan 2011 06:59 PM PST
Today, however, Kik chief executive Ted Livingston (a former RIM employee) told us that the application is still finding an audience on iPhones, iPods, and Android devices — it now has 3 million registered users. That's really impressive for a service that launched less than three months ago. (I was just marveling at photo-sharing app Instagram, which launched at around the same time and reached 1 million users last month.) VentureBeat founder Matt Marshall is a huge fan of the app. He praised the way it helps you find address book contacts who have also downloaded Kik, and that Kik gives text conversations on your phone a much more real-time feel by showing when messages are delivered and read, or even when your contact is typing out a response. In discussing the growth, Livingston got theoretical, noting that "strong tie" social relationships (like your connections on Kik) are more important than "weak ties" (like most of your "friends" on a site like Facebook) and that text messaging dominates communication between strong ties. As evidence, he pointed to a presentation from Google's Paul Adams (now at Facebook). Livingston wrote:
Companies: Kik People: Ted Livingston
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| Samsung to let its gadget users access Time Warner and Comcast programming Posted: 06 Jan 2011 06:40 PM PST
A bunch of Samsung’s new TVs are now web-connected, as are its newest Android-based smartphones and tablets. That means they can use internet protocols to get movies and TV shows directly from Comcast via its new Xfinity TV app on Samsung’s Smart TVs or via the new Xfinity app for the Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet. Time Warner Cable has similar apps that let users access programming. Yesterday, Time Warner Cable cut the same deal with Sony. The companies made the announcement during the keynote speech of Samsung executive B.K. Yoon at the Consumer Electronics Show, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas.
Another interesting thing is that the connected TV allows the cable content providers to supply content directly to Samsung, rather than sending it through a cable TV box, so you could watch cable TV shows without getting a cable TV box. Yoon said the deals reflected the fact that users want to access content anytime, anywhere, in any form. In that sense, the deals reflect one of the major themes of the show: that technology can break down walls between industries, markets and users. Companies: Comcast, Samsung, Time Warner Cable People: B.K. Yoon, Brian Roberts
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| Virtual currency transaction provider Tapjoy raises $21M Posted: 06 Jan 2011 05:40 PM PST
Tapjoy was originally called Offerpal — a name synonymous with somewhat shady deals in social games. Offerpal worked with companies to get users to sign up for deals ranging from credit cards to Netflix subscriptions. Users earned Farmville cash and other types of virtual currencies after signing up. Critics said the deals sometimes tricked users into signing up for things they didn’t want. Offerpal bought Tapjoy in February last year, and changed its name to Tapjoy as part of a renewed focus on mobile applications that use virtual currencies. But it was more about shifting away from that image associated with inappropriate promotions and tricky situations on social networks. As of October, the company was managing around 250,000 virtual transactions each day from apps running on Apple’s iPhone operating system. Advertising deals that give users a way to “earn” virtual currencies like Farmville cash are still a big part of the company, said Shannon Jessup, vice president of global sales and marketing for Tapjoy. The company still works with retailers like The Gap and Blockbuster to give users access to deals and other ways to earn virtual currencies. There are around 1,200 different advertising deals available to users. Facebook plans to migrate its entire system over to Facebook Credits, an official virtual currency for all the applications running on the social network. But that hasn’t happened just yet, leading Tapjoy to bring in its best month of virtual currency transactions yet in December, Jessup said. Tapjoy is already prepared for the upcoming switch over to Facebook Credits, and is used on a number of other social networking sites like MySpace and Yahoo. It’s also the transaction method for some stand-alone games like Gaia Online. The funding is intended to help market Tapjoy’s services internationally. The company especially wants to expand in Asia, where social games and virtual currencies are prevalent, Jessup said. The company also plans to hire additional staff. The San Francisco, Calif.-based company has raised $40 million to date. Rho Ventures led the latest round of fundraising. Existing investors InterWest Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners and D. E. Shaw Ventures also participated in the round. Companies: Facebook, MySpace, Offerpal, Tapjoy, Yahoo People: Shannon Jessup
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| Foursquare fights fake friends Posted: 06 Jan 2011 04:44 PM PST
Users now have a limit on the total number of friends they can have as well as the number of friend requests they can send, a change first noticed by AboutFoursquare.com. For the average user, this may not be an issue: Most users don’t want thousands of people knowing where they are at any given time. So the policy is likely targeted at businesses looking to take advantage of creating a profile on Foursquare. Like Twitter, the microblogging network for posting short status updates, Foursquare allows businesses to create profiles in the same way that people do. That liberal policy is unlike Facebook, the dominant social network, which only allows real human beings to create profiles and requires businesses to use a different format called Pages. Some companies have been randomly sending friend requests to thousands of Foursquare users, like Bastardjeans.com, which currently has 61, 923 friends. Why would they do this? Well, the benefit comes when one of those users checks in to a venue where Bastardjeans.com has left a tip. Since friends’ tips are displayed first, Bastardjeans.com gets more visibility. Other advantages include being able to know where these users are from their check-ins, as well as being able to send them messages, since many Foursquare users share contact information with friends. All of these could be advantageous to a business looking to promote itself — though it’s probably not how Foursquare or most of its users envisioned the service operating. Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley told VentureBeat that the startup is constantly working to adjust the balance between letting businesses engage with users, while at the same time trying to keep a positive user experience. Asked what the limits on friends and friend requests would be, Crowley said, “I think they’re still in flux right now.” As of right now, Foursquare’s major competitors, Gowalla and Scvngr, do not have plans to restrict total friends or friend requests. While Foursquare is still young and most users have few friends compared to the bigger social networks, one wonders if the restrictions may push some avid users to eventually go with another location-based applications with fewer restrictions. That happened with Friendster, an early social network which cracked down on fake profiles and lost ground to the less-restrictive MySpace. Foursquare, based in New York City and founded in 2009, has raised more than $21 million in funding. It currently has more than 40 employees in its hometown and a new engineering office it's opening in San Francisco. Companies: Foursquare, Gowalla, Scvngr People: Dennis Crowley
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| Salesforce buys Web-collaboration startup Dimdim to bring Chatter up to speed Posted: 06 Jan 2011 03:32 PM PST
Salesforce announced today that it will buy Web conferencing provider Dimdim for $31 million to bring real-time messaging and collaboration tools to its Facebook-style enterprise collaboration service Chatter. Dimdim provides its users with a cheap alternative for setting up online and remote meetings. That includes real-time messaging, screen sharing and other additional services. Most of its services have been popularized by consumer-oriented services like LinkedIn and Facebook. “We really want to follow the Facebook model,” said Kendall Collins, chief marketing officer for Salesforce. “Many of the technologies that Dimdim brings are similar to key aspects of what Facebook delivers.” The actual Dimdim service will not shut down, and Salesforce will honor all existing contracts. They won’t be accepting any new contracts as the technology is folded into Chatter. Salesforce doesn’t plan on using Dimdim for its web conferencing service, despite that being Dimdim’s specialty. Instead, the company plans to duct tape some of Dimdim’s technology onto its Chatter service. “Think about that green dot and knowing that people are online and you can communicate in real time, that’s a critical aspect of what Dimdim delivers,” Collins said. Salesforce didn’t disclose when the new features would go live on Chatter, but said that a working demo would be available at its 2011 Dreamforce conference in August later this year. Salesforce doesn’t see it as a way to bring its social collaboration service up to speed with the rest of its competitors, Collins said, one of the company’s largest competitors, has had real time chat and Skype integration for video conferencing for some time now. Chatter has so far been deployed by more than 60,000 companies. Salesforce’s largest Chatter customer, Dell, has around 100,000 active users — while the rest of its paying customers have around 5,000 active users. Yammer has been deployed by more than 100,000 companies — and 80 percent of the largest companies in the world on the Fortune 500 list use the service. Yammer also recently picked up $25 million in funding to help expand its efforts. Chatter — originally a quite costly service, requiring users to be Salesforce customers or pay $15 per user per month — became free to use late last year in order to compete with the freemium collaboration services like Yammer. The move to a freemium model, which entices users with a free service and then charges for premium services, was a long time coming according to some of its investors. Salesforce also plans to release Chatter.com, an enterprise-style social network like Facebook, sometime this year. This is the third major acquisition by Salesforce in less than a month. Salesforce dropped a whopping $212 million on ruby-on-rails web application developer Heroku in December, and then spent undisclosed amount on email contact manager Etacts. That’s almost half of the cash Salesforce had on hand at the end of its most recent operating quarter, according to the company’s most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Dimdim has raised $9 million in funding and is a graduate of the DEMO Fall 2007 conference. Dimdim was founded in March 2006 and is headquartered in Lowell, Mass. Its investors include Index Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners and Draper Richards. [Photo: antwerpenR] Companies: salesforce, Yammer People: Kendall Collins
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| Privacy setting on Facebook financials to change in 2012 Posted: 06 Jan 2011 03:16 PM PST
The news came to light in a memo sent to the investors that Goldman Sachs lined up for Facebook. In the memo, Facebook says that it expects to surpass 500 shareholders this year, a key threshold set by the Securities and Exchange Commission for the regulation of private companies. That, in turn, would mean Facebook has to either go public or disclose the same financial information as public companies by April 2012. It’s possible for a company to cross the threshold without public disclosure, as long as they bring their shareholder number under 500 by the end of the fiscal year. That might support Fortune’s earlier report that Facebook wants to use the Goldman funding to buy back shares from its employees. In other words, Facebook might cross the threshold but then buy back enough shares to go under again. But today’s articles make it sound like that isn’t what Facebook has in mind (though it’s hard to speculate since neither newspaper quotes the memo directly.) After news leaked about Goldman's investment in Facebook, there has been plenty of debate about Facebook’s intentions. (The firm reportedly invested $450 million at a $50 billion valuation, and could raise another $1.5 billion from its clients. You can read more about the history of the deal here, including the fact that Goldman only originally planned to invest $300 million.) Does the funding set the stage for an IPO, or is it a way for Facebook to stay private? The memo presents strong evidence in the "IPO" column, though John Coffee, a law professor interviewed by the Journal, notes that Apple and Google both started reporting their financials publicly "well ahead of doing an IPO." Some financial information out has already leaked out through the same investor document, which says Facebook made $355 million of profit from $1.2 billion in revenue during the first nine months of 2010. (Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has said that the company isn't focused on profitability yet.) Companies: Facebook, Goldman Sachs
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| Verizon’s 4G future: 10 LTE devices from Motorola, Samsung, HTC, and others Posted: 06 Jan 2011 02:51 PM PST Verizon Wireless is gearing up to get more devices on its recently launched LTE 4G network. The company today announced 10 LTE 4G devices at the Consumer Electronics Show, all of which will be available in the first half of 2011. The company showed off four smartphones, two tablets, two mobile hotspots and two notebooks with LTE 4G capabilities — a big improvement over its current batch of LTE devices, which thus far amounts to several USB modems. LTE, short for Long-Term Evolution, is a wireless technology capable of significantly faster speeds than current 3G, or third-generation, wireless-network technologies. Its main competition is WiMax, though LTE appears to be winning the standards race. As expected, HTC’s Thunderbolt was announced, and we also saw the LG Revolution, Motorola Bionic and Xoom tablet, and several devices from Samsung — including a new 4.3-inch smartphone, a mobile hotspot and a LTE Galaxy Tab. In terms of computers, Verizon showed off an HP Pavilion notebook and a Compaq netbook. There’s also an LTE version of the Novatel Mifi, which lets you share the LTE connection with up to five other devices. Verizon also brought representatives from Skype and Activision on stage to demonstrate how they will take advantage of 4G speeds. Skype says that its next mobile version will be “deeply integrated” into Verizon’s 4G phones (and we assume tablets), all of which feature front-facing cameras for video conferencing. Activision showed how 4G could benefit multiplayer in mobile games, using Rock Band Mobile as an example. I had brief chance to play around with the Thunderbolt, and it felt just as fast as the Nexus S. In a live bandwidth speed test, the phone got an average download speed of around 18Mbps, and an upload speed of around 2Mbps. Verizon was still coy about how the LTE phones would manage simultaneous voice and data connections. Some phones would support simultaneous data/voice, while others won’t. No real explanation was given for the discrepancy. The company also isn’t ready to talk about its 4G pricing plans yet. Companies: activision, Compaq, HTC, motorola, Samsung, Skype, Verizon, Verizon Wireless
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| Is online video killing the rerun market for broadcasters? Posted: 06 Jan 2011 02:29 PM PST
That, he said, is why TBS pulled out of the bidding for reruns of the popular ABC show “Modern Family” after reportedly offering $1 million per episode. The show “was a little too prevalent on the Internet,” according to Kent. Or maybe Turner simply got outbid: The USA Network snapped up the show for $1.4 million per episode. Given numbers like that, it’s hard to conclude that rerun networks are being hurt much. “So far, there are no signs of that happening,” writes Joe Flint of the Los Angeles Times. But, “down the road it is likely to become an issue or at least a negotiating ploy for buyers of reruns.” Kent told Flint in an interview that Turner is even now demanding terms in its negotiations for reruns that would put limits on how many platforms shows will run on. At the same time, though, he undercut his argument somewhat by insisting that people aren’t giving up their cable-TV service in large numbers in favor of watching shows over the Net. “We just don’t see it,” he said. Kent also made a speech on Wednesday at the Citigroup Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference in which he warned that Netflix, in particular, is enough of a threat that outfits like TBS and TNT could upend the market for reruns. “We tell our suppliers, the studios we buy from: This is going to have a significant impact on what we'll be willing to pay for programming or even bid at all,” he said. And he noted the hardball tactics that he and other buyers are employing: demanding in negotiations with studios that Netflix be barred from securing reruns that cable networks and others are buying. “I think there's a heightened sense across the industry of the importance of freezing those rights, and that's what you see us from us in the future," he said, according to PaidContent. “We're going back to other series on renewals and attempting successfully to retroactively freeze the SVOD rights.” One irony here is that Turner and Warner Bros. (which owns and sells a lot of reruns) are both owned by Time Warner, which might make for some awkward company picnics this summer. Companies: Hulu, Netflix, Turner Broadcasting, Warner Bros People: Phil Kent
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| Google demos live video conferencing on Android 3.0 (video) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 01:26 PM PST
VentureBeat’s Devindra Hardawar observed that Android 3.0 looks like a leap beyond iPad in terms of features that users will want for tablet computers. Check out the video below.
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| Intel shows that Portal 2 game runs fine on its Sandy Bridge chips (video) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 01:09 PM PST
But Intel’s latest Sandy Bridge chip, which combines graphics and microprocessor functions on a single piece of silicon, has about 25 times the graphics quality of its chip sets from five years ago. The result is that it can play high-end games, such as Valve’s upcoming Portal 2 game for the PC. Releasing in April, Valve has primed its game, a sequel to a hit indie game, to run well on Sandy Bridge.
Companies: Intel, Nvidia, Valve People: Gabe Newell, Mooly Eden
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GM to license battery technology from the U.S. – GM 
Which markets have the best prospects for long-term growth in solar energy? The winner, surprisingly, is India, with its abundant sunlight, exploding demand, and gigantic, mostly off-grid population.
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Zeo raises $12.3M to teach you how to sleep well: The Newton, Mass.-based 
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What this means is that the legacy geographic barriers between cable TV companies are now disappearing. If you lived in Time Warner Cable territory, you could never access shows in Comcast cable TV territory. Now you can by accessing the programming through the internet. Comcast’s XfinityTV.com has 150,000 movies and shows on the web that are now available for viewing on Samsung devices, said Brian Roberts, chief executive of Comcast, speaking at the keynote.
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The race between enterprise-focused social networking services Chatter, run by Web-software giant Salesforce.com, and Yammer, a darling of the venture-capital set, goes on.
A document sent to potential Facebook investors suggest that the social networking company intends hold its initial public offering by mid-2012, according to reports 
Streaming TV shows online — whether via network websites or services like Hulu and Netflix — represents a major threat to networks that depend on reruns, says Phil Kent, CEO of Turner Broadcasting, which owns networks like TBS and TNT that depends on reruns.
For years, Intel’s integrated graphics have been the bane of PC games. The graphics on Intel’s chip sets were so poor that they couldn’t support high-quality 3D games.
But rivals Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices say that Intel’s Sandy Bridge, officially released this week, is still fairly week on high-end graphics. It can’t, for instance, support DirectX 11, the latest version of Microsoft’s games standard. Enter Gabe Newell (pictured above, left), chief executive of Valve, who said that Sandy Bridge is great for the PC game industry because it preserves the PC as a cool game platform. Mooly Eden (pictured above, right), a senior executive at Intel, also showed World of WarCraft: Cataclysm, which was released in December, running fine on Sandy Bridge. Check out the video below of Portal 2 running on a Sandy Bridge machine.| You are subscribed to email updates from VentureBeat To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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