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- Week in review: Ikea’s war on the light bulb
- Entrepreneur Corner: Building talent pipelines and saving corporate culture
- Ustream shows off Verizon 4G Android video streaming, TV screen interface (video)
- Bugs feast on latest BlackBerry app from Foursquare
- Get ready to fondle your Microsoft Touch Mouse
- NextGen Conference 2011 takes place January 12 – new batch of tickets released
- Groupon will become the Sarah Palin of tech, and other predictions for 2011
- FCC chair: Wireless spectrum crunch is a vital economic issue for U.S.
- Multimedia search startup Qwiki raising $8M
- Verizon iPhone coming February 3? (Update: Announcement next week)
- Here are the Crunchies finalists: Vote for your favorite startups
- Where the Valley’s hottest incubator nests its companies
- Amazon’s Android app store: an exercise in narcissism
- Up close with Motorola’s new Android smartphone, the Atrix 4G
- Record $7.8 billion year for cleantech venture capital in 2010, but two quarters of decline
| Week in review: Ikea’s war on the light bulb Posted: 08 Jan 2011 09:00 AM PST Here's our roundup of the week's biggest tech business news. First, the most popular stories that VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Microsoft gives LCDs the power to see with Surface 2.0 — Microsoft's Surface touchscreen technology for large displays has shed a lot of bulk in its newest iteration, and in the process it has also given liquid-crystal displays the power to see with its new PixelSense technology. Just give up on using your iPhone as an alarm clock — One of the running jokes about the iPhone is that it's amazing, unless you actually want to use it as a phone. I guess it doesn't make a reliable alarm clock either. AT&T's answer to the Verzion iPhone: A $49 iPhone 3GS — AT&T has come up with one way to combat the fabled Verizon iPhone: Halve the price of the iPhone 3GS from $99 to $49. Android 3.0 for tablets looks like a leap beyond iPad for Google (video) – Google previewed its upcoming tablet-friendly Android 3.0 update at the Consumer Electronics Show, and it looks unlike any version of Android we've ever seen. And here are five more posts we think are important, thought-provoking, fun, or all of the above:
Tesla employee: Model S alpha prototype up and running — A Tesla manufacturing team employee, commenting on Engadget, appeared to confirm a test of the much-anticipated all-electric sedan, Tesla's first mass-market model. The company later showed off the prototype on its blog. Exit activity leapt 25% in 2010, but is 2011 the "Year of the IPO?" — Successful exit activity for venture-backed companies rose 25 percent in 2010 from the previous year, reaching levels close to those seen before the recession. Salesforce buys Web-collaboration startup Dimdim to bring Chatter up to speed — The race continues between enterprise-focused social networking services Chatter, run by Web-software giant Salesforce.com, and Yammer, a darling of the venture-capital set. VentureBeat's top 10 tech trends of 2011 (vote for your favorite) — We gaze into the crystal ball. Companies: AT&T, DimDim, Edison, Facebook, IKEA, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Tesla Motors, Verizon
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| Entrepreneur Corner: Building talent pipelines and saving corporate culture Posted: 08 Jan 2011 08:00 AM PST Here's the latest from VentureBeat's Entrepreneur Corner: How to get a VC you don’t know to mentor you – It's hard to catch the eye of a venture capitalist and even harder to convince one to mentor you. Larry Chiang, CEO of Duck9, offers tips on how to hook one. 3 steps for building an extensive talent pipeline – People, not products, are what make a business successful. Mike Cassidy, CEO of Undertone Networks, shares his secrets on how best to discover, recruit, and keep the right people for a company. Depressing thoughts on Groupon's model – The startup world might be looking at Groupon as the paragon of success these days, but Flybridge Capital Partners general partner Jeff Bussgang says he's skeptical. The early results are encouraging, but history has shown that the numbers driving new business models like this rarely have staying power. 5 things you're doing that are killing your culture – Lots of business owners talk a big game about wanting to create a strong company culture but fall short at doing it. Clate Mask, CEO of Infusionsoft, lists the five essential areas you need to excel in if you're going to have a culture others envy. The most intimate relationship you'll ever have — If your marriage goes bad, you can get out of it, but you can’t break up with a VC or angel investor. Investor and serial entrepreneur Mark Suster talks about investigating your financial partners before signing with them – and gives tips on how to do so.
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| Ustream shows off Verizon 4G Android video streaming, TV screen interface (video) Posted: 07 Jan 2011 11:56 PM PST Ustream has big plans for live video streaming on Android phones using Verizon’s 4G network, as well as for viewing video streams on big screens. Yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show, the company gave me a brief demonstration of its new offerings. Ustream has developed a slick new Android app that can both broadcast live video, as well as view and interact with live video streams. Previously, the company offerred two separate apps that offered broadcasting and streaming capabilities. As you can see in the video below, the live video stream running on Verizon’s LTE 4G network looks smooth and surprisingly clear, even on a large TV screen. Ustream says that its Android app will be included in all of Verizon’s 4G phones. Other Android users can still take advantage of the new app, but Ustream says it was specifically fine-tuned to take advantage of Verizon’s faster 4G network. Additionally, the company has developed a large screen viewing interface meant for Google TV, dubbed the Ustream Lounge. It’s accessible by any web browser by simply visiting ustream.tv/lounge. Like YouTube’s Leanback and Vimeo’s Couch Mode, it’s meant to be consumed from the couch. The Lounge has the potential to open up Ustreams content to an entirely new set of users. The company also says that its programming will be integrated in Panasonic’s televisions with its Viera Connect IPTV software later this year. It’s also introducing an app for Boxee’s web video platform. Check out a demo of Ustream’s Lounge below, as well as the new Android app running on HTC’s upcoming Thunderbolt LTE 4G phone:
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| Bugs feast on latest BlackBerry app from Foursquare Posted: 07 Jan 2011 07:55 PM PST
The new version, v1.9.10, was released earlier this evening, and an issue immediately arose where some users got a false "unable to check-in screen.” Checking in, or announcing your location to your friends on the service, is kind of the point of Foursquare. Recognizing the severity of the bug, the company quickly released another version, v1.9.11, to resolve the issue. Foursquare isn’t out of the woods just yet. According to several BlackBerry commenters on Crackberry, the new version is now leaving a white blank screen when the app is launched. (My girlfriend’s BlackBerry shows the same behavior.) A Foursquare employee named “Pete” posted on the Crackberry comment thread, saying that the company was looking into the issue and that is should be fixed within 24 hours. Regardless of the bugs, the new version does have a few upgrades worth noting, including improved tip and to-do management, ability to call a business from the venue page and improved battery life and performance. Regardless of the updates, it appears BlackBerry users are once again left wanting more. It’s tempting to blame the app developer in these situations. But given the complaints we’ve heard about BlackBerry versions of popular apps like Foursquare, we’re wondering if RIM’s aging platform and inconsistencies in behavior from device to device aren’t equally to blame. 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, Research In Motion, RIM
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| Get ready to fondle your Microsoft Touch Mouse Posted: 07 Jan 2011 05:43 PM PST
Hrvoje Benko is one of Microsoft’s visionaries in gesture-control technology. Call him Mouse 2.0 man, after the 2009 research project where he demonstrated a variety of new kinds of computer mice. The Microsoft researcher has been trying to come up with a new kind of mouse that integrates the features of popular new user interfaces such as touchscreens. The result is the Touch Mouse for Windows 7 computers. By allowing you to do finger gestures on top of the surface of the mouse, the capacitive touch technology can speed up your navigation of your computer, Benko says. The Touch Mouse allows for easy switching between apps. You can rub the side of the mouse or swipe across the surface with a couple of fingers. It resembles Apple’s Magic Mouse, but Benko says it has different features and gestures. You can do things like switch tasks or move to the desktop view by using a single swipe gesture. That means you can probably use the keyboard less and won’t have to keep closing windows in order to get to the desktop. It looks pretty well done to me, and Benko says that the company has taken pains to avoid accidental gestures, which are the bane of touch pads on laptops. Check out the video of Benko below. People: Hrjove Benko
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| NextGen Conference 2011 takes place January 12 – new batch of tickets released Posted: 07 Jan 2011 03:43 PM PST
Cory Levy, NextGen Conference founder, planned last year’s sold out event at Stanford University while attending high school in Houston, Texas. This year's conference was sold out with 150 attendees and a 60+ person waiting list. Due to overwhelming demand, the venue has been switched from Stanford University to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Palo Alto, so a new batch of tickets has become available. Speakers at this year’s event include: Peter Thiel (founder of PayPal and member of Facebook’s board of directors), Keith Rabois (COO of Square), Mark Suster (GRP Partners), Travis Kalanick (entrepreneur and angel investor), and more! See the full agenda here. For 20% off, register now using promo code "VentureBeat".
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| Groupon will become the Sarah Palin of tech, and other predictions for 2011 Posted: 07 Jan 2011 03:41 PM PST
The Groupon Juggernaut Will Slow Down Virtual Reality Will Be Hot Again … Thanks to Kinect Kinect won’t just make virtual reality hot again in 2011, but a permanent fixture in the technology landscape. Moving beyond dance and sports games, Kinect will allow for more immersive virtual worlds that were previously limited to keyboard strokes. Interactive virtual learning environments? Virtual tours of The Coliseum? With Dora the Explorer? Kids will go crazy. Virtual gladiator games? Imagine virtual dating through Kinect. Maybe go on an initial date from the safety or comfort of your home? We might be a few decades closer to a Star Trek Holodeck or X-Men Danger Room than you think. Tablet Market Explodes Mobile Commerce Poised for Takeoff in the U.S. 2011 is the year the U.S. steps into the arena. Google's Nexus S handsets all came with a NFC chip, and we can expect Apple to have NFC chips in its next-generation iPhones along with some big retail partnership announcements. RIM and others will be hot on their tails, but all this really depends on the number of merchants and big retail chains signing up for these payment services. Lastly, an x-factor and potential catalyst is the continued growth of location-based services and their convergence with commerce. Facebook, Foursquare, Booyah, and others can be huge drivers for mobile commerce's growth in the U.S. What are some of your predictions for 2011? Please feel free to share them in the comment section below.
Companies: Groupon
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| FCC chair: Wireless spectrum crunch is a vital economic issue for U.S. Posted: 07 Jan 2011 03:09 PM PST
“We have to move, and we have to move faster than our global competitors,” Genachowski said in reference to the improving wireless network technology. He said that even though US carriers may have a head start on other countries in deploying 4G networks, that lead won’t last forever without continued innovation. Thanks to massive growth in the popularity of mobile devices, including smartphones, tablets and other connected devices, we’re quickly using up our limited amount of wireless spectrum. Unleashing more spectrum and fixing America’s outdated spectrum policies are among Genachowski’s goals for the next year. “Though we can’t see it, spectrum is becoming increasingly essential to the daily lives of almost every American. This invisible infrastructure is the backbone of a growing percentage of our economy and our lives,” Genachowski said. He added that the looming spectrum crunch “threatens American leadership in mobile and the benefits it can deliver to our economy and our lives.” Last year at CES, Genachowski also discussed wireless spectrum and what it means for universal broadband in America — but we found him to be vague on actual goals. This time around, it’s clear that both Genachowski and the FCC have a plan. In March, the agency announced its long-awaited National Broadband Plan, which details what needs to be done to expand broadband access to all Americans. The FCC also voted to open up empty broadcast TV spectrum to help bring about a next-generation wireless broadband technology it’s calling “Super WiFi.” Genachowski also reiterated that the agency is working on voluntary incentives for broadcasters to auction off their wireless spectrum, something we first caught wind of early last year. Companies: FCC People: Julius Genachowski
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| Multimedia search startup Qwiki raising $8M Posted: 07 Jan 2011 03:02 PM PST
The Palo Alto, Calif. company launched at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in September, where it won the top award. You still need an invitation to access the site, but the conference judges were obviously impressed by the presentation they saw last fall, and I was even more impressed when founder and chief executive Doug Imbruce sat down to show me the product a couple of months later. The goal is to deliver a much richer information experience than what you normally find on the Web. Imbruce has compared the product to how computers work on science fiction movies like Wall-E: You ask about topics like "San Francisco" or "AOL" or "Natalie Portman", then Qwiki delivers audio narration from sites like Wikipedia, accompanied by images and other media. Obviously, there are cases where you're looking for quick bits of information and don't want to bother with a fancy presentation, but if you want an engaging overview of a topic, Qwiki offers a good way to get that. The company also wants to work with publishers to deliver their content in a richer way. And Qwiki will work on smartphones and tablets. Imbruce has said his team is working to develop a personalized experience as well, so, for example, every morning your phone could tell you about relevant weather, appointments, emails. When asked about the filing today, Imbruce declined to confirm the funding. He only said, "Qwiki has generated a lot of interest from the investor community, acquirers, publishers and more." The filing says Qwiki has raised $5 million of the $8 million round already. The company previously raised $1.5 million in funding.
Qwiki at TechCrunch Disrupt from Qwiki on Vimeo.
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| Verizon iPhone coming February 3? (Update: Announcement next week) Posted: 07 Jan 2011 12:09 PM PST
Apple has apparently blacked out employee vacation requests between February 3 and 6, a sign that it may be gearing up to launch the Verizon-compatible version of the iPhone during that time period, sources close to Apple told the mobile site Boy Genius Report. Previous reports placed the announcement of the Verizon iPhone some time in the coming weeks, so this latest news fits well into that timeline. We also previously heard that Apple may black out employee vacations for several weeks in late January and early February. BGR points out that Verizon typically launches new phones on Thursdays, and Apple doesn’t have any other rumored new products for this time period, so it’s likely we’ll see the Verizon iPhone on February 3rd. We’re expecting news on the iPad 2 in the coming months as well, but a February 3 launch seems unlikely for the tablet. Update: It looks like Verizon is holding a big announcement next Tuesday in New York, where its iPhone will likely be announced, according to All Things Digital. This makes it even more likely that Apple will be ready to ship the iPhone to Verizon users in February. Update 2: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Verizon’s event is definitely for the iPhone, citing the usual “sources familiar with the matter.” Apple CEO Steve Jobs may also make an appearance at the event, according to All Things Digital. Companies: Apple, Verizon, Verizon Wireless
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| Here are the Crunchies finalists: Vote for your favorite startups Posted: 07 Jan 2011 12:00 PM PST
Following last month’s open nomination period, we’ve narrowed down each of the award categories to five or six finalists. The voting for the ultimate winners starts right now and ends at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on January 19. Everyone is allowed to vote once per category per day. Cast your votes here. We’re also releasing our third wave of tickets for the awards ceremony, which will be held on the evening of January 21 at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater in San Francisco. Tickets cost $75 and include both the ceremony and the afterparty in the Exploratorium. They’ll go on-sale here starting at 1pm Pacific time — as with previous ticket releases, we expect these to sell out very quickly. Here are the finalists. If you’re one of them, you can encourage your fans to vote by creating a badge for your website. Best Internet Application Best Social App Best Social Commerce App Best Mobile App Best Location Based Service Best New Device Best Technology Achievement Best Design Best Touch Interface Best Bootstrapped Startup Best Enterprise Best International Best Clean Tech Best Time Sink Application Angel of the Year VC of the Year (individual) Founder of the Year CEO of the Year Best New Startup or Product of 2010 Best Overall Startup or Product of 2010 If you’re interested in being one of the event sponsors, please contact Jeanne Logozzo.
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| Where the Valley’s hottest incubator nests its companies Posted: 07 Jan 2011 11:36 AM PST
Roughly 3 out of 4 companies participating in Y Combinator’s incubator program used Gmail, Google’s mail service, as their primary email service. That includes some of Y Combinator’s most successful companies like Disqus and video streaming site Justin.tv. (The rest hosted their own email rather than using a Gmail competitor like Hotmail.) And in a sign of the popularity of cloud-computing services, which place computing demands on rented servers hosted by third parties in vast data centers rather than a company’s own machines, more than half of Y Combinator’s startups hosted their services on Rackspace and Amazon’s cloud computing options. Both services allow users to offload heavy-duty computing onto remote servers, delivering the results of computations or stored data through the Internet. Both companies also offer storage options that can be purchased incrementally (by the gigabyte) without having to buy one’s own storage hardware. Some of Y Combinator’s most successful startups, like Xobni and Dropbox, went with SoftLayer over the more popular Rackspace and Amazon cloud computing services. Posterous, a casual blogging service that has seen some success with fundraising after participating in Y Combinator, went with Rackspace. Most Y Combinator companies purchased their domain names from Go Daddy, one of the most popular sites that sells domain names. (They’re hardly alone: On the strength of its low prices and well-regarded customer service, Go Daddy is estimated to be worth $1 billion.) Y Combinator companies generally receive about $5,000 in funding, plus an additional $5,000 per founder and are relocated to Y Combinator's Mountain View locale for three months, in return for a 2-10% ownership stake. The program's alumni include Loopt, Justin.tv, Weebly and Scribd. The incubator, founded by Paul Graham (pictured above, left), has become so prevalent that it even sparked some concern over growing valuations among the investing intelligentsia of Silicon Valley. Here’s ab reakdown of Y Combinator companies’ computing preferences: Companies: Disqus, Dropbox, Hipmunk, Justin Tv, Posterous, Y Combinator
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| Amazon’s Android app store: an exercise in narcissism Posted: 07 Jan 2011 11:33 AM PST
Why did Amazon launch an Android app store this week? Chalk it up to a case of Apple envy. Thanks to the iPod, iPhone, and iTunes, Apple is now making an estimated $5 billion per year in digital content distribution. Amazon.com, caught by surprise, has been struggling to keep up in the fast-growing digital content market. It missed the boat with music. (Discount Kid Rock MP3s, anyone?) Amazon’s online-video service is caught in a netherworld between iTunes and Netflix. Even at its new lower price point, the Kindle will soon be eclipsed by the iPad and Android tablets; already, Apple forced Amazon to lower its exorbitant book distribution fees. Despite these multiple failures, Amazon still wants to make a go of it. Everybody else has an app store, from Apple to Google to Nokia and even HP. Why shouldn’t the world’s biggest online store sell apps, too? Give Jeff Bezos this much credit: He sees that everyone is vertically integrating from content to distribution to device, and Amazon.com needs a piece of this action before another fast-growing digital content revenue stream flows away. The problem is that Bezos doesn’t own a mobile platform, so he has to horn in on someone else’s. Google’s Android, as an open-source system, allows third-party app stores, so it’s a natural target. But embracing Android, while certainly easier than trying to machete into Apple’s walled garden, has its good and bad sides. There is an old corollary about open source: the great thing about open source is that anyone can do anything with it, the bad thing about open source is that anyone can do anything with it. Generally open-source projects have a natural center and one main branch, and it takes quite a lot of mismanagement to cause people to fork a project. We are starting to see some wireless carriers such as Verizon start to deploy their own stores. That’s understandable, as they actually sell phones and services, and already sell content to their customers — though, like past app-store attempts by carriers, it’s unlikely to be successful. Google’s Android Market definitely has its problems. Like Facebook, it allows any developer to submit an app, and then users can flag dangerous or fraudulent apps. However, a Facebook app hanging your browser is very different than an Android app crashing your phone. Clearly there needs to be some better application filtering and sandboxing. But does this posit the need for an entirely new Android app store from Amazon, which will manually approve apps like Apple does with the iPhone? What’s cool about Android is that there is no Big Brother approving apps. Amazon will also offer app recommendations — a vital need in the app world, and one that Amazon’s vast stores of customer data can help in. But this is a category that others such as GetJar and Chomp fill. The one clearly important innovation Amazon is offering is dynamic pricing, which will discount apps automatically to increase sales. But Google, which is a master at dynamically pricing ads, could easily copy this feature. The problem here is that Google has finally gotten all of the carriers and handset manufactures in line and is shipping relatively consistent and stable Android phones. Android is finally a viable contender to the iPhone despite its early fragmentation. Yet now, instead of software and hardware fragmentation, the Android platform has to contend with fragmented app stores. While the Amazon app store might be good for Amazon, it is definitely not good for the Android ecosystem. The good news is that it is likely to fade into the ether, since it will be difficult to convince carriers and handset manufacturers to promote yet another app store — or explain to end users, who already suffer brand confusion about who makes Android phones, why they would need another app provider. But if Amazon’s innovations in pricing and recommendations spur Google to improve its Android Market, then Amazon’s store will have served a purpose. Just not the one Jeff Bezos may have had in mind.
Companies: Amazon.com, Apple, Google, Verizon Wireless People: Jeff Bezos
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| Up close with Motorola’s new Android smartphone, the Atrix 4G Posted: 07 Jan 2011 11:00 AM PST
This kind of cool new phone is what makes Motorola’s smartphones the “tip of the Android spear,” which is pointed right at Apple’s iPhone. We got an up-close look at the Atrix 4G at Nvidia’s booth. This is AT&T's first smartphone with a dual-core chip that runs at 2 gigahertz and features 1 gigabyte of RAM. The phone is so powerful that Motorola will offer a dock that lets you plug in the Atrix 4G so you can use it as a virtual laptop. Check out our video of the device up close and personal.
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| Record $7.8 billion year for cleantech venture capital in 2010, but two quarters of decline Posted: 07 Jan 2011 10:32 AM PST
Overall, global investing totals saw a 28 percent increase compared to 2009, making it the highest year for investment after 2008 ($8.8 billion). The drawback in the last half of 2010 seems to reflect some skepticism among venture capitalists on capital-intensive investments that are risky and can take years to bear fruit. Instead, investors are looking more towards capital investments like energy efficiency. One company that has done well in that space is Opower, which recently raised $50 million in a round led by Accel and Kleiner Perkins. Venture investment in the fourth quarter of last year totaled $1.61 billion, down by 17 percent from the third quarter ($1.95 billion), marking the second consecutive quarterly decline in investing in cleantech. There were 180 deals, the same number as in the third quarter. In November, the Cleantech Group found that VC dollars flowing into cleantech in the third quarter of last year went down 30 percent compared to the previous quarter. An Ernst & Young report last year found that U.S. venture capital dollars in the third quarter were half of what was invested in the third quarter of 2009, reflecting a 22 percent decrease in deals in an overall $575.6 million in 53 financing rounds. “Venture funds are still in a cautious place” as they continue to try to raise money for their own funds, said Sheerez Haji, CEO of Cleantech Group. That makes it hard for early-stage startups, as investors look for later-stage companies where “the technology risk has been taken care of,” he said. In fact, one of the capital-intensive investments and success stories of last year is a good showcase of how pricey projects must draw from funding sources beyond venture capital. That’s BrightSource Energy, the company behind a massive 392-megawatt Ivanpah solar thermal plant in California’s Mojave Desert, recipient of a $1.4 billion Department of Energy loan guarantee and said to be preparing an IPO this year. The company raised cash from traditional venture capital funds like Draper Fisher Jurveston and VantagePoint, but also corporations like Chevron, BP and Google. It also got funding from California teacher’s retirement system fund Calstrs and infrastructure company Alstrom. Overall, venture capital in North America totaled nearly 70 percent of all the venture capital invested globally in 2010, with dollars invested surging 45 percent to a total $5.28 billion. Big deals included solar manufacturer Solyndra’s $175 million raised in the wake of a pulled IPO, $350 million raised by electric vehicle infrastructure startup Better Place, $150 million raised by BrightSource Energy, $110 million raised by Abound Solar and $165 million raised by Switzerland’s smart meter company Landis + Gyr. IPOs had a record year as well, with eight of the 10 top IPOs in China worth a combined $10 billion. The country is emerging as a huge energy market with lots of opportunity for cleantech companies. It has pledged over $7 billion to smart grid alone and continues to subsidize solar panel manufacturers that have undercut global competition in price. The top IPO of the year was the $3.6 billion offering in Madrid by the renewable energy unit of Italian utility Enel Green Power, the renewable energy unit of Italian utility Enel. Cleantech Group analysts are bullish on the cleantech IPO market for 2011, saying this could be the year much-speculated Silver Spring Networks goes public. Car sharing startup Zipcar has also filed to go public. The smart grid market continues to be strong as utilities look to invest in the segment and with huge market opportunity in China. “These will be huge monster markets with plenty of room for startups and big companies like GE and Siemens and Schneider Electric,” Haji said. The most active cleantech venture capital investors of last year, according to the report, were: Chrysalix Energy Venture (16 rounds) Draper Fisher Jurvetson (16 rounds) Carbon Trust Investment Partners (12 rounds) Element Partners (12 rounds) Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (12 rounds) [Top image via Flickr/davedehetre] Companies: Abound Solar, Accel, Alstrom, Better Place, BP, BrightSource Energy, Calstrs, Carbon Trust Investment Partners, Chevron, Chrysalix Energy Venture, Cleantech Group, Draper Fisher Jurveston, Element Partners, Enel, Enel Green Power, Ernst & Young, GE, Google, Kleiner Perkins, Landis + Gyr, OPOWER, Schneider Electric, siemens, Silver Spring Networks, Solyndra, VantagePoint, Zipcar People: Sheerez Haji
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Location-based check-in app 
Sure, we touch our computer’s mouse all day. But are we all prepared to get deeply intimate with it?
Rubbing and swiping are just some of the actions Microsoft and other companies are suggesting we do with new devices such as the 
The NextGen Conference
2011 will be a year of economic recovery and continued drama in Silicon Valley, marked by the hyped battles of Apple vs. Google, Google vs. Facebook, and Oracle vs. the rest of the enterprise world. Without further ado, here is the 4th annual edition of my technology predictions.
Bernard Moon
Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski returned to the Consumer Electronics Show this year to discuss the growing importance of wireless spectrum to the US economy.
All signs are pointing to an imminent launch of a version of Apple’s iPhone that can run on Verizon’s network, according to multiple reports.
The initial votes are in for this year’s 
A new report shows that most companies developed at Y Combinator, the much-watched Silicon Valley incubator known for both the geeky prowess of the startups it grooms and the Hollywood glitz of the investors it draws to its Demo Day events, 
Peter Yared is the vice president of apps at Webtrends, which acquired Transpond, a social-apps developer he founded. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.
New Android phones are popping up like crazy at the Consumer Electronics Show. A number of them have Nvidia’s Tegra 2 dual-core ARM-based processor, including the Motorola Atrix smartphone.
Cleantech had a record year in drawing in venture capital in 2010, with $7.8 billion invested globally, according to 
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