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Intel is best known for its CPUs, but it is no small secret that it also has a habit of investing in ventures and inventions it considers worthwhile, like Tobii's eye-tracking technology.
Tobii is a 12-year-old Swedish company that, despite its age, hasn't exactly made many headlines so far because of its... |
16 March 2012
11:19 GMT |
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An analyst has estimated that the total expenditure for the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic from publisher Electronic Arts is over 500 million dollars (about 391.1 million Euro), which takes into account both the development and the marketing costs for the project.The estimate comes from Doug Creutz, who is an analys... |
18 January 2012
18:41 GMT |
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SoundCloud has announced a major investment from several venture capital firms. Though the sum is undisclosed, it's pegged at $50 million, giving the company a valuation of $200 million, €154 million. It's a big sum, but the investment firms get a big chunk of the company in return.
"SoundCloud, the l... |
3 January 2012
05:40 GMT |
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Denmark redefines itself as an eco-conscious nation through its passion for cycling. A recent study indicates that if every European residents were to embrace the same healthy habit, Europe would be able to curb greenhouse gas emissions by up to 25%.
The report was issued by European Cycling Federation (ECF). It suc... |
12 December 2011
05:57 GMT |
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Dirty coal business is still in the game mostly because it's profitable. Banks know it best, since they invest billions of dollars every year in this field of activity. A recent reports reveals that JP Morgan Chase is, by far, the most influent player, backing the coal industry with no less than $22 billion (&eu... |
2 December 2011
03:30 GMT |
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The PC market is getting more varied, and even challenged in some cases, so the companies involved have to get creative, hence what reports say is being done by some companies.
The past year might not have started out that way, but it ended up changing enough of the PC market that it got large-scale companies serio... |
24 November 2011
10:27 GMT |
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Microsoft chairman thinks the development of renewables should be a top priority when it comes to governmental support. Bill Gates says that boosting alternative sources of power is currently the only available option America has to exceed the efforts of eco-conscious nations already bragging about their progress in ... |
24 November 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Google has decided to shut down a previously announced project aiming to reduce the costs of renewable energy, by looking for improvements to solar power technology. Its RE<C engineering team will no longer focus their attention on this objective, with the company saying that other enterprises have a better po... |
24 November 2011
02:41 GMT |
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Even though common individuals might not be able to forecast a growth in the department of renewables, experts in this field of activity say that global investments will double their present rates, boosting the whole industry and making it function at its entire capacity.
According to a new report released by Bloom... |
17 November 2011
10:15 GMT |
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Computing has become an intrinsic part of society, and there aren't many better way to figure out just how deeply IT is affecting the world than by looking at just how much money will be spent on it in the coming years. Next year, the world will invest a whole lot of money in the sustainment, enhancement and a... |
18 October 2011
04:11 GMT |
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Graphene is one of the materials expected to revolutionize technology as a whole, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer figured he may as well make a hefty investment into the research efforts.
No matter how good an idea, it just never gets to the point where it can help society advance if there is no money backing... |
7 October 2011
10:50 GMT |
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A new report from The Pew Charitable Trusts documents how the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is accelerating clean energy innovations in order to reduce risks to America's military, enhance energy security and save money.The report finds that DoD clean energy investments increased 300 percent between 2006 and ... |
5 October 2011
04:40 GMT |
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Intel makes investments more or less often, and the latest one involved a certain sum of money passing into the hands of health care company CareCloud.
When we spoke of the big plans that AMD had for the cloud in China, we mentioned the efficiency, centralization and management benefits that cloud could bring to ... |
1 October 2011
05:23 GMT |
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Samsung decided to extend its resource pool, so it took some money and handed it over to Novaled, who got a new shareholder in exchange for it.
Samsung may have given up its stake in the hard disk drive market to Seagate, but this only means it can focus better on other areas.
The field of smartphones and othe... |
28 September 2011
10:17 GMT |
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Lenovo and Compal decided it would be useful to combine their resources, so they started to enact a plan meant to bring a new PC manufacturing facility into existence.
Intel, IBM, TSMC, Samsung and Globalfoundries probably stole the limelight, as far as investments go, with how they granted a $4.4 billion investm... |
28 September 2011
03:28 GMT |
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Intel tends to make the news often, for a variety of reason, especially during special events like IDF, and the company is getting attention, this once, for something other than a product announcement.
Intel made a lot of investments over the years, and this is bound to continue for as long as the company still e... |
20 September 2011
07:28 GMT |
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If anyone was wondering just what step Intel would next take in its goal to broaden its reach, the company, or at least a subdivision, has just made quite a few investments in a variety of areas.
Intel is a world-class, giant corporation, and this means, among other things, that it has many subdivisions, each foc... |
10 September 2011
05:59 GMT |
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Dropbox is said to be forced to live with only a $4 billion valuation, while previous figures were between $5 billion and as much as $10 billion. Apparently, Dropbox only wanted the money from particular investors, so it had to drop the valuation to secure their participation.
Regardless, it's a huge bump ove... |
31 August 2011
08:07 GMT |
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For Intel to invest in some project or another is not a rare occurrence and it appears that the latest project to get funds is one of its own, the Ultrabook initiative in fact.Intel came up with the Ultrabook idea a while ago and, though prices were assumed to be around the $1,000 mark, later reports revealed that j... |
11 August 2011
03:22 GMT |
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While working on its new CPUs and marketing existing ones, Intel seems to be enjoying something of a respite, one that it, apparently, decided to fill with new research projects and investments.There are many things that large companies like Intel occupy themselves with, and this extends to more than just making the... |
4 August 2011
07:52 GMT |
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Bold decision or not, it has been found that South Korea decided it was time to move elementary-level education onto digitized platforms, relying on the newly formed tablet segment as the basis.Given the rate at which physical books have been losing ground, marketing-wise, to e-books, one could say it was only a mat... |
4 July 2011
08:21 GMT |
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Go Daddy, the domain registrar and web hosting company, has announced that it is entering a partnership with several private equity companies which will now own a stake in the company. Contrary to some initial reports, Go Daddy was not acquired, Bob Parsons, CEO and founder, will retain a stake in the company.
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4 July 2011
05:52 GMT |
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While NVIDIA is investing in makers of chip verification software, Advanced Micro Devices isn't slacking off, having also entered a deal with ViVu, a designer of videoconferencing technologies.The IT industry is filled with various low-profile and upstart companies that, although not known very well, often turn... |
13 June 2011
04:56 GMT |
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It appears that NVIDIA is not missing any chances when it comes to enhancing the use of its graphics processing units, having now chosen to invest in a software maker that develops tools for chip verification.One could say that NVIDIA is more or less disadvantaged on the PC component market right now because it has ... |
13 June 2011
03:19 GMT |
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Intel Capital is the global investment organization of Intel and it seems like it chose the latest project, or in this case sets of projects, to fund, in order to promote the image it would like to see outpictured by the computing market.Intel might be best known for its large collection of central processing units,... |
24 May 2011
04:49 GMT |
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Seeking to put an end to this age where all electronics rely on highly-specialized chips that get outaded fast, Tabula came up with chips that, like FPGAs, are customizable but much cheaper, faster and smaller, and it looks like it scored an investment to help it promote its invention.Consumers will have probably no... |
19 April 2011
05:44 GMT |
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One may remember Kno and its dual-tablet project for education, but it looks like the outfit is going through a business outlet change, aided by Intel, which plans to invest in its operations.
Kno did, at one point, try to promote a dual-screen tablet for the educational sector, but it seems to have failed in its... |
9 April 2011
05:01 GMT |
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There are many things that a company's profits can be used for, and it seems that ASUS chose one that might, eventually, bring in even greater revenue, namely an investment into a new operational headquarters.The disaster in Japan may have struck the IT industry where it hurts, but not all companies are as affe... |
21 March 2011
09:06 GMT |
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Hard drives are growing increasingly threatened by SSDs, though at a slow pace, and makers of such units will have to come up with ways of keeping this storage technology appealing, hence Western Digital's new research and development center.As end-users know, Western Digital is one of the major worldwide suppl... |
25 February 2011
10:44 GMT |
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Intel may have hit a fairly nasty snag recently, what with all the chipset issues, but it is definitely not daunted by any of it, at least not enough to prevent it from going ahead with all its other plans, like building a new factory.
End-users keeping track of everything happening on the IT market will obviousl... |
19 February 2011
05:14 GMT |
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The hot internet companies of the moment, admittedly there aren't that many of them, are raising money left and right while their valuation rises. Facebook and Groupon have raised huge chunks, Twitter is valued at close to $10 billion so it's no wonder that the other hot startup, Zynga is raising some money... |
18 February 2011
09:39 GMT |
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Facebook is apparently gearing up for even more financial gymnastics. There's been plenty of coverage of the Goldman Sachs deal, in which the bank but also some of its clients invested in the social network. Now it looks like the company wants to make some employees quite happy by enabling them to sell some of t... |
11 February 2011
11:49 GMT |
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Investments are a common occurrence in the IT industry, as they are on every other industry out there, and it seems that one of the newest such moves will have Kingston and JMicron as players.That Kingston was planning on acquiring a stake in semiconductor manufacturer JMicron is not exactly a new rumor, as the inte... |
11 February 2011
03:47 GMT |
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It's no longer a secret to anyone that the American space agency is operating under very limited funding. This couldn't have come at a worst time, and this is reflected by the fact that agency officials are turning to the general public for advice on how to spend its money.
This is a time of innovation ... |
29 January 2011
14:01 GMT |
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It seems that a consortium of Russian investors have taken an interest in the troubles of a certain company that had, at one time, earned quite a bit of attention for its plastic semiconductors.Plastic Logic is one of those companies that fell on hard times because of marketing and industrial conditions even though ... |
18 January 2011
06:52 GMT |
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Groupon has confirmed its latest round of funding and to say it's huge is an understatement. About the time Facebook is turning heads raising $500 million, Groupon comes with a $950 million round, albeit at a reportedly significantly smaller valuation of $4.75 billion. Right after rejecting Google's rumored... |
11 January 2011
04:24 GMT |
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SoundCloud, the online music and audio sharing and hosting platform, is finally confirming what has been rumored for months, the Berlin-based company raised funding from the US venture firm Union Square Ventures and Geneva's Index Ventures. The round actually closed a few months back, as was initially rumored, b... |
8 January 2011
10:22 GMT |
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Twitter has just closed a huge new round of funding, reportedly bringing in $200 million at a $3.7 billion valuation. The funding should come in handy as the company is expanding more into revenue generation. The round is lead by Kleiner Perkins with other venture capital firms contributing. Twitter is also adding tw... |
16 December 2010
04:40 GMT |
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It appears that HP's new Chief Executive Officer has adopted an arguably aggressive approach when it comes to investments, the company being supposedly bent on acquiring new software.As end-users may or may not know, HP is practically the world's greatest supplier of personal computers.It also managed to s... |
23 November 2010
05:51 GMT |
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Tumblr, one of the hottest blogging platform around, has been getting some positive buzz this year. Traffic is surging and rumors say that it just closed a new round of funding netting it $20 million to $30 million at a valuation of $130 million to $140 million or more, depending on the source.There is some volatilit... |
20 November 2010
06:34 GMT |
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Since Intel is ever so eager to expand above and beyond its current 'limitations' in term of revenue sources and technological support, its global investment arm, Intel Capital, decided to invest in more than a few ventures at once.What Intel Capital did was compile a list of companies from 11 countries, c... |
17 November 2010
07:48 GMT |
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Daniel Radcliffe, star of the “Harry Potter” film franchise, is preparing to move to New York to star in a Broadway play. To make himself more at home here, he’s also invested a lot of money in his bachelor pad. The actor reportedly bought the apartment in West Village about a year ago for an estima... |
14 October 2010
16:41 GMT |
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According to Research!America's latest annual estimate, the United States invested $139 billion last year in health research, accounting for all public and private sources.This might seem like a lot of money but the amount is actually only 5.6% of the $2.47 trillion overall US health expenses in 2009 (you could ... |
8 October 2010
03:49 GMT |
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Quite famous maker of solid state drive controllers, SandForce, has just announced that it has secured the means by which it will develop next-generation products, namely investments of $25 million that will also be used to expand customer and partner support infrastructure. As some may know, many of the high-end so... |
15 September 2010
03:16 GMT |
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Two companies that created a communication handset and a computer game that use space technology, are the first to receive funds from ESA's Open Sky Technologies Fund.One of them is a German company that created the TakWak GmbH, a three-in-one communication device that includes a mobile phone, satellite navigati... |
23 August 2010
10:24 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is reportedly planning a great investment in the development of its mobile operating system. The company has just unveiled a new version of its mobile platform, namely Windows Phone 7 OS, and announced that the first handsets powered by it would arrive on the market before the ... |
3 March 2010
05:29 GMT |
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At a speech held at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., the Intel President and CEO, Paul Otellini, announced that the Invest in America Alliance would be investing $3.5 billion in US-based technology companies over the next two years. These investments are meant to support US growth-oriented industries and... |
24 February 2010
04:23 GMT |
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The real-time web is still going strong and buried under all of the hype there actually is a legitimate concept and a real need and usefulness. Twitter is pretty much the poster child of the real-time web but its greatest strength, its simplicity, is also its greatest weakness and there have been those who have tried... |
19 October 2009
10:56 GMT |
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The Internet has affected a lot of services and businesses but for the most part financial services have remained unchanged. Sure, many have expanded to the web and make very nice sums of money from it but their business model is the same it has been for decades in some cases. One sector that has seen almost no impac... |
19 October 2009
07:03 GMT |
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An advisory panel formed by representatives from PricewaterhouseCoopers (financial consultancy), Kemp Little (legal consultancy for tech companies) and British newspaper The Guardian has comprised a list of the top 100 best investment opportunities in the British tech media sector. The list is dominated by online com... |
8 September 2009
04:30 GMT |
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