Social gaming company 6waves Lolapps (which is now going by the shortened moniker “6L”) is continuing its stated quest to take on industry leader Zynga. The company is announcing Wednesday the… Read more »
Piazza, the social network that lets college students and instructors discuss material online, has closed on $6 million in a new Series A funding round. Piazza’s service is meant to counteract… Read more »
1.4 million Pennsylvanians switched their power supplier in 2011 as the state follows Texas into the deregulated power market. Deregulated markets allow power retailers to differentiate their products and segment the… Read more »
Deregulated energy markets, with companies competing with one another for customers, could be great places to test technologies and services to get customers engaged with their utilities. Whether that will lead… Read more »
Happy New Year, everyone — welcome to a new year of efforts to obstruct policy progress on the greentech front. The state of Texas has kicked off 2011 with a fresh… Read more »
I’m wrapping up my visit to Houston for the Texas Electricity Professionals Association’s fall conference, and thought I’d share some more information on the state of electricity competition/deregulation. According to Taff… Read more »
California’s grand experiment with power market deregulation ended with a bang in 2001, when Enron-engineered rolling blackouts. But in Texas, power market deregulation — or competition, as folks down here prefer… Read more »
What’s going on in the world of competitive electricity markets? To find out, I’ve come to Houston, where the Texas Electricity Professionals Association is holding its fall conference. TEPA is a… Read more »
The state-by-state setbacks for utilities’ smart grid dreams have come to Illinois. The Chicago Tribune reports that a court ruling has found the Illinois Commerce Commission was wrong to allow utility… Read more »
A tear-down of the new Apple TV reveals that the device loads a whopping 8 GB of Flash memory. Wait, didn’t Steve Jobs tell us that we won’t download any movies… Read more »