and Jim Carlton
The blogosphere is abuzz over the disclosure by startup Bloom Energy that it has come up with a fuel cell technology that can replace conventional energy sources.
BusinessWeek reports that AOL has hired 500 journalists and is using traffic tools to determine which news stories to report, and how much traffic its news stories generate.
Open Angel Forum San Francisco is looking for applications from startups seeking investments from angels. It was co-founded by Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo, in response to angel networks that were charging high fees to startups.
ALMT Legal and Desai & Diwanji topped the Venture Intelligence League Tables as the Most Active Legal Advisors for Private Equity and M&A deals respectively in 2009. Ernst & Young topped the League Tables as the Most Active Transaction Advisor (PE and M&A combined) for the year.For PE deals, Ernst & Young was tied with boutique investment banks MAPE and o3 Capital for the first position (with 5
I popped down to San Francisco’s City Hall where Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, and owner of the BMW Oracle Racing sailing team, received keys to the city as part of celebrations that welcomed back the America’s Cup to the US.
The New York Times Co. executives who took the stage at a recent media-industry event werent always on the same page when discussing plans for the metered-pay system the paper is developing for its Web site.
Forbes India has an article on how the plans of Ajay Singh-, BVR Subbu- and Ashish Deora-founded Argentum, which had acquired the bankrupt Daewoo Motor’s plant in Haryana to produce auto components for MNC auto makers, have fallen apart and is now essentially a Real Estate play….as things stand, the partnership is in tatters and Subbu and Singh are negotiating an exit strategy for the former
Here’s a couple of tongue-in cheek posts about how few women there are in Silicon Valley. (Hat tip Jeremiah Owyang)
Cisco Systems on Thursday said it was dropping H-P from its reseller program, capping off a year in which the two tech giants have increasingly encroached on one anothers turf.