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Harry Fuller is a media veteran, having spent decades in TV news in the San Francisco Bay Area. As GeneralManager of KPIX-TV CBS he founded one of the nation's first TV station websites in early 1995. He was News Direcor at TechTV when it was founded in 1998. ...- more about Harry Fuller »
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- Ten greentech trends for 2010
- Cleantech predicts more investment in greentech and nine other trends to watch in 2010. by Harry Fuller
- Tags: Clean Technology, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-11-30
- Cleantech draws more investments in Q3
- Investment globally were again for the cleantech sector, markking further rebound from the beginning of this year which began glumly. Cleantech Group says total Q3 investments were nearly $1.6 billion. Overall investments in cleantech were up 10% from Q2 but still lagging compared to Q3 in 2008, just...
- Tags: Investment, Clean Technology, Cleantech Group, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Hey, baby, have I got a deal for you
- Cayman Islands tax protection. An office in Houston, Texas. Run by a veteran of the Enron successes. Sound like a Hollywood plot? Nope, just a verrrrry rich IPO for the old energy crowd. Nearlya billion dollars expected to be captured. It's the IPO of AEI, Ashmore...
- Tags: Natural Gas, AEI, IPO, Taxes, Financial Planning, Free Trade, Investment, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- A bit more money for the greentech ventures
- CALPERS (California Public Employees’ Retirement System) just announced it will put $60 million into Khosla Ventures' greentech fund. Khosla's fund already has about 70 investments in the green tech sector and has raised over a quarter billion dollars. Past investments by Khosla have ranged from biofuel to solar to...
- Tags: CalPERS, Khosla, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-15
- IBM: re-training for our future
- IBM and railroads. This is not a non sequitor. I recently spoke with Keith Dierkx who works for IBM in their expanding business providing services for planning, construction and operation of high-speed rail. Dierkx is in the process of relocating to Beijing where he and IBM will...
- Tags: China, Beijing, Rail, IBM Corp., Dierkx, Government, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- Deja vu all over again
- We have definitely been here before. What comes around.... But is it going to be different his time? Ehrlich's POPULATION BOMB. Schumacher's SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL. Guess that's why I got this sinking feeling when I wrote about shrinking cities. Shrinking, sinking, deja...
- Tags: Ehrlich, Schumacher, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-13
- Global warming will force dictionary re-write
- For most of my life "Glacial adjective" has been synonymous with "slow" and "gradual." Get me re-write, it's starting to mean "sudden," and "gone forever." The new poster child for global warming is what was once the world's highest altitude ski spot: the Chacaltaya glacier, at...
- Tags: Glacier, Global Warming, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Energy Secretary Chu on saving our future
- Here's a video interview with Dr. Steven Chu, U.S. Energy Secretary. He speaks optimistically about Americans' ability to save energy through weatherization and public transit. He sees real-time power pricing as a way to make solar economically feasible. And he promotes further investment in developing...
- Tags: Secretary, Energy, Pricing, Corporate Communications, Marketing Research, Investment, Marketing, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Greentech investments continue, but declining
- A survey found considerable greentech investments around the world for Q1, 2009--the same Q1 that had stock markets dyspepsic, investors shy, and governments throwing money at every shadow that moved. The Cleantech GroupT, along with Deloitte, have just released preliminary 1Q09 results for clean technology venture...
- Tags: Investment, Clean Technology, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-01
- White House becoming Green House?
- The First Lady is breaking ground on a major new White House project: a kitchen garden. The produce will go to the White House kitchen. A nearby elementary school class will also help with the labor, like planting and weed-pulling. On a recent "Sixty Minutes"...
- Tags: Kitchen, White House, First Lady, Food & Beverage, Corporate Communications, Investment, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Marketing, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Extreme capitalism. Consumption supreme. Is it over?
- I am starting to see some awareness among the chattering classes that continued population growth, endless economic growth and unhampered resource consumption may not go on forever. We have have just lived through three decades when it is considered less than acceptable for any major corporationto grow at only...
- Tags: Wealth, Friedman, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-08
- High speed rail: derision or da future?
- It was fascinating to hear Louisiana's Governor last night deride high speed rail. "A train from Disneyland to Las Vegas." Does he think high speed rail to major tourist destinations is a bad idea? Or does he simply want to wait until private capital builds the lines? Fat...
- Tags: China, Train, Speed, Governor, Louisiana, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- 2008 lousy year for VC investments. 2009 may not improve.
- Nationally the VC funding was off 8% from 2007, reversing a four-year trend of growth. That's the conclusion of one national investment survey. One analyst of VC funding said he expects 2009 to see continued support of existing ventures, but a very tough atmosphere for any new ventures...
- Tags: Financial, VC, Government, Investment, Vertical Industries, Financial Accounting, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-01
- Dashboard warning lights aglow: Detroit low on fuel and oil pressure
- The odds of the Detroit Shrinking Three automakers getting any kind of federal loan help this year are getting slimmer. Now comes word that even the robust popularity of a sitting President I jest can sway members of his own party to get the proposed auto loans through the...
- Tags: Detroit, Dashboard, General Motors Corp., Financing Startups, Workforce Management, Financial Services, Investment, Finance, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Follow the money
- We've all seen trillions of dollars of alleged assets disappear in recent weeks. A few big-time financial firms as well. This is having reverberations across the greentech energy sector. Here's a story on a wind-power project in Michigan that is now waiting for another gust of capital....
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-01
- Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?
- Is the recession the ultimate way to fight global warming? That's the suggestrion from one market commentator. Less spending=less greenhouse gas, he says. The outlook from international finance organizations is decidely gloomy. It follows that if spending's down, industrial output from China and elsewhere will...
- Tags: Capitalist, Stock, Global Warming, Fossil Fuel, Oil-rich Russia, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Cheap oil signal end of greentech bubble?
- Oil futures are dropping to depths not seen for months. Even Hurricane Ike was not able to hike up the oil futures. That devastating hurricane was trumped by the downward spin of the world's stock markets and a slew of other unencouraging economic stats. So...
- Tags: Private Equity, Stock, Stock Market, Investment, IPO, Finance, Financial Services, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- When will cleantech be profitable? How about Q2, 2008!
- The world's first solar power billionaire is on a role. Not in Silicon Valley or Spain or even solar-blessed Arizona. In China. The global gold medal winner in solar profits: Shi Zhengrong, head of Suntech Power. They make photovoltaics sold the world over. Free...
- Tags: China, Spain, Stock, Photovoltaics, Clean Technology, Suntech Power, Zhengrong, Manufacturing, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Car crash on Wall Street: many injuries and heavy losses
- Not since the financial industry did a header off the high board into a mortgage pool filled with bad paper. It's been literally weeks since an American-based business sector looked this sick. I've been trying to keep up with the bloody saga of the Detroit auto makers and...
- Tags: Car, Stock, Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., Wall, Sales Strategy, Mortgages, Sales Force Management, Construction, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Sales, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?
- Today oil analysts told American political leaders that regulating oil speculation could easily cut half the price of crude oil, within thirty days. Wow! They even speculated that gasoline could drop back to $2 per gallon. Forget those hybrid cars and plug-in electrics, Martha, get me that...
- Tags: Green Technology, Investment, Analyst, Plug-in, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
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