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- Hara offers environmental monitoring application in online format
- Can't find the money to invest in an on-premise enterprise application for managing your company's carbon portfolio? Hara, a start-up funded by veneral venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has introduced its first product, Hara Environmental and Energy Management. The application is focused on the...
- Tags: Monitoring, Venture Capital, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financing Startups, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Churchill Club podcast: VC trends and strategies for 2009
- In this edition of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of experts talk changing company valuations, and threats such as corporate bankruptcies and limited partners reneging on their investment commitments. Here's the outlook for the year ahead. Panelists include: Jay Hoag, Co-founder, Technology Crossover...
- Tags: Strategy, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- Will cheap oil affect green innovation? [video]
- At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative fuels to protect biofuel innovators from the cyclical nature of the oil market and to make it easier to...
- Tags: Innovation, Biofuel, Oil, Video, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Microsoft in talks to acquire Israeli VR startup
- Microsoft is reportedly negotiating to acquire Israeli startup 3DV Systems for about $35 million, according to Haaretz, Israel's oldest daily newspaper. 3DV Systems is known for developing "virtual reality" imaging technology for digital cameras that it sells, called ZCams (formerly called Z-Sense), and...
- Tags: Imaging, Microsoft Corp., 3DV Systems, ZCam, Games, Document Management, Venture Capital, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Financing Startups, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Bill Joy's green investing ideas [video]
- At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, explains how his company came up with 26 "grand challenge areas"--areas where the company, along with Al Gore and his staff, can make the biggest impact on...
- Tags: Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-13
- Will cheap oil affect green innovation?
- At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative fuels to protect biofuel innovators from the cyclical nature of the oil market and to make it easier to...
- Tags: Biofuel, Government, Green Enterprise, Bill Joy, Churchill Club, alternative fuel, gas, oil, innovation
- Videos 2009-02-12
- Bill Joy's green investing ideas
- At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, explains how his company came up with 26 "grand challenge areas"--areas where the company, along with Al Gore and his staff, can make the biggest impact on...
- Tags: Bill Joy, green, environment, Churchill Club, Al Gore, energy, venture capital
- Videos 2009-02-12
- Google analyst sees falling revenue and board conflict
- Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry predicts Google's revenue will fall in the next two years and the company is about to hit its adolescent stage with board conflicts and layoffs. In a research note, Chowdhry lays out the case. The gist: The economy is putting pressure...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Board, Trip Chowdhry, Contacts, VC, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- RPX: Can it defend against patent trolls?
- A startup on Tuesday will launch in an attempt to fix the current patent mess and defend against so-called patent trolls. The startup--RPX Corp.--is a so-called defensive patent aggregator. RPX--short for Rational Patent--aims to reduce the costs associated with non-practicing entities NPEs. These NPEs--known as patent trolls...
- Tags: Patent, Patent Troll, RPX Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Smart grid tech player Silver Spring receives a cool $75M
- Despite the ongoing financial meltdown, people still are throwing money around for greentech/cleantech companies. For now, at least. Silver Spring Networks, which develops Smart Grid technology, said it has received an additional $75 million in funding intended for global expansion. The investment round was led by Kleiner...
- Tags: Financial, Venture Capital, Financial Accounting, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Financing Startups, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- NYT profiles iFund's Matt Murphy
- The New York Times has posted an interesting profile on Matt Murphy, the venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers that oversees the iFund. Kleiner established the US$100 million iFund to invest in start-ups specializing in iPhone applications. So far this year, Mr. Murphy and...
- Tags: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Monitors & Displays, Venture Capital, Hardware, Components, Finance, Financing Startups, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Friendster gets new CEO, $20 million in funding and a focus on Asia
- Friendster was one of the early social networks, but wound up being surpassed by MySpace and Facebook in the U.S. The fix: Keep its lead in Asia, land $20 million in new funding and hire a new CEO. On Tuesday, Friendster said it named Richard Kimber as...
- Tags: Friendster Inc., Asia, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Fortify aims for the security suite spot; Moves upstream
- Fortify Software, which heads off insecure software code in the development, said Monday that it has launched a suite designed to head off vulnerabilities in automated and older applications. The suite, dubbed Fortify 360, expands the company's market. Previously, Fortify was mostly focused on checking code for...
- Tags: Software, Suite, Vulnerability, Fortify 360, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Reporter's Notebook: Apple's iPhone SDK rollout
- Cupertino â€" After the announcement of iPhone support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync services, and after the testimony by software developers â€" most of whom had never used a Macintosh or an iPhone â€" about the ease of coding with the new iPhone SDK, and after Apple...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Notebook, SDK, Apple Inc., Reporter, Games, Personal Technology, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- The Semantic Web - is everyone confused?
- The Economist. Tim O'Reilly. Nova Spivack. Danny Ayers. Read/Write Web's Alex Iskold. Kingsley Idehen. Brad Feld. Over the last few days all of them have been amongst those writing to clarify their understanding of the Semantic Web and where it's going. Each piece is thoughtful, each piece...
- Tags: Web, Technology, Language, Danny Ayers, Read/Write Web, Tim, SWEO, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, RDF, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Reinventing the 50-year-old water heater
- At the 4th Annual Energy Tech Investor Forum in San Jose, Calif., panel moderator Ellen Pao of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, leads a discussion with executives on emerging technologies that could make household systems--such as water heaters--more energy efficient. The panelists are: Martha Krebs, deputy director of R&D with...
- Tags: Vice President, Research & Development, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Green
- Videos 2007-10-05
- Churchill Club: 9th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends
- The Churchill Club held its "9th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends Debate" at the San Jose Fairmont last week. Four of the the top venture investors gave their predictions gave their predictions on the top tech trends emerging over the next few years. The event was moderated by Tony Perkins,...
- Tags: Steve Jurvetson, Memory, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Semiconductors, Marketing, Networking, Hardware, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Tom Perkins: HP did not want independent directors
- Former HP director warns of governance without expertiseThomas Perkins, co-founder and director emeritus of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, speaks at the Venture One Outlook conference in San Francisco about why current corporate boards can easily fail. He discusses the meltdown at Enron and the fallacy of building what he...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Videos 2007-02-28
- Tech Policy Summit: Solving the energy problem
- Floyd Kvamme kicked off the Tech Policy Summit, which is advertised as a non-partisan conference attended by tech industry insiders, investors, policymakers, non-profit leaders, regulators and legal experts to "examine critical policy issues affecting technology innovation and adoption in Silicon Valley and beyond."Floyd Kvamme, partner emeritus at Kleiner Perkins...
- Tags: Green Tech, General
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- RSA 2007: Colin Powell--soldier, diplomat, VC and stand-up comic
- The closing keynote at RSA 2007 featured Colin Powell, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and first-term George W. Bush administration Secretary of State. Following his public service career, Powell has been on the lecture circuit, ranking in the big bucks and also playing venture capitalist as...
- Tags: Colin Powell, General, Security
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
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