News tagged with capitalization

Facebook deflates any thought of new tech bubble

The horrendous stock market debut for Facebook suggests investors are not ready to jump in and create another tech bubble despite big expectations for social media, analysts say.

Technology / Business

created May 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

California leads green tech funding, reduces greenhouse emissions

California has had remarkable success in developing and deploying clean technology, using it to help fuel the state's economic rebound and drive its effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions, even as its population continues ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 7

Facebook windfall to help California fill budget hole

Facebook's initial public offering will make lots of its staff in California rich -- and should therefore help the perennially cash-strapped state fill a whopping $16 billion budget hole.

Technology / Business

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dropbox co-founder aims to build his own Google, not sell to them

Four years ago, Drew Houston was just another super-smart hacker with ambitions of starting his own company.

Technology / Business

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Virdia gets $100 million to start cellulose ethanol plant

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite calls for finding alternatives to using corn to make biofuel, the United States currently has no such commercial biomass-to-sugar processing plants able to do so. That may soon change ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Apple shares soar, edges ExxonMobil in market cap

Apple shares soared on Wednesday following blockbuster quarterly earnings and the California gadget-maker leapfrogged over ExxonMobil to become the largest US company in terms of market value.

Technology / Business

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Apple market value hits $600B

(AP) -- Apple, already the world's most valuable company, hit the $600 billion level for the first time Tuesday.

Technology / Business

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (5) | comments 3

New startup believes it has a way to cheaply convert methane to ethylene

(PhysOrg.com) -- When people think of uses for petroleum, they generally think of oil and gasoline, but doing so means ignoring the production of ethylene, a compound used to make many of the products most ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

LED startup Switch Lighting hopes to light the way in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is known for computer chips, software companies and social networks - but not light bulbs.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Calif. stands to reap windfall from Facebook IPO

What's good for Facebook and its employees could be very good for California's treasury.

Technology / Business

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Apple passes Exxon as most valuable US company

(AP) -- Apple has surpassed Exxon Mobil as the most valuable company in the U.S.

Technology / Business

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Startup tries to put sociability back into movies

Streaming movies might not yet have the equivalent of a theater experience, with roaring crowds crunching on popcorn, but they are getting more social.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Aug 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Warner to sell entire company, near agreement

Warner Music Group Corp. is seeking to sell the entire company, rather than parts of the business, and could agree on a buyer within weeks, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Technology / Business

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Microsoft's answer to the iPad is still in pieces

(AP) -- Instead of unveiling an elegant response to the iPad, Microsoft came to the tech industry's premier gadget show with a collection of exposed computer guts, news about microchips and a shallow preview ...

Technology / Business

created Jan 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Effective knowledge transfer and creation promote internationalisation in SMEs

In small and medium-sized companies, investments in knowledge transfer and creation promote internalisation. Knowledge is transferred both through internal and external transfer, i.e. between the various actors within the ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0