News: Business & Finance

• Windows 7 sparked surge in business demand for PCs
  Sumner Lemon
  Nov 20 2009

  A senior Dell executive is bullish about a recovery in PC demand from businesses, saying the Oct. 22 release of Windows 7 sparked a surge in PC sales for the company. This surge in PC sales led by ...

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• Seesmic jumps on Twitter’s new location feature with map previews
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 19 2009

  Seesmic, the Twitter client that was the first to incorporate lists, has now jumped on the social network’s new location-tagged tweets. You can roll over tweets that have a special marker to ...

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• Fluidigm raises another $7.5M for stem-cell analysis chips
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 19 2009

  Fluidigm, which makes chips that for genetics lab, has raised $7.5 million in new equity, according to VentureWire. That’s part of a new $18.5 million round that the South San Francisco, ...

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• Politics and policy needed for the smart grid. Soon.
  Tom Slater
  Nov 19 2009

  At GreenBeat 2009’s Politics and Policy session, the prevalent theme was the need for a simple, efficient legislation and regulation package for the U.S. power system. Robert Gee of Gee ...

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• GreenBeat: Cisco has a blank check for Smart Grid, but what will it do with it?
  Camille Ricketts
  Nov 19 2009

  Cisco Systems put no limit on its budget for Smart Grid development,  the company’s grid guru Laura Ipsen told the audience at GreenBeat 2009 — albeit quoting her boss John Chambers. The ...

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• Business intelligence company Manthan Systems raises second round
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 19 2009

  Manthan Systems, which provides business intelligence and analytics software to retailers, has a raised a second funding round of “up to” $15 million. The round was led by Fidelity ...

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• MyFit raises $1M to help parents with college applications
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 19 2009

  MyFit, a new services that helps parents figure out how to get their children into the college of their choice, has raised $1 million in a first round of funding, led by New Enterprise Associates. ...

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• FAA glitch shines spotlight on troubled telco project
  Jaikumar Vijayan
  Nov 19 2009

  The outage of a computer system used by airline pilots to file flight plans in the U.S will likely prompt a closer look at a $2.4 billion telecommunications system that has grappled with numerous ...

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• GreenBeat: Steve Westly spreads the Smart Grid gospel, says innovation should fly fast and loose
  Tom Slater
  Nov 19 2009

  Steve Westly, former California state controller and now founder of the venture firm Westly Group, says he got interested in the Smart Grid and cleantech in order to save the world and make massive ...

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• Wall Street Beat: After yearly high, doubts remain for tech
  Marc Ferranti
  Nov 19 2009

  In a tumultuous week on the market, the attention of IT investors was captured by a mixed bag of acquisition activity and earnings news from the hardware and chip arena -- a sector that is supposed ...

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