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Clean energy under pressure

Dec 07, 2012 | By: Kidela Capital Group

Wind power has been hailed by many as an important part of how we will derive energy in the future. However, there are drawbacks. Intermittency – or lack of a steady stream of power - is one of them. To address this issue, General Compression has developed a system which...

Filed Under: How We Started, Start-ups Tagged With: clean energy, energy storage, Science, Wind Power

Silicon Valley tech company brings robotics to farming

Dec 06, 2012 | By: Kidela Capital Group

The 21st century is coming to farming. Blue River Technology Inc., based in Sunnyvale, California, is in the process of developing the technology to identify and kill weeds using robotics and computer vision.

Filed Under: How We Started, Start-ups Tagged With: Agriculture, Blue River Technology Inc., farming, Organic Food, Robotics, Tech

Frustration leads to creation of TimeGlider.com

Dec 05, 2012 | By: Kidela Capital Group

The story of TimeGlider, the revolutionary new way of looking at historical events and time.

Filed Under: How We Started, Start-ups Tagged With: history, Michael Richardson, New York Times, Tech, TimeGlider, timelines

CrowdStrike, Inc. takes cybersecurity to the next level

Dec 04, 2012 | By: Kidela Capital Group

Best-selling security author George Kurtz discusses how being the chief technology officer of McAfee inspired him to start the cybersecurity startup CrowdStrike, Inc.

Filed Under: How We Started, Start-ups Tagged With: cybersecurity, George Kurtz, intelligence, Security, Tech

SmartThings gives your surroundings a whole new IQ

Dec 03, 2012 | By: Kidela Capital Group

Control everything you interact with from your smartphone? SmartThings wants to make that happen.

Filed Under: How We Started, Start-ups, Top Stories Tagged With: Instacube, motion sensor, SmartApps, SmartThings, Tech

The ultimate eco-bicycle

Dec 03, 2012 | By: Kidela Capital Group

The Bamboo Bike Studio is a community workshop for bike building, customization and maintenance located in San Francisco and Brooklyn. Based on research from Princeton University, which showed that one of the world’s most prolific renewable resources – bamboo – was perfect...

Filed Under: How We Started, Start-ups Tagged With: bamboo bike, ghana, renewable resource

Jitterbug.tv offers entertainment for kids over digital devices

Nov 30, 2012 | By: Kidela Capital Group

Randall Green, co-founder of Jitterbug.tv, discusses how a cursing muppet inspired the first subscription music & video service for kids.

Filed Under: How We Started, Start-ups Tagged With: Children, digital, Jitterbug.tv, Music, startups, video

Before they were big: Google

Nov 30, 2012 | By: Kidela Capital Group

If you’re reading this online, there’s a good chance that you’re familiar with Google. Google is, arguably, the largest force on the internet and it certainly is one of the largest internet companies on the globe.

Filed Under: Articles, Before They Were BIG, Tech, Tech Articles

The Internet Roadmap — Chapter 16: Near field communication and location-based services

Nov 29, 2012 | By: Kidela Capital Group

Near-field communication and location-based services are examples of the technologies emerging for the e-commerce market.

Filed Under: Columns, Reports, Reports & Research, The Internet Roadmap Tagged With: e-commerce, Internet, Location-based services, Mobile Phones, Near Field Communication, Tech

Robot assistants will help nurses, caregivers

Nov 29, 2012 | By: Kidela Capital Group

Yi-Je Lim, CEO of Hstar Technologies, explains how their health care service and rehabilitation robots can help the increasing number of nurses who suffer back injuries from transporting and lifting patients.

Filed Under: How We Started, Start-ups Tagged With: Health, Hstar Technologies, nursing, rehabilitation, Robotics, Robots, Tech

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