San Francisco-based blueEnergy provides sustainable energy services to isolated communities in Nicaragua. Mathias Craig, executive director and chairman of the board of the nonprofit corporation, was on-hand last year to receive the prestigious Accenture Economic Development Award at the Tech Museum Awards, presented by Aplied Materials. He spoke ...

Broadband access for the developing world was a key topic at the Third Global Knowledge Conference, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in December 2007. Attendees there called for action items to to bring underdeveloped nations - including populations sometimes referred to as “the next billion” - into the connected ...

In many countries in the developing world, cooking is a role assigned to women who tend open fires, sometimes inside their homes. In Guatemala, the respiratory illnesses, eye infections and severe burns that come from this reality seemed eminently avoidable to Donald O’Neal. With the intent of finding a ...

San Jose, Calif- Nora McDevitt sat down with the 2007 Accenture Economic Development Laureate for the Tech Museum Awards, Anil Chitraker from Nepal. Anil Chitraker is with the Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness which harnessed Nepal’s 300 annual days of sun into a safer light source ...

More questions are asked of the Office 2.0 vendor panel of Vishal Saxena (development manager, Oracle), Matt Quinn (vice president, product strategy, TIBCO Software), Bert Armijo (VP product management 3Tera) and Brett Adam (VP Engineering, rPath). Steve Guengerich (chief learning officer, BSG Alliance Corporation) ...

Kallol Borah is the founder and CEO of Aumega Networks, a software infrastructure company with a presence in India, UK and Japan. Aumega Networks licenses software development kits for software-as-a-service computing (SaaS) — especially peer-to-peer software services.

The company’s technology enables implementation of application services that are network and ...

Here’s a follow-up to my story on Symantec Corp.’s problems in China. It looks at how the U.S. IT industry is handing over sensitive technologies to the oppressive Chinese regime in return for access to the Chinese market. It also looks at China’s growing economic espionage program targeting U.S. corporate ...

Aashish Kalra of Trikona Capital is a key player in the development and investment of infrastructure and real estate in India. Trikona Capital is one of the few key players in building new roads, townships, hospitals and other infrastructure-related projects in India. For instance they are one of ...

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The amount of funding received by tech start-ups in India appears to be shrinking if we go by some recent investments. Moveo Systems recently received a new round of angel funding from undisclosed investors. Ziva software, a mobile search company, received about $1.5 million from Nadathur ...

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett says Silicon Valley IT companies are in the right place at the right time to help the United Nations address the world’s health, education, and economic problems. Barrett, who has been appointed the chairman of the U.N.’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development, says, “My job is to make sure that we don’t talk a lot, but we do a lot.” The Alliance will meet today at the the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to discuss the role of Silicon Valley in the U.N.’s information technology goals. PodTech’s Jason Lopez interviewed Intel’s chairman at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara. Intel made this video possible.

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The United Nations is embarking on something new: a partnership with the private sector to address some of the developing world’s most vexing issues in areas such as education, health care, economic development and government. Craig Barret, the chairman of Intel, has been appointed to chair the UN initiative called the Global Alliance for ICT and Development. GAID meets with Silicon Valley leaders for the first time at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., for a series of panels and discussions about the ways IT solutions can help the U.N.’s efforts. PodTech’s Jason Lopez spoke with Sarbuland Khan, executive coordinator for GAID.

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What would you store if you could afford one terabyte — that’s 1,000 gigabytes — of hard disk space? In this podcast, Doug Pickford, director of product and market strategy for enterprise products with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, talks with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau about Hitachi GST’s industry milestone, the ...

Intel will host a meeting between representatives of the the United Nations and business leaders in Silicon Valley to discuss ways of solving global problems such as access to health care, education and economic development. Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel, is also serving as the chairman of the UN ...

vSpring’s Dennis Wood speaks with ContentWatch President and CEO Jack Sunderlage, about his participation in some of Utah’s most important economic development initiatives, including the Utah Technology Council, the Utah Partnership for Education, The World Trade Center Utah, and Utah Science Technology and Research ...

Utah venture capital and angel investment success is not limited to the Salt Lake Valley. Focusing on matching up investors and early-stage entrepreneurs, Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum chairman Steve Grizzell discusses UVEF’s origins and successes. A 20-year veteran in entrepreneurship, finance, innovation and economic development, Grizzell observes while ...

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Intel announced that it will begin making 45 nanometer chips, code-named Penryn, in the second half of the year. The new microprocessors are the culmination of years of R&D using new materials to improve the efficiency and performance of silicon-based semiconductors.

The company says ...

Another round of big investment was announced this week, but this time it was not an IT company. REVA, India’s first electric car received $20 million in investment. Draper Fisher Jurveston and Global Environment Fund led this round of funding.

CISCO’s CEO John Chambers took a two-day whistle stop ...

The venture investment scene in India appears to show no signs of slowing down. In the past few days, a number of investment deals were inked and signed.

Leading the pack is Travel Guru, a travel portal, received $15 million from Sequoia Capital and Battery Ventures. Next in the ...

A professional-turned-entrepreneur, Deep Kalra promoted India’s most successful online travel company, MakeMyTrip in April 2000. [tag]MMT[tag] is a comprehensive travel services provider for leisure travel to, from and within India.

Over the past 5 years, MMT has grown rapidly to become the market leader for U.S.-India travel. MMT’s domestic launch ...

VC investments show no signs of slowing down in India. Two companies - Carzonrent India and Tejas Networks received funding in the past week.

It’s just not IT and services companies that are in investor’s radar - hospitality and travel sector in India have also received a fair chunk ...

Social networking sites are popping up everywhere, and India is no exception. MingleBox is a Bangalore-based startup that allows members to have personalized web pages that includes their interests, blogs and photos. We have an exclusive interview with Kavita ...

Our top story is from Mumbai where Web18 Software Services Ltd, which is part of the TV18 Group in India received $10 million in funding from Tracer Capital. We have an exclusive interview with Surya Mantha, who recently joined Web18 as its new CEO.

Mobile value-added services company OnMobile is reported to have raised $35 million in a new round of funding. According to The Economic Times “OnMobile Systems seems to have closed a fresh round of funding - around $35m - from a group of investors, including Goldman Sachs.”