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• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• A Twitter Founder Turns to E-Payments

  
  DealBook — Authority: 761
  Jack Dorsey, who came up with the idea for Twitter and is now its chairman, has unveiled Square, his new start-up.
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• Jack Dorsey on Square, How it Works & Why it Disrupts

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 770
  Square CEO & Co-Founder Jack Dorsey. Photo by Bijan Sabet. In February 2009, Jim McKelvey, who’d left the technology business and became a glass blower, lost an order because he couldn’t accept a credit card from a customer who wanted to buy his creation. He called his friend and Twitter co-founder Jack ...
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• Square Launches Today and Is Valuated At $40 Million

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 444
  Square is a new mobile payment service that was founded by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey. Dorsey is best known for being a co-founder of Twitter too. Before the company started, Square raised $10 million in funding with a $40 million valuation. The lead investor of the $10 million funding round was provided by ...
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• SquareUp iPhone payment service launched by Twitter co-founder

  
  Gear Live — Authority: 599
  New iPhone credit card payment service SquareUp has finally been unveiled, and we’ve gotta say, it’s got our attention. The brainchild of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, SquareUp aims to be a simple, sleek, inexpensive, and charitable credit card payment processing service. It works on the iPhone and iPod ...
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• Square Worth $40 Million Before Launch

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 169
  Earlier today we wrote about Square , the new payment service cofounded by Jim McKelvey and Twitter creator Jack Dorsey . We also interviewed Dorsey and used Square to buy a coffee. We knew Squared had closed a hyper-competitive venture round.
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• Twitter creator Jack Dorsey shows off his new mobile payments startup (via postie)

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Bookmark this categoryTwitter creator Jack Dorsey just launched the site for his up-and-coming mobile payments startup Square.Square’s product lets people process credit card payments through their mobile phone. It’s a small device that attaches to the audio input jack of a phone. You can swipe your card through a ...
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• Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey shows off his new mobile payments startup

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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• Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey shows off his new mobile payments startup

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey just launched the site for his up-and-coming mobile payments startup SquareUp.According to the site, you can read payment cards from any device with an audio input jack. Receipts are sent to your e-mail and mobile phone. You can also use text messages to authorize payments in ...
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• Ten clean technology predictions for 2010

  
  Cleantech Group - Latest clean technology news — Authority: 571
  Continuing an annual tradition, Cleantech Group ExecutiveChairman Nicholas Parker offers ten trends to watch for in 2010.
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• 5 Energy Storage Players That Won Smart Grid Stimulus Funds

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 650
  In an interesting twist involving how the $4 billion in smart grid stimulus funds are being allocated, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu this morning announced that energy storage technology received 16 grants for a total of $185 million from the U.S. federal government. While the list of awards included funding for ...
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• Boku gains momentum with mobile payments for social games

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Mobile payments provider Boku has gained a lot of momentum as a provider of an alternate payment for social games.The company touted its progress in September, but it has made more progress now. Boku is announcing today that 12 more game developers have signed up to use its mobile payments system. Full told, the ...
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• Norwest Closes $1.2 Billion Venture Fund

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 770
  Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), one of the most respected funds in Silicon Valley, says that it has closed NVP XI, a $1.2 Billion fund that would invest in diverse sectors and geographies. NVP, which recently recorded a major hit with the $405 million sale of video-conferencing equipment maker LifeSize, is one of ...
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• Solar Thermal Startup Ausra Looking to Sell?

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 650
  When news breaks that a company is in talks to be acquired, pundits are often quick to point to it as a positive sign . But in reality, it all depends on the valuation and the price of the deal. Over the past couple of days the Financial Times and Reuters have reported that Ausra, the solar thermal startup with a ...
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• Three buyers vying for solar thermal company Ausra

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 667
  Filed under: Private equity , Technology , Green Stocks , PG and E Corporation (PCG) Sunny skies are here for Ausra, the solar thermal company backed by Kleiner Perkins and Khosla Ventures. The company is looking for a buyer, and its already talking to three, according to a report by Reuters . Everything is ...
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• November 4 is Application Deadline for Opportunity to Meet with Khosla Ventures on November 13

  
  Green VC — Authority: 112
  A brief note -- Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 9:00 am PST is the deadline to apply for an opportunity to have a one-on-one meeting with Alex Kinnier , Partner at Khosla Ventures, on November 13th.  More information on this program from the Environmental Business Cluster (EBC) is available in this prior Green VC ...
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• Despite Slump, Venture Firm Sets Up $575 Million Fund

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  SAN FRANCISCO — Even amid the contraction of the venture capital industry, which fertilizes the seeds of new technology start-ups, some firms are expanding.
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• Venture Firm Sets Up $575 Million Fund

  
  DealBook — Authority: 761
  Greylock Partners, which has backed Facebook and LinkedIn, announced Monday that it had put together a new $575 million fund, one of the biggest to be created in the last year.
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