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The results of a KPMG survey project continued investment in the green-tech sector this year and a wave of acquisitions.
Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has released a content-development tool designed to move development into the Internet age.
Venture capitalists can't work out how to profit from the rising popularity of Web 2.0 services, the UK Technology Innovation & Growth Forum heard on Monday.
IBM on Tuesday unveiled a specially tailored cross-licensing program for venture capitalists and their start-ups, as it seeks to populate emerging businesses with its technology.
For Australian start-ups looking for venture capital, 2009 was a very bad year. 2010 may be no better.
The global financial crisis might have tarnished some of Silicon Valley's lustre, but for many Australian technology entrepreneurs who have migrated to the US, it hasn't lost its bright shiny status.
Silicon Valley-based wireless technology start-up Quantenna Communications is planning to open a 30 to 50-person research facility in Australia following an injection of venture capital by the Australian-US fund Southern Cross Venture Partners.
In a ZDNet CIO Vision Series video interview, Lars Rabbe talks about innovating around Web 2.0, social networking and the tools driving development at the company.
Bringing any new system into an established organisation, especially when it is a concept like open source, is a matter of selling the idea.
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Former Ximian chief executive David Patrick, now a general manager at Novell, says the Office productivity suite is the key to breaking Microsoft's hold on the desktop.
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A leading analyst house is urging mobile operators to abandon their plans for third-generation (3G) networks.
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