Entries tagged "Al Gore"

VC-funded car startups near production deals

Two electric car startups, Fisker Automotive Inc. and Reva Electric Car Co., which are both affiliated with well-known Silicon Valley venture capital firms, are close to announcing production deals.

Kleiner Perkins' Big Three of electric cars?

Kleiner Perkins is already invested in electric car startups Fisker Automotive and V-Vehicles. Perhaps it will invest in a third one involving an exiled Chinese auto tycoon.

Google better get used to the antitrust spotlight

The last thing Google wants is a replay of Microsoft's antitrust situation in the '90s.

Gore's Current Media IPO gets red light

The IPO market has been bone dry, with former Vice President Al Gore's Current Media the latest company to withdraw its public offering.

Green For All's Van Jones to White House

In describing his new job as special adviser for green jobs, the charismatic cleantech jobs advocate says he's not the "czar" of anything.

Obama taps Kleiner Perkins' John Doerr

The famed Kleiner Perkins partner may not know when the recession will end, but he has an idea of what will lift the country out of it.

Al Gore rolling in the green

Former vice president Al Gore may prove that politics and big money do mix. When Gore left office in 2000, he had a net worth of $2 million and now, according to Bloomberg, has been able to earn enough money to invest $35 million in Capricorn Investment Group LLC, which has dispersed his capital into "green" investments. The environmental crusader is also a budding media mogul, planning a $100 million IPO for his media company CurrentMedia, the parent of CurrentTV, which won an emmy for Best Interactive Television Service in 2007. ...

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