Richard Waters

Investment in clean energy falls sharply

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10-Nov-2008 1 related
        

By Fiona Harvey in London, Richard Waters in San Francisco and Sheila McNulty in Houston Investment in low-carbon technologies is suffering its first reversal after several years of record growth, as the financial crisis dims...

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Funding tightness forces rethink

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10-Nov-2008
        

By Richard Waters and Fiona Harvey Clean technology companies are considering changing their business models to cope with their new-found difficulties in raising funding. California-based Ausra has been the most ambitious of a...

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Oil price fall checks enthusiasm for alternatives

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10-Nov-2008
        

By Fiona Harvey in London, Richard Waters in San Francisco and Sheila McNulty in Houston Renewable energy has been one of the star sectors of the market in recent years, with a rash of flotations, fundraisings and expansion...

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Microsoft rules out Yahoo takeover

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07-Nov-2008 377 related
        

By Richard Waters in San Francisco Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, on Friday ruled out a full acquisition of Yahoo, although he left the door open to a deal that would involve a purchase of just its search...

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Yahoo rises on overture to Microsoft

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06-Nov-2008 1 related
        

By Richard Waters and Chris Nuttall in San Francisco Yahoo’s shares bucked the trend of a falling stock market on Thursday as comments by the embattled internet company’s chief executive added to the belief that it could return...

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Google jilts Yahoo rather than face legal fight

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05-Nov-2008 717 related
        

By Chris Nuttall and Richard Waters in San Francisco Google has abandoned its search advertising partnership with Yahoo in the face of an antitrust lawsuit aimed at blocking the deal. The US Justice department had been...

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Yahoo finds itself in a strategic dead-end

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05-Nov-2008 1 related
        

By Richard Waters in San Francisco For a company at the centre of a historic shift in the global media business, Yahoo has looked surprisingly beleaguered in recent years. Now, with the failure of its search advertising...

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Cisco warns of falling revenues

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05-Nov-2008 173 related
        

By Richard Waters in San Francisco Cisco warned on Wednesday of a 5-10 per cent slump in its revenues in the current quarter as the collapse in IT spending seen in October spreads Despite that, the dominant maker of routers and...

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iPod inventor quits Apple after 8 years

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05-Nov-2008 360 related
        

By Richard Waters in San Francisco Tony Fadell, the man who came up with the idea for the iPod and iTunes, the combination of portable player and online store that lies behind Apple's dominance of the digital music business,...

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Victory for unlicensed radio

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05-Nov-2008 26 related
        

A group of technology companies led by Google won an important victory in Washington yesterday as the Federal Communications Commission approved a proposal to open up parts of the radio spectrum for unlicensed users. Google had...

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