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What Tesla’s Gigafactory Means for Battery Startups.

The most exciting news of the year in electric vehicles came today with the announcement that Tesla Motors will build its giant lithium ion battery factory in Nevada. It’s a huge vote of confidence in the future of EVs, but at the same time it points to the long road startups face getting their novel battery technologies into cars.

Tesla Motors has said that it plans to double the current global lithium ion battery production at a joint Tesla-Pansonic facility in Nevada by 2020 to meet anticipated demand for its electric cars, all while providing a boost to U.S. manufacturing.

Nazioartekotzea eta berrikuntza, MONDRAGONeko kooperatiben bilakaeraren giltzarriak 2013an.

Kooperatibetako negozioen nazioartearen ezaugarria areagotu da. Nazioarteko salmentak %6,7 igo dira eta dagoeneko salmenta guztien %71,1 dira. Horretaz gain, kooperatibek 136 milioi euro bideratu zituzten I+G+Bra, eta 467 asmakuntza patente dituzte, produktu eta zerbitzu berrietan 628 milioi euro fakturatzea ahalbidetu dietenak. Inbertsioei dagokionez, 2013an egindako inbertsioak 394 milioi euro izan ziren, hau da, soilik bi urte lehenago egindakoak halako bi. Eta negozioaren nukleoaren indarra adierazten duen Ebitda adierazlean 1.272 milioi euro zeuden, salmenta zifra totalaren %10,9.

Cerner compra a Siemens su división de tecnologías de la información sanitarias.

La compañía estadounidense Cerner ha anunciado un acuerdo con Siemens para adquirir la división de tecnologías de la información en servicios sanitarios, Siemens Health Services, en una operación que se eleva hasta 974 millones de euros. El presidente y consejero delegado de Cerner, Neal Patterson, ha asegurado que es una operación “en la que todos ganan”.

En bref : Batterie sans métal rare - Production d'hydrogène à partir du gaz de pétrole liquéfié.

=> Nouvelle batterie composée de matériaux abondants

L'équipe du professeur Atsuo Yamada de la Graduate School of Engineering de l'université de Tokyo a établi une nouvelle cathode Na-Fe pour les batteries. Cette nouvelle cathode ne contiendrait aucun métal rare et pourrait facilement être synthétisée, permettant ainsi le développement de batteries sodium-ion à plus haute performance que les lithium-ion. Cette batterie pourrait créer un courant de 3,8V.

=> Production d'hydrogène à partir du gaz de pétrole liquéfié

IEA slashes renewable energy forecast.

Policy uncertainty and grid integration risks are driving a slowdown in global renewable energy deployment, especially in OECD economies, according to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report published today (28 August).

Clean energy capacity investment will still rise to $1.61 trillion by 2020. But in its first global investment outlook, the agency predicted a $20 billion drop in yearly new clean energy funding by the decade’s end to $230 billion.

The Capitalist’s Dilemma – and Opportunity.

Investments to maximize short-term return on capital will not create long-term growth and jobs – and not even return on capital. This is a dilemma, but today’s super-dynamic tech industry might offer the unique combination of both fast capital returns, and simultaneous rapid new market creations from innovations.

Withings’ new device is a cute little camera with sensors to track what’s happening in your house.

We’re entering an important age, one in which we’re totally fine with having sleek little cameras equipped with sensors, sitting in our homes, tracking us.

Withings, the French company behind a variety of consumer health devices, announced today an upcoming device, the Withings Home, that is basically just that.

Best Doctors acquires population management firm Rise Health.

Best Doctors, which offers second opinions and reviews from medical experts around the world, has scooped up the Chicago-based population management company Rise Health for an undisclosed sum.

Rise Health studies large groups of patients and helps payers and providers determine how to treat them all, from the healthiest to the sickest. With Rise Health’s people and technology on board, Best Doctors hopes to be able to predict which sick patients might be best served by its expert opinions.

This might dramatically increase the number of medical reviews Best Doctors arranges every year.

Berlin launches new High-Tech Strategy (HTS)

The German government unveiled its High-Tech Strategy on Wednesday (3 September), intended to boost integration between the research and economic sectors. EurActiv Germany reports.

"We hope that ideas will create jobs here," said German Minister of Education and Research Johanna Wanka, on Wednesday (3 September).

The press conference directly followed a meeting of the Federal Cabinet, in which ministers agreed on a new High-Tech Strategy (HTS) to promote research in the business sector.

Vuelve la marca Andersen, de manos de varios exsocios.

La firma contable Arthur Andersen quebró hace más de una década a raíz del escándalo Enron, pero un grupo de antiguos socios de Andersen está convencido de que el nombre de la firma sigue atesorando valor.

Una consultora especializada en asuntos fiscales, gestionada por exsocios de la compañía, va a comprar los derechos del nombre Andersen, y planea renombrar la firma como Andersen Tax. El movimiento fue anunciado a última hora del pasado lunes.