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American Green Group Inc. has begun aggressive efforts to acquire green business opportunities. The company has contacted several parties both directly and through various mergers and acquisition companies to identify and begin the initial negotiations. John Cangiano, President of American Green said
“As of last week we have been successful in identifying three businesses for potential acquisition. We are very excited about these opportunities since they strategically fit with our goal of becoming a holding company of various green businesses. The opportunities include a green energy company that is the first to use a patented technology for burning clean coal and other waste materials for the production of power in the U.S., recovering 99.7% of the CO2 produced; a media company that publishes green magazines; and a new media company that provides publications and web-based services to green and environmentally friendly parties.”
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Cooleststuff.co.uk has announced their new range of eco friendly products to help consumers save money in these difficult times while helping the environment. The product range includes Radiator booster, Eco kettle, Complete Eco ball kit and Eco button. Eco button plugs directly into USB port of a PC or laptop. This product provides a quick and easy way to save PC and Laptop energy when away from the machine. It’s fair to say these eco products are the most cost effective way any household can help to make a difference to their pocket and the environment.
Allied Telesis announced the AT-9000/28, the first of its low-power ECO range of products. The AT-9000/28 is an entry-level standalone Managed Layer 2 Gigabit switch with 24 copper Gigabit ports and 4 active copper Gigabit / SFP combo bays and is an improved and green replacement of the AT-9000/24 switch. It consumes 334 KWh* less power during the normal course of operations over a five-year period than the AT-9000/24, which it replaces. With a highly integrated design, the switch uses the latest high density, small geometry silicon, ensuring fewer components that actually consume less power.
IBM Inc. has built its largest data center in Boulder using the green technology. Almost all of the original shell of the building was reused along with original material components. Vice President of IBM Global Server Systems, Larry Longseth, said that the building will save about 40 percent in energy with some partial alternative power.
Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., has announced the launch of the 2.5-inch MJA2 BH and MJA2 CH series 5400 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/sec mobile hard drives (HDD), achieving industry leading capacity of a half-terabyte (500GB(1)). It features the highest capacity to support full disk encryption (FDE) in a 2.5-inch form factor. The new series meets the cumulative demands of notebook PCs, desktop PCs, consumer electronics and other mobile technology applications. The new models have quite low power consumption and are manufactured with a green emphasis.
On ChannelWeb, Jennifer Hagendorf Follett questioned whether networking vendors’ rapid move to green technology is translating into greenbacks for the channel. Some Cisco Systems Inc.’s partners say that, in fact, it does, even though the reason for customers buying into the idea of green networking might be other than helping Mother Earth. Cisco channel partners say that the green phenomenon is more than hype: some customers are demanding it. Brett Shockley, CEO of Spanlink Communications, Minneapolis said
Ford Tamer, a venture capitalist and operating partner at Khosla Ventures, reveals that the number of renewal-energy plans approaching him for investment in them is increasing. Started by the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Khosla Ventures has very quickly emerged as one of the leading venture capital firms making investments in green technology. It has already invested into more than 70 companies by now. Tamer is looking forward to solar energy, IT services and electrical efficiency. Recently, the firm has put money into 9 such projects. 