But in the face of pressure to keep lowering prices, it is essential that quality be maintained
A final task group was assembled to tackle how to communicate PV quality assurance ratings to the industry, stakeholders,
and provide investors with confidence in their investments. In addition, the group aims to create guidelines for inspecting factories during module manufacturing.
But money may be saved in the long run by the manufacturer who differentiates, building a hardier module for the most difficult climates and a slimmed-down, less expensive module for milder climates.
and with the added competition comes diminished profits. That is why it is essential that investors,
along with everyone else in the solar industry, know with maximum assurance how long the PV systems will last and
He noted that his bank faced decisions on advancing huge sums of money to two solar projects that had eleventh-hour problems with solar panel reliability.
and adjust the revenue projections based on the likelihood of lower overall energy output. But along the way
"It is amazing to think that what we developed in Durham with the help of BBSRC funding has been acquired by leading researchers in MIT
even if a competing price-comparison site had more or better information. The EU says part of the reason for competing sites'low rankings is applied that Google different parameters to comparison-shopping services,
Furthermore, the software integrates"key factors such as the price of materials, and their transportation, assembly and disassembly so the construction company can calculate the total cost of the building."
Chinese stock markets tumbled for a second straight day on Wednesday as investors crowded the exits,
fearing a government campaign to prop up share prices was faltering and unnerved by a steady stream of gloomy economic news. The Shanghai
despite a government-directed campaign by brokers, fund managers and regulators to stabilise prices. The sell off began late on Tuesday on speculation that the central bank was in no rush to inject more stimulus into the world's second-largest economy
which has been slowing markedly as investment and exports weaken. On Wednesday, the Commerce Ministry added to those concerns,
saying exports could continue falling in coming months, after an 8. 3 per cent plunge in July,
Domestic and global investors are growing anxious that China's economy will suffer a hard landing.
Their anxiety is heightened only by the prospect of an imminent rise in U s. interest rates, which would draw capital away from emerging markets like China."
The economy is already under threat of deflation and struggling to revive bricks-and-mortar investment. It is targeted officially to grow by 7 per cent this year,
but some economists estimate it may be growing at closer to half that. Combined exports and imports for the first seven months of 2015 fell 7. 2 per cent from the same period last year, compared with Beijing's full-year target of 6
per cent growth in total trade.""The possibility of exports to see year-on-year decline in some months could not be ruled out.
Testing Beijing's Resolve Investors sold stocks across the board on Wednesday, including in companies partly owned by the China Securities Finance Corp (CSFC),
the state margin lender tasked with buying stocks and propping up prices. The margin-lender is part of a"national team"of Chinese financial institutions assembled by Beijing to prop up prices.
The team was formed last month, after a long and stunning rally in Chinese markets ended in panic selling.
An index that tracks companies in which CSFC is a shareholder fell more than 4 per cent
revealing doubts about the team's ability to turn market sentiment around.""The government doesn't have enough money,
or willingness to buy shares now, "said Samuel Chien, partner of hedge fund manager Shanghai Boom Trend Investment management Co. The weak sentiment spread on Wednesday to the foreign exchange market,
where the yuan fell away from the official reference rate set by the central bank each morning.
within a few days of the poor July export data and other official figures showing factory-gate prices continued their three-year slide in July, touching a six-year
but most economists believe there is political pressure to let it slowly slide, which will pressure China's export-reliant Asian neighbours.
#Foreign investors Sell Record Amount of Indian Shares in August Foreign investors sold a record amount of Indian shares in August,
offloading even more than in the midst of the global financial crisis, as turbulent markets in China led many funds to reduce their holdings in riskier emerging markets.
Foreign institutional investors sold a net Rs 16,877 crore ($2. 55 billion) in Indian shares in August, more than the previous monthly record of Rs 15,347 crore in October 2008
Analysts said the sales were largely a result of the overweight positions in India by foreign investors,
Foreign investors had been net buyers as early as July when India was seen as benefitting from outflows from China.
Data on Tuesday showed India's economy grew 7 per cent in the April-June quarter from a year earlier, much slower than expected,
and investors are concerned that Prime minister Narendra Modi's reform agenda will fall short. Meanwhile a delay in the recovery in earnings has led Macquarie, Barclays and Ambit to downgrade Indian shares over the last few days s
Foreign investors-crucial in larger offerings-sold a record amount of shares in August, offloading even more than during the financial crisis.
Prabhat Dairy was forced to cut its $78 million IPO price band and extended the subscription period for investors by two days.
Just over a quarter of its book was covered on Tuesday evening. Sadbhav Infrastructure meanwhile, had received orders for only a fifth of its planned $74 million IPO in midafternoon trade on Wednesday.
Investment bankers said retail investors were pulling back, while institutions were being pickier.""It will be tricky and more selective in the coming few months.
"said one investment banker with a foreign lender.""Big IPOS demand may not get hit as much, but valuations certainly will."
"Bankers and investors in India had hoped previously for a bumper year for IPOS, with 13 companies already having listed so far this year-the most since 2011."
"said a second senior Mumbai-based investment banker.""We have to be careful about what we take to market."
Analysts warn more uncertainty is given in store the US Federal reserve is expected to raise interest rates as early as September,
Now with Malaysian palm oil prices near 6-1/2 year lows, imports could rise even more
Massive imports have driven down Indian soybean prices by 20 per cent in four months, discouraging farmers from expanding oilseed area.
There is no guarantee of prices and yield,"said Mukesh Patel, who cultivates soybeans in Dewas, a district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh."
"Government Push For Oilseeds The finance ministry is looking into requests for a hike in import duties on crude edible oils to 25 per cent from 7. 5 per cent,
"We can't sell edible oils at higher prices due to cheaper imports and oilseed farmers are not ready to accept lower prices,
"said the miller Agrawal l
#E-commerce Players Betting Big on Offline Presence Many e-commerce players have started foraying into physical retail space
"said Vikas Bhasin, CFO, Pine Labs, an integrated payment solutions company.""A larger portion of the Indian society is dominated middle class.
and will also give EMC shareholders a special stock that tracks the share price in virtual software provider VMWARE Inc."The combination of Dell
and will recommend that shareholders do so as well. The merger agreement includes a'go-shop'provision that allows EMC to solicit bids from other parties
which has a market capitalization of $53. 6 billion, the chances of them challenging Dell with a rival offer are slim,
people familiar with the matter have told Reuters. The deal will be financed through a combination of new equity from Dell's owners-founder and chief executive Michael Dell, its investment firm MSD Partners, private equity firm
Silver lake and Singapore state-owned investor Temasek Holdings-as well as the issuance of the tracking stock, new debt and cash on hand.
AI can be abused at everyone expense, escalating the dangers associated with tensions between groups, governments, and nations.
Schwab explains. e showed that we can actually make the fluctuations of one of the variables smallert the expense of making the quantum fluctuations of the other variable larger.
Additional funding was provided by the National institutes of health; the Belgian American Education Foundation; the Einstein Foundation Berlin;
a manual analysis would take up to 500.000 work hours and an investment of millions of Euros.
Giving renewable energy generation a boostenel, a Council Lead Partner, is making a big investment to boost the amount of energy generated from renewable sources in emerging markets,
That scene, straight out of the connected car playbook, would seem to require a few more years of public investment in smart roads,
few investors gave much thought to technological innovation in our agriculture system. What a difference a year can make.
receiving over $2. 36 billion of investment across 264 deals spanning the agriculture value chain,
According to data from the Cleantech Group, investment in Agtech was relatively flat before 2013. Most tech innovation in agriculture was concentrated narrowly in biotechnology and seed genetics,
and both investment and innovation was limited to players with close ties to the ag sector.
and it continued to show strong investment in early 2015. The momentum shift leading up to the phase-transition 2013 can be traced to a confluence of three underlying trends a groundswell of macro economic trends that tipped the balance between supply
but investors and entrepreneurs have started to take notice. In addition to secular trends driving the agriculture sector, the public at large is informed now better about the state of our food system
Many investors looking at these technologies are going to need to get smart on agriculture if theye going to make informed investment decisions.
Growth potential Agriculture has a long value chain and the sector is described often as being more horizontal than vertical (we tracked 16 subcategoriess diverse as biotech,
Already this year, wee seen a $50m investment into drone maker 3d Robotics and a $95m investment into microsatellite company Planet Labs, both of which count agriculture as key early market opportunities.
and Ag-focused Paine & Partners announced a new $893m Private Equity Fund that will be allocating a portion of its investment to Agtech.
Investors are even jonesing for cannabis startups; Snoop Dogg announced a $25 million fund, and Founders Fund invested in Privateer Holdings$75 million fund,
This is also a lure for investors who are attracted to companies looking to solve big problems with big market potential.
Investors seem to think so, toohe company took in $90m from the likes Silicon valley heavyweights Khosla Ventures,
Returns still need to be proved This new generation of Agtech has seen only a few major liquidity events,
and this will be a test for the industry in the years to come as investors assess their portfolios.
strategic acquisitions have largely been the path for liquidity for Agtech companies, but most of the incumbents have shown little appetite.
#Square Brings Accountability To Email Marketing Square is in the process of building up a series of products and services that use its payments platform as a foundation.
The tool allows users of Square payments services to click through an ngage your customerslink from their Insights dashboard,
because it tied directly to the customer payment accounts. If theye paying by card the Square flow asks them for an email for a receipt
and because youe talking about money here people are more likely to give accurate info.
It hard to overstate the importance of being able to directly track the return on your investment in this email marketing by equating it with dollars spent in your establishment.
But square does it without any additional hardware by leveraging the fact that they own the payments stack.
and price is always a strong pull especially for small businesses. Square Marketing feels like a solid add on for current customers.
and Capital make a very strong case for adopting its payments platform, which is the end goal.
But growth is core to Square underlying payments business, which thrives on scale. So whether that resonates with new users will be key i
profitable business so Code Kingdoms is not a not-for-profit. There is very much a business plan here.
It also a pretty delicate balancing act when free educational software at school morphs into a money-hungry parent pesterer at home.
so a kid that doesn want to spend money can still learn, adds Targett. The startup has raised around $410,
#Airware Launches Its Commercial Drone Operating system Drones could save businesses big money by doing dull, dirty,
With well over $40 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, the four year-old Airware is perhaps Silicon valley premier drone startup.
China DJI is said to be raising money at a $10 billion valuation. But long-term, theyl likely be commoditized as hardware makers around the globe clone
and undercut each other on price. It the way drones improve efficiency for heavy industry that could be the enduring moneymaker.
Whatever companies makes the software that runs these drones would make serious profits for years to come.
Airware bussed investors, customers, and a handful of reporters from San francisco to an isolated farm in Petaluma, where the startup showed off its platform with a variety of drones built for different use cases.
After several more investors and customers spoke about their reasons for backing the company the group broke out into discussions.
But the company doesn have to race to revenue just yet. It just added investment from Intel capital to the money from GE, A16z, Kleiner, First Round, Google Ventures,
and other prestigious funds. The benefit to customers like GE is clear. Plenty of companies need to inspect factories and pipelines
#Liquidity Launches To Bring Clean water To Everyone Liquidity Nanotech is trying to change the world.
Liquidity doesn look like an average startup. Built on over 15 years of patented university research,
Liquidity core technology was developed and patented out of Stony Brook University. It a membrane with pores of. 2 microns in width, small enough to eliminate microbial contaminants that make up the vast majority of water quality incidents.
Recognizing this, the Liquidity team designed their first product, Naked Filter, to showcase their membrane in a way that fit into existing consumer habits.
Liquidity had to invent their own manufacturing process. Over the past 10 years, Liquidity has done just that,
perfecting its patented electro-spinning 3d printing technology. The process begins with liquid polymer and a collector plate.
However, the Liquidity team developed a multi-nozzle system allowing for membranes to be manufactured at scale.
Liquidity pore size is down around. 2 microns. Screen Shot 2015-05-04 at 7. 24.34 AM Liquidity tech has been verified third-party by Biovir Laboratories, a microbiological testing facility, that it meets the EPA standard of 99.9999
percent bacterial removal for safe drinking water. Though the tech is strong, the challenge of adoption still remains.
Liquidity hopes first to tackle the outdoor enthusiasm of Western countries. As of today, you can pre-order the Naked Filter bottle on their website;
though, Liquidity sees its strength as a technology player and aims to become the ntel Insideof the water industry.
but with investment, it could scale the production of the units. Voxon is now talking to Spacex regarding the potential of them using the Voxiebox to design satellite parts,
#LOT Polish airlines Now Accepting Bitcoin I not a big fan of the accepts bitcointype of post
LOT Polish airlines, the official Polish air carrier, is now accepting bitcoin. What does that mean?
Interestingly, Poland is a leader in payments with a number of clever smaller banks offering more NFC and bitcoin payment options than anywhere else in Europe.
It just the matter of time when payments with the online currency will become as popular as using credit cards today.
which is why we are one of the first airlines in the world to give its passengers the possibility of paying with Bitcoins as early as today. airbaltic
and Air Lituanica are also accepting bitcoin but LOT is the first major carrier to do so in Europa Centralna.
The payments industry, facing the risk of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks and various types of credit card fraud, has begun incorporating various types of biometric technology to enhance security
As recently reported, Mastercard is launching a facial recognition payment service based on elfiestaken on a smartphone.
which is translated then into a code for confirmation of future payments. For now, Mastercard customers must still use a password
Mastercard stated that it also is working on a payment program based on voice recognition. Mastercard imminent transition to biometrics was preceded by Apple Pay launching in October 2014 of a biometric payment technology based on fingerprint ID. The newest iphone models are equipped with Apple Touch
ID fingerprint reader. And then there is Paypal, which has boosted security on its mobile app by using fingerprint sensors that are installed on some Samsung Electronics devices.
All in all the stage seems to be set for the large-scale adoption of biometric technology. While the payments industry is currently working full steam on various forms of biometric technology aimed at thwarting ever-increasing security breaches in payments technologies,
biometrics have been around for quite a while, and the technologies take different forms. Back in 1665, Marcello Malphighi was credited with the discovery of the unique patterns of fingerprints.
Contactless payments would be the next natural step enabling shoppers to complete transactions far more quickly. Taking this concept a step further,
Theoretically, in the new era of NFC payments, customers would be able to choose whatever items they wish
and leave the premises without ever approaching a cashier. Charges would automatically be referred to the customer biometric-based records.
cloud, banking and payments industries must prepare themselves for the shift from traditional authentication methods to the new biometric systems.
However, when it comes to the extensive use of biometrics in the payments industry, the biggest hurdle to overcome is widespread adoption.
Retailers and consumers will need to concur on the best form of biometric payments before passwords can become obsolete s
Gomez Andonaegui found that the price fluctuated so much that it was major stress in running his business.
Theye launching the Nebia shower head on Kickstarter with an initial price of $299. The goal is to create a direct-to-consumer brand (like Nest initial strategy with thermostats and then smoke detectors.
and at Google and Apple campuses. Theye racked up some impressive investors including Tim cook and Eric Schmidt.
because it has no cashiers. You order on an ipad, your name comes up on a transparent LCD screen box,
Going forward, Simple says it will continue to generate revenue from interest and interchange fees that is,
This is the same way it always made money, to be clear, but now it eating the cost of even more fees in an effort to improve the overall customer experience. his revenue model is a manifestation of our belief that you should have access to your money
when you need it, without paying fees, explains Simple cofounder and CEO Josh Reich. oday elimination of all fees is one example of how wee constantly working to remove any inconvenience our customers feel from using a branchless service,
You shouldn have to worry about how much it going to cost to access your money. o some extent,
because it no longer operating as a startup in need of funding to stay alive the company was acquired last year by financial services corporation BBVA for $117 million.
That means at some point, a portion of Simple customers may consider other online banking options perhaps opting for bank that does profit from overdraft fees in exchange for better interest rates, for example.
and save a lot of money in the long term. hile it sounds complex, the installation process is actually rather simple.
and it going to save a lot of money and make things much more efficient. g
#Business models For Cars Need To Evolve Beyond Ownership Annie Hsu is the strategy director at global design and strategy firm frog.
While the economic crisis of 2008 is certainly a backdrop to the decline, a trend toward moving back into cities where public transportation is often a preferable alternative to sitting on congested freeways is also a contributing factor.
, fuel, maintenance and parking expenses) are continued also a pain point for owners. Many car manufacturers are responding by concentrating efforts on improving the product itself,
."I got more diamond for less money, "says the former Southern University football player. who proposed last year at halftime during one of his alma mater's games at the Superdome in New orleans
and cost only one-third the price of conventional bullet proof vests, he said. He said silkworm cocoons were used
The discovery has led to a dramatic rise in funding for research based on CRISPR and a patent war between various scientific institutions.
For instance, a journalist can explain intricate issues like the effect of an increase in inflation on the lives of people which the robot cannot.
and saves money by avoiding checked baggage fee, she says. Even better would be if one or two of these 3d printers stay behind to enable locals to create their own (medical) 3d printed solutions.
and to save money by avoiding baggage check in fees. I wanted this to be a plug-and-play system
gradually forming a market monopoly with higher prices. Zhang Ke estimated that 70%of a patient money goes to the imported part alone.
Both predict that 3d printing can reduce that price by a third or even half. Breaking the monopoly with 3d printing should also reduce other prices So how does this 3d printed innovation help them?
Well only the acetabular cup in the entire artificial hip is 3d printed, with the rest not being so very different.
The hip prosthesis is composed of four parts: a ceramic femoral head, a femoral stem, an acetabular cup,
However, as tests revealed, 3d printing does more than reduce prices. Just a few weeks ago, Cai Hong office replaced an existing Chinese-made artificial acetabular cup with a 3d printed one.
durable 3d printed plastic parts and assembles that are indistinguishable from injection molded-product parts in all aspects except for time and money:
and print those changes without investing thousands of dollars in molds or machining parts out of expensive materials.
or willing to make a big investment in it. It an entry-level device for the curious, that might just get them excited enough to eventually upgrade to more complex 3d printer models and software.
It requires financial backing though, and since the development of the Opthalmicdocs Fundus was essentially a social enterprise,
none of the profit-driven businesses in healthcare have opened their eyes to or shown any interest in backing it.
According to Sculpteo study, over 50%of professionals consider very practical aspects of the technology such as the price of supplies
the team was able to show the varying shapes from pre-to post-inflation with a Grasshopper plug-in. Once the printed material was cured
and saves money by leaving alone wisdom teeth that were never going to cause a problem in the first place."
and their tendency to form relatively weak bonds that can be broken readily when no longer needed.
and bachelor's student Andrea Neuner from TUM's Munich School of engineering-took inspiration from a mechanism that allows nucleic acid molecules to bond through interactions weaker than base-pairing.
In nature, weak bonds can be formed when the RNA-based enzyme RNASE P"recognizes"so-called TRANSFER RNA;
and form double bonds. In the silicon dodecahedron, in contrast, all atoms have a coordination number of four
and are connected through single bonds, so that the molecule is also related to dodecahedrane (C20h20).""In its day, dodecahedrane was viewed as the'Mount everest'of organic chemistry,
In fiscal year 2011/12 the company's approximately 24,000 employees generated revenue of nearly 4. 2 billion euros.
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as well as specific sites where Nano-85 and the P domain formed bonds. According to Hansman,"this is,
The big difference between Abraxane and the Duke approach is the types of molecular bonds that are formed.
We're doing it to show the investment community that EPGL is undervalued extremely in our opinion,"Hayes continued.
Today, EPGL is also announcing that it will begin to entertain offers from various investment bankers
and partners to help EPGL achieve the next level with the investment community, including higher market tiers."
what could become a very significant revenue space in the next several years; the'Augmented reality'or'Bionic Vision'revolution is said beginning
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