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Earth Aid Pays You To Save Energy

TechCrunch  Dec 16 09

New ways to monitor your home energy usage over the Internet are springing up. Google offers Powermeter and Microsoft has Hohm. Just last week we wrote about Wattvision. Now you can add Earth Aid to the list. But Earth Aid doesn't just show you charts of how much energy and water your household goes through. It offers a rewards program to encourage you to save energy. Earth Aid monitors how much electricity, water, and natural gas you use and how much you spend on these utilities. It grabs the data directly from the utilities (with your permission), and compares how much energy and water you consume to the same month a year ago. Full story...

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Questetra Helps Managing Business Processes Via The Web, Supports Google Apps

TechCrunch  4 hours ago

Which employee does what, when, how and with which tools? That's a critical question for many companies, which usually rely on business process management (BPM) solutions to visualize, streamline, and implement predefined workflows.

NorthScale’s Data Management Technology Attracts Zynga And Others

TechCrunch  5 hours ago

Under the radar startup NorthScale is publicly launching today with a new data management technology to help web-based companies, particularly startups that deal with large amounts of transactional data.

MySpace Employees Speak Their Mind. Lots Of Yelling Going On, Apparently.

TechCrunch  8 hours ago

We've had lots of emails from MySpace employees with their response to our most recent post about the crumbling mid level management structure.

Uh Oh. Not Another “Don’t Be Evil” Company

TechCrunch  9 hours ago

Long ago Google unofficially abandoned the Don't Be Evil mantra and replaced it with, no kidding, an "evil scale.

NSFW: ‘Tis Pity We Called Her A Whore – And Other Ineffectual Digital Apologies

TechCrunch  12 hours ago

Having now written two books about my failures in work, life and love, I think I'm qualified to say that the only difference between a memoirist and a prostitute is timing.

Magento Scores $22.5 Million For Open Source E-commerce Platform Play

TechCrunch  16 hours ago

According to a regulatory filing, LA-based Magento Commerce, which develops an open source e-commerce software suite, has recently received a $22.

PayPal Launches Revamped iPhone App, Teams With Bump For Phone-Tapping Money Transfers

TechCrunch  16 hours ago

PayPal has just launched an upgraded iPhone application that adds new features and includes a facelift that's meant to help instill a greater sense of security.

SEC Filing Shows CoTweet Sold For At Least $8.1 Million

TechCrunch  17 hours ago

When CoTweet sold to ExactTarget a couple weeks ago, the acquisition price was not disclosed. But an SEC filing put out today suggests that ExactTweet paid at least $8.

Justin.TV Turns To Law Professor Eric Goldman As It Battles Live Video Piracy

TechCrunch  18 hours ago

Before livestreaming video networks like Justin.TV can become attractive to advertisers, they need to deal with their piracy issues.

Wait, Did Ev Williams Just Interview Umair Haque? Weird.

TechCrunch  18 hours ago

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