Alstom Grid has won three major High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) contracts with a total value of €800 million (approximately half of this amount was booked in Q1 of the current fiscal year, the other half will be booked in Q2). The HVDC projects will build energy highways for bulk power transmission in India, bring [...]

WASHINGTON – Building on President Obama’s Climate Action Plan and the Administration’s efforts to expand clean energy innovation, the Energy Department announced today nearly $67 million in nuclear energy research and infrastructure enhancement awards. 83 projects were selected from across the country based on their potential to create scientific breakthroughs that both help strengthen the [...]

Software-defined networking (SDN) continues to gain ground within the broader enterprise and cloud service provider markets for datacenter networking. According to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC), the worldwide SDN market for the enterprise and cloud service provider segments will grow from $960 million in 2014 to over $8 billion by 2018, representing [...]

WASHINGTON – Bureau of Reclamation Acting Commissioner Lowell Pimley announced that $779,200 will be made available to fund two emergency drought projects. The Cachuma Operation and Maintenance Board in California will receive $300,000 and Alamo Band of the Navajo Nation Chapter Well in New Mexico will receive $479,000.
“Ensuring people have access to water across the [...]

London, UK and San Jose, Calif. – August 12, 2014 – Push Technology, a leading provider of data distribution solutions enabling scalable and efficient Web and mobile applications, today announced that it has expanded its presence in the U.S. with a new West Coast office, backed by more than $5 million in Series A funding [...]

(Boston, MA) The New England Foundation for the Arts announces $630,000 in grants through its National Theater Project to support the development and touring of six new theater works.
The National Theater Project (NTP) promotes the development and touring of artist-led collaborative, ensemble, and devised theater works. Modeled on NEFA’s National Dance Project, NTP functions as [...]

Gift will support athletics and the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Durham, NC – Alumnus Grant Hill and his wife, Tamia, are giving $1.25 million to Duke University to support athletics and the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, President Richard H. Brodhead announced Wednesday.
Duke Athletics will receive $1 million for facility upgrades; the rest [...]

City, State, Country., July 25, 2014 – (PressReleasePoint) – Ever since their introduction in the global market in 2009, pico projectors have revolutionized the global projector market. Although the market is still in nascent stage, the demand for pico projectors has been registering significant growth over the last few years. Key factors driving the global [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – By reducing inequality, boosting consumer spending and reducing underemployment, Maryland’s new Minimum Wage Act (HB 275) could generate over $2 billion a year in economic benefits for the state according to a new analysis by Center for Sustainable Economy (CSE). CSE is an economics think tank working on sustainability issues in Maryland [...]

BRASILIA, Brazil — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) assisted the Brazilian Department of Federal Police (DPF) in executing Operation “Proteja Brasil,” or “Protect Brazil,” aimed at combating online child pornography. Approximately 200 federal police officers executed 40 search warrants in 14 states across Brazil as part of the operation.
The operation [...]