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Roundup: Cleantech gets record investments, Google opens enterprise market and more

Posted on April 09, 2008

Here s the latest action:Cleantech investments laugh in the face of recession Everyone knows the economy is in the dumps, right? (Heck, it even says so in The New York Times.) Well, no one told the VCs putting their money in cleantech. The Cleantech Group reports that cleantech investment reached a record high of $1.25 billion during the first quarter of 2008, with $195 million going to biofuels and $119 million going to solar. It doesn t hurt that cleantech projects can take so long that we ll probably go through several more boom-and-bust cycles before some investments start paying...

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