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Featured Articles » Pipe Down! EPA Proposes Stricter Fuel Pipe Emission Standards » IDC Report: 2013 Will Be 'Tipping Point' for Smart Buildings » Invisible City to Take Root in a London Park This Summer » New England States Wrangle Over Regional Purchase of Renewable Energy   Sponsored By: Loqate WEBINAR: How Good Is Your Address Data? Are You Really Sure? Tuesday April 16, 2013 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET, 4:00pm London, 5:00pm CET SIGN UP TODAY! We all want clean, accurate, and correct address data. People, processes, and policies get in the way. Trying to obtain and keep high quality addresses for one country is hard enough. What do you do when you are faced with addresses in over 240 countries? Loqate has developed technology and products that enable organizations to raise the quality of one of their key assets, customer address data. Loqate addresses the issues that arise from different languages and character sets, over 130 different address formats worldwide, and many diverse sources of data. What Attendees will learn: The issues concerning addresses confronting organizations as they extend their global reach The impact that increased address quality can have on customer satisfaction, customer retention, and revenue How global address verification and geocoding works The options and cost of integrating an address verification and geocoding engine with existing systems   Top Stories » Gazelle Promotes Sustainable Technology to Restore Brazil's Atlantic Forest » Tandem Transit Gets Loan Facility from Thermo Credit » Will Motorola's Next Razr Boast a Solar Edge? » $46 Million in Funding Sustains 'Intense Solar Activity' in New York State   From The Expert Corner April 02, 2013 Bill Gates is Among Investors Backing New Aquion AHI Batteries By Cheryl Kaften TMCnet Contributor Bill Gates (News - Alert) is among the key investors who participated in a recently completed $35 million Series D rounding of financing by Pittsburgh-based Aquion Energy, Inc.—a developer and manufacturer of low-cost, nontoxic aqueous hybrid ion (AHI) batteries and energy storage systems for the grid. In the company’s latest financing round, which was led by Moscow-based Bright Capital, Gates was joined by another new backer—Chicago-based Gentry Venture Partners. Returning financiers included Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers of Menlo Park, California; Foundation Capital of Atlanta, and Advanced Technology Ventures of Waltham, Massachusetts. This is not Gates’ first time as at the battery rodeo. He already has funded at least five battery startups–including Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Ambri, which is commercializing a liquid metal battery first invented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT (News - Alert)... Read More      Featured Videos GreenPeak Shows Smart Home Solutions    Featured Resources » How Oracle Fusion Middleware Can Address Data Challenges OEMs & ISVs Face Designing and Deploying Smart Grid Solutions   Featured Channels » Renewable Energy » Solar Power » Wind Power   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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