No Silicon Valley companies were among the seven that made initial public stock offerings during the week. But A123 Systems, a Massachusetts-based maker of rechargeable lithium-ion Sony-VGP-BPS2-Battery systems for customers such as Black & Decker and Chrysler, closed with a 45 percent first-day climb from its $13.50 IPO price on its debut Thursday. The company, now labeled AONE on the Nasdaq ticker, raised $379 million in the offering.
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Apple makes lame attempt at placating App Store developers: Apple has launched an online a resource center for registered iPhone developers. The only problem is that it gives them nothing new—except more frustration, that is.
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Albert Mihranyan and colleagues note in the report that scientists are trying to develop light, ecofriendly, inexpensive batteries consisting entirely of nonmetal parts. The most promising materials include so-called conductive polymers or “plastic electronics.” One conductive polymer, polypyrrole (PPy), shows promise, but was often regarded as too inefficient for commercial HP DV9000 Battery .
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The 13.1-inch model, not surprisingly, is called the Envy 13. In the brief encounter I had with this model while working in an office suite, its 1366-by-768-pixel screen looked sharp–but I didn’t have a chance to subject it to PC World’s usual image-quality tests, so this is merely an initial impression.
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The public was invited to assist in the dig. They took two-hour shifts and were supervised and taught dig techniques by members of the Central Ohio Valley Archaeological Society.
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The company raised about $380 million in its initial public offering of stock, well above its original estimate of a minimum of $250 million. The offering was being scrutinized by other venture-backed Sony-PCGA-BP71-Battery companies that had delayed going public as they rode out the recent economic downturn.
