Another portfolio company, smart grid company Silver Spring Networks, filed to go public in July.
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Smart grid company Silver Spring Networks, which set the terms of its IPO earlier this week, is the latest clean-tech company aiming to provide a jolt to the industry.
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Just two technology firms have held initial public offerings this year: "smart grid" energy company Silver Spring Networks Inc. last week and social network Professional Diversity Network LLC the week before.
Silver Spring Networks sells its Smart Energy Platform to utilities companies.
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The U.S. Department of Energy has approved billions of dollars to technology developers such as Silver Spring and a bunch of utilities to test and deploy smart grid technologies across the country.
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Other smart money managers prefer the liquidity of exchange-traded funds like SPDR Gold Shares or iShares Silver Trust.
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In the seemingly infinite galaxy of philanthropy, the Liberty Science Center Genius Gala sparkled brightly on Friday night, not only honoring chess legend Garry Kasparov, brain-mapping scientist Dr. Cori Bargmann and entrepreneur Richard Branson, but with stratospherically smart award presenters like James Watson, best known for his co-discovery of DNA, election predictor Nate Silver and astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
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