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Last year the HI State Legislature in response to the economic crisis significantly cut back Act 221 which was responsible for $1.3 billion in private investment in start-up innovation companies in HI. As a result there has been a dramatic drop in investment. Now with SB2401 there is an attempt to defer honoring investments already made.
In February Google announced that it was going to provide one or more communities gigabit broadband fiber with the goal of serving as a test bed. A group of us on Maui put together a Facebook page, a blog and a YouTube site which we are still evolving. We also worked with Maui County Councilmember Sol Kaho`ohalahala to create a response to Google’s RFI on behalf of the Maui County Council.
Jay Fidell of ThinkTechHawaii has watched the evolution of Hawaii’s news media over the last decades and played a part as a columnist, tv show host, and blogger. He brought together over 200 people including speakers from Washington, D.C. and a U.S. blogger in China, and one of the top Silicon Valley industry watchers plus Hawaii’s top media together on March 18th, 2010 in Honolulu.
Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar is launching a new venture with the goal of blending the best of traditional journalism with social networking: Peer News. Newly hired award winning editor John Temple’s first public talk on what Peer News hopes to achieve.
Native Hawaiian owned company, Akimeka hosted Sen. Inouye at a re-dedication ceremony for their Joint Information Technology Center on 8/21
On August 21, 2009–the 50th Anniversary of Hawaii becoming a State, the Maui High Performance Computing Center, which is 15 years old, received an upgrade and renamed from “Jaws” to “Mana”. Operated by the University of Hawaii and the U.S. Air Force Research Labs, it is, for at least a short while, the most powerful computer facility in the U.S.
Creative Conflict Solutions, an Hawaii consulting business, has just released a white paper, “A Clean Energy Future for Maui and Hawaii: Conversations with Key Players - Issues, Interests and Solutions”.
Hawaii’s online virtual community for techies and entrepreneurs interested in technology meet face-to-face on the UH Manoa campus. HiBEAM and Virtual Law Partners organizes separate event to discuss commercializing UH technology.
Held both on Maui (7/31) and Oahu (8/26) - with review latest in tax issues of interest to small businesses including Federal stimulus bill provisions.
Your CoolProjects host is leaving his day job with the Hawaii SBDC Network to start a private consulting practice, Maui Venture Consulting LLC. Also planning a major upgrade to CoolProjectsMaui