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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

Amazon could agree to meet or exceed all these conditions and commit to making its digital currency reserve the squeakiest of squeaky-clean money-market funds. Part of the pitch for a private digital currency could be offering people in these communities access to cheap, secure financial services. Netflix is AWS’s largest customer.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

and tap clean, renewable energy sources. So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation. I’ll bet I can get that done long before we have a smart grid, or clean coal, or more nukes. — Dean Hewitt 20.

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