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Here's a few options:iPad Apps:Zite, Pulse: Both have options that allow for you to customize news from your industry (Recommended categories: Technology, Startups, UX/UI, Design, Business, Investing)Traditional RSSVC and Research Firm NewslettersSorry I can't find the sign-up links, but a number of research firms and VCs have weekly newsletters that summarize all the happenings in the industry. A good one I recommend is ThinkEquity: Internet NewsletterHere's an excerpt of their most recent email to give you a sense:ThinkEquity LLCInternet NewsletterVolume 5, Issue 7 – Week of March 26, 2012Recent NewsSocialYahoo sued Facebook over 10 patents that include methods and systems for advertising on the Web, opening the first major legal battle among big technology companies in social media. The lawsuit, filed in a San Jose, California federal court, marks a major escalation of patent litigation that has already swept up the smartphone and tablet sectors and high-tech stalwarts such as Apple, Microsoft and Motorola Mobility Holdings. (Link). Facebook acquired 750 patents from IBM, adding IP that may help it counter allegations of patent infringement. (Link)Twitter celebrated its sixth birthday last week. The Company has posted a number of stats about its growth in usage. Twitter now has 140 million active users is seeing 340 million Tweets a day (more than double what it was last March). A year ago, Twitter was seeing 140 million Tweets per day. (Link)Pinterest introduced brand-new profile pages, its first major design change since its major rise in popularity in the last six months. Pinterest launched in 2010, but recently it has seen astronomical growth and counts as one of the top 10 social networks on the web. According to recent comScore data, Pinterest users spend an average of 89 minutes per month on the site, which easily bests Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. Only Facebook users spend more time than Pinterest users, with an average of 405 minutes spend there per month. (Link)Socialbakers shared some interesting data that gives insight into which brands are successfully engaging users on Facebook, and which are finding more luck on Twitter. Over all, it’s not surprising to find that Facebook is a far more suitable tool to use when trying to engage fans. Facebook engages people in a conversation and a dialogue providing its fans with a feeling of exclusivity. Twitter on the other hand is limited by 140 characters but at the same time its content reaches more people. (Link)Brands are wasting no time switching over to Facebook’s new Timeline Page design. Just one week after the social network rolled out the radical facelift, more than 8 million Pages made the transition. Facebook rolled out its new take on the personal profile to all users in December. More than one million Facebook Pages are making the switch to the new Timeline design each day, a Facebook spokesperson told VentureBeat. (Link)E-CommercecomScore released its monthly analysis of U.S. web activity at the top online properties for February 2012 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. Valentine’s Day had Americans searching the web for flowers, jewelry and just the right e-card for their loved ones. The highly anticipated Super Bowl XLVI drove traffic to a few key advertisers’ websites, with especially strong growth seen on Auto Manufacturer sites. (Link)Online ticketing platform Eventbrite is making a big push towards reaching $1 billion in gross ticket sales in 2012; after doubling both the number of events on platform in 2011 (458,207 events in 2011) and tickets sold last year (20,798,509 tickets sold in 2011). In 2011, the Company sold $400 million worth of tickets, which is double the $207 million it did in 2010. The Company just announced a complimentary credit card reader to allow event organizers to collect ticket payments on the go. (Link)Fandango announced a partnership with Yahoo that will see it becoming the online and mobile movie ticketer for Yahoo! Movies, a service with over 30 million U.S. users according tocomScore. The new collaboration offers Yahoo users access to Fandango’s 20,000 screens across the U.S. and will support purchases online, on mobile and on tablets. (Link)There’s been lots of debate about whether mobile apps or the web have the upper hand when it comes to making content for smartphones, and when it comes to using it. Some interesting insights from Nielsen on how in the case of mobile shopping, for now the main audience in the U.S. seems to be much more interested in using the mobile web over store-specific apps. (Link)eBay launched a new feature of its iPad app called Watch With eBay, which allowed users to shop a selection of items on the marketplace related to what they are currently watching on TV. eBay is now separating out the feature into a standalone, free iPad app. The Watch With eBay app surfaces merchandise related to what consumers are watching on television, from the latest fashion trends at red carpet awards shows to sports memorabilia, to DVDs, signed autographs and other items related to favorite shows and actors. (Link)GamingJust days after the launch of Angry Birds Space, Rovio announced via Twitter that the application has already seen 10 million downloads. The game is topping Apple's paid and top-grossing charts for the App Store in countries around the world. (Link)Tablet games are expected to grow to $3.1 billion worldwide, according to a new report from analyst firm Juniper Research. The spending on tablet games is expected to account for a third of all mobile game revenues by 2016, when total mobile game revenues are expected to top $18.3 billion. (Link)Casual and mobile games company Miniclip has teamed up with app monetization platform and ad server MoPub, releasing a joint study on the behavior of mobile gamers, breaking the group down by age, gender, and content preference. The biggest surprise from the study came in this little nugget of user behavior wisdom: Despite its name and connotation, 44 percent of gamers play “mobile games” on the couch versus playing in any out-of-living room location, “including time spent traveling or waiting,” the study says. (Link)Gree has become a billion-dollar company in Japan with its mobile social games network. The Company launched Zombie Jombie, the first title made by Gree’s U.S. developers for an American audience. The title is an important one for Gree, which is competing with a larger rival Japanese firm DeNA, which has launched its worldwide mobile social network Mobage in an attempt to expand far beyond its audience of 35 million Japanese users. (Link). A week later, Gree launched its second U.S. game, Alien Family. (Link)MobileTaking just the use of paid content on tablets in Q4 2011, Nielsen found that in the U.S., a majority of tablet owners have already paid for downloaded music, books and movies, with 62 percent, 58 percent and 51 percent respectively saying they have already made such purchases. The one area that really fell down in the U.S. was news, where only 19 percent said they had ever paid to read news on their tablets. (Link)Amazon announced its mobile app marketplace, the Amazon Appstore for Android, is celebrating its first birthday with a week-long sale on some of its most popular apps. The Company also took the time to share some figures about the Appstore’s growth over the past year, including the size of its selection, which grew from 4,000 apps at launch to 31,000+ apps. (Link)The makers of seven iOS-only, for-charge applications, including the sophisticated photo capture and edit application Camera+, have sold more than 10 million applications by way of the App Store. Tap Tap Tap, a hobby-project turned accidental big-business, crossed the 10 million paid application sales milestone for all of its apps. (Link)With a metric that’s bound to make mobile app developers jealous, Apple has confirmed that its newly launched iOS-compatible version of iPhoto hit the 1 million user mark, only 10 days after its release. That’s not app downloads, mind you, but unique users. Given the app’s universal nature, it’s likely that many are installing it at least twice – once on the iPhone, or possibly the iPod Touch, and then again on the iPad. But Apple is counting such an installation only once in this metric. The number of actual downloads may be much higher. (Link)IDC is upping its forecasts for how many “media” tablets will be shipped this year. The analysts predict that the number will top 106.1 million units, up from their previous forecast of 87.7 million units, due in part to strong demand for that new iPad, but also a number of other devices at a range of price points. Indeed, while Apple will continue to be the single biggest tablet maker on the market, Android, collectively, will continue to hold its own against it, with some notable devices like the Amazon Kindle Fire doing particularly well. (Link)In Appcelerator and IDC's quarterly report on the trends of the mobile industry, 39% of developers answered that Google's total assets were more important to them than Facebook's social graph. Considering the huge lead that Facebook has in the social space, this is a bit of a coup for Google. What else are developers interested in at the start of 2012? HTML5 is on the rise, cloud services are hot and developer interest in Android is dwindling. (Link)Digg founder Kevin Rose has been hired by Google, according to sources close to the situation. Rose’s mobile app incubator Milk yesterday announced it was shutting down its only product, Oink. Google is not outright buying or “acqhiring” Milk, the sources explicitly said, but Rose and some others from the company have been hired. It’s not clear what will happen to Milk after Rose joins Google. (Link)PaymentsPayPal unveiled a new device that helps small businesses accept credit and debit cards through mobile devices. "PayPal Here" -- as the service is called -- will provide a free, triangle-shaped card reader and mobile application to small merchants. PayPal charges a fee of 2.7 percent of the purchase price for all types of credit and debit cards -- including those issued by American Express; transaction fees for processing AmEx cards are often higher on other services. That compares with the 2.75 percent charged by Square. (Link)Nokia, the world's largest handset maker by unit shipments, said it is planning to shut down its Mobile Financial Services business, including a Nokia Money service launched recently in India, as part of its strategy to move out of non-core business areas. Nokia didn't say when the unit will close. Nokia established the business in 2009 aimed at bringing secure electronic payments to people without a bank account, with a focus on emerging markets. (Link)Video/MusicLess than two weeks after a relaunch featuring deeper ties to Facebook, music video service Vevo is seeing a record number of video views per person and is now netting 3.5 billion total views a month. Vevo, the independent music video company created in partnership with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and the Abu Dhabi Media Company, has seen video views per person jump 70 percent and Facebook sharing climb 100 percent since its March 9 relaunch. (Link)OtherThe Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) is headed to President Barack Obama’s desk. The House signed off on the final version of the package, aimed at helping small businesses and startups more easily raise capital by loosening various Securities and Exchange Commission regulations. (Link). In summary, the act: 1) increases opportunities for equity investment through crowdfunding; 2) it eases rules on public disclosure; 3) it makes it easier to go public. (Link)The Internet accounts for 4.7% of the U.S. economy and is projected to grow 6.5% a year through 2016, according to a new report. The Boston Consulting Group took a look at the top 20 global economies — also known as the “G-20″ — and found lots of reason for optimism. On average, the Internet economy is expected to grow 10.8% for the G-20. However, the expansion in developed countries like the U.S. will be on the low end, around 8%, while developing countries like Argentina and India will expand at rates of 24% and 23%, respectively. (Link)Recent M&APRIMEDIA, a premier renter resource for apartment and rental home information and listings, announced that it has entered into an agreement with eBay to acquire its Rent.comsubsidiary. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. PRIMEDIA’s websites and mobile applications will be complemented by Rent.com’s successful pay-for-performance business model. The combination will provide advertiser clients a more comprehensive suite of products that deliver cost-effective and high quality leads and leases. Rent.com adds another strong brand to PRIMEDIA’s extensive apartment and rental home resources, which include the web properties ApartmentGuide.com, Rentals.com and RentalHouses.com.Zynga announced it has acquired New York-based social game developer OMGPOP, makers of the popular cultural hit mobile game, Draw Something, and over 35 additional social games. As a part of the Zynga family, OMGPOP will focus on building new mobile IP and strengthening its existing portfolio of fun and creative social games. While Zynga is technically buying OMGPOP, the reality is that it's buying "Draw Something," a six-week old game that already has 35 million users, and generates $250,000 in revenue on a daily basis. That game caught Zynga's eye, and it won a small bidding war with Electronic Arts and Disney to close the deal, according to a few sources familiar with the deal.Amazon announced that it will acquire order fulfillment company Kiva Systems for $775 million in cash. Kiva Systems’ interconnected hardware and software package is designed to streamline the process of picking, packing and shipping e-Commerce products for delivery. The Company uses hundreds of autonomous mobile robots and a sophisticated control software, to provide a fulfillment system for retailers.Social gaming firm PlayPhone has added a marketing model in buying SocialHour, a social mobile marketing company, for $51.5 million. PlayPhone has already constructed a large social network for games across iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 and HTML5. Gamers can meet and play against one another on the same games but across different operating systems, including the Web. The company claims to have had accumulated 3 million members just in the months leading to the December launch of the social gaming platform.Twitter announced that it had acquired the blogging platform Posterous. Similar to its main rival, Tumblr, the site allows users to easily add posts to their blogs via the web, the Posterous mobile app or by email. Twitter announced the acquisition on its blog: “Today we are welcoming a very talented group from Posterous to Twitter,” the post said. “Posterous engineers, product managers and others will join our teams working on several key initiatives that will make Twitter even better.” The precise terms of the deal were not revealed by either party.Youku, owner of China’s most- popular online video site, acquired smaller competitor Tudou Holdings in a $1 billion stock deal that will help lower costs for licensing and transmitting content. Holders of Tudou’s American depositary receipts will receive 1.595 ADRs of Youku for each Tudou ADR they own, the two companies said in a joint statement yesterday. The proposed deal will strengthen the new company’s ability to compete with Baidu Inc. (BIDU) and Tencent Holdings Ltd. (700) in adding online video users in a nation where Google Inc. (GOOG)’s YouTube is restricted. Youku and Tudou together accounted for more than a third of China’s Web video advertising revenue last quarter, according to research company Analysys International.Recent Private PlacementsPersonalized ads company, myThings, has raised $15 million from Iris Capital, Accel Partners, Carmel Ventures, and Deutsche Telecom.Online work platform, oDesk, raised $15 million from T. Rowe Price, Benchmark Capital, Globespan Capital Partners, and Sigma Partners.Integrate, startup that helps advertisers integrate ad channels, raised $11 million in Series B funding from Comcast Ventures, Liberty Group, and Foundry Group.Spigit, social innovation company, raised $15.2 million from Warburg Pincus.Mobile payments startup, Boku, raised $35 million from New Enterprise Associates, Telefonica, Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, and Khosla Ventures.Online media publisher, Vox Media, owner of tech news site The Verge, sports blog network SB Nation, and game news site Vox Games, raised $17 million from undisclosed investors.Apperian, startup to help businesses build apps, raised $12.4 million from North Bridge Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners, and CommonAngels.Video game tournament company, Major League Gaming, raised $13 million from undisclosed investors.Social investment network, eToro, picked up $15 million from Spark Capital, BRM, Guy Gamzu, and Jonathan Kolber.Online textbook seller, Chegg, raised $25 million in funding from undisclosed investors.ThinkEquity Research RecapRobert Coolbrith, Internet AnalystKIT digital, Inc. (KITD): Sell-Off Unwarranted, In Our View; Reiterate Buy (Link to Report)KITD reported 4Q11 earnings in line with the company's preanouncement. However, shares traded off yesterday (down 8% versus the NASDAQ up 0.5%), we believe in reaction to management's FCF guidance (indicating significant working capital consumption in FY12), a brief delay in the filing of the company's 10-K, and management discussion of potential incremental M&A. While the story remains "noisy," we continue to believe that the company's opportunity remains attractive/intact and, with shares now valued at 4.5x/3.3x FY12E/FY13E EBITDA, we believe downside is limited and risk-reward very attractive. We reiterate our Buy rating and $22 price targetVelti plc (VELT): Strong Q4, Solid Guide; Reiterate Buy (Link to Report)VELT reported a strong Q4 performance: the company significantly exceeded consensus forecasts for revenue/EBITDA/EPS, issued solid guidance essentially in-line with consensus forecasts (and implying continued rapid growth), and provided updated business metrics that represent a significant improvement in transparency, in our view. Despite a significant uptick in shares yesterday (up 27% versus the NASDAQ flat), we continue to see opportunity in the disconnect between the company's valuation (6.5x FY13E EBITDA) and the attractiveness of the company's business model/opportunity (35%+ 3-5 year revenue growth, continued margin expansion, SaaS-like predictability). We reiterate our Buy rating and $22 price target.Henry Guo, Internet AssociateSINA Corporation (SINA): We Believe Article Misinterprets Sina’s Commentary About Weibo Users (Link to Report)We believe a Reuters article misinterpreted Sina's commentary on the 60% number about its Weibo users, and believe investors should lower their expectations as the March 16 deadline nears. That said, we continue to feel incrementally positive on Weibo as the company clears real-name verification for users who have connected their mobile phone with their Weibo accounts. We estimate by now at least 11 million of daily active users (about 40% of total daily active users) have passed real-name verification. Longer term, while we continue to see the significant potential upside for SINA shares due to Weibo, we would rather closely monitor the user engagement on the platform after March 16, before we become aggressive on Weibo valuation.SINA Corporation (SINA): Incrementally Positive on Weibo as March 16 Deadline Nears; Raising PT (Link to Report)Sina has cleared real-name requirement for some Weibo users who had previously connected Weibo accounts with mobile phones. Now we estimate more than 11 million daily active users have their real-name accounts verified, exceeding our expectation. We modestly raise our Weibo valuation from $1.5B to $2.0B and PT from $78 to $88 on likely more than we expected real-name users by 2012. Longer term, while we continue to see the significant potential upside for SINA shares due to Weibo, we would rather closely monitor the user engagement on the platform after March 16, before we become aggressive on Weibo valuation.

Its a really long answer but it was neccessary.Relations with East and Southeast AsiaFrom the very beginning the Modi led govt made it ample clear that India would focus more and more on improving relation with ASEAN and other East Asian countries as per India's Look East Policy which was formulated during Narasimha Rao's govt in 1992 for better economic engagement with its eastern neighbours but successive govt later successfully turned it into a tool for forging strategic partnership and security cooperation with countries in that region in general and Vietnam and Japan in particular.In her recent visit to Hanoi, Vietnam Sushma Swaraj has stressed on the need for an Act East policy that she said should replace India's over two decade-old Look East Policy emphasizing a more proactive role for India in this region.JapanJapan occupies a very important place in Modi’s Asian strategy, as India is looking toward Japan, at a time when it is becoming 'normal state' amending decades old pacifist constitution, to forge a security alliance to balance an increasingly assertive China in the Indo-Pacific region. Maritime cooperation is most likely and bilateral naval exercises are on the cards. Significantly in 2014 Japan participated in the Malabar, a primarily bilateral naval exercise between India and US, held in Sea of Japan. Negotiations progressed recently for selling of US 2 amphibious aircraft to Indian Navy and the long pending civil nuclear agreements which would eventually help strengthen the strategic partnership.Modi visited Japan on a five-day official trip from 30 August to 3 September which was labelled as his fist bilateral state visit outside the subcontinent also by the media.His 2014 visit further strengthened the ties between the two countries and resulted in several key agreements, including the elevating the already established strategic partnership to the "Special Strategic Global Partnership".[10]Business ties are stronger than ever with a commitment of US$33.5 billion Japanese investment in India in the next five year. India is in the process of importing Shinkansen technology form Japan as part of Modi’s Diamond Quadrilateral project for introducing high-speed rail in India.His visit to Kyoto supervised the signing of a cooperation agreement between Varanasi and Kyoto both regarded as heritage city and cultural centre in their respective country.ChinaPrior to election Modi had expressed reservation over alleged Chinese 'expansionism' into India's frontiers as India and China locked into bitter territorial disputes over last fifty years. During his Japan trip, Modi has said eighteenth century mind-set of vistaar-vad or expansionism won’t work and vikaash-vad or peaceful development is needed for sustainable peace and tranquility in the world which was read by a portion of media as a subtle jibe on China. But he is also in favour of enhanced economic partnership with China.Economic activity defines relation with China as it is India's biggest trading partner in goods. Soon after taking office commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharamanhas already made two visits to China. The two countries have forged a mechanism called 'strategic and economic dialogue' (SED) to discuss the trade and other economic issues. Modi has publicly expressed his willingness to enhance trade and economic cooperation with China. Describing the newly found activism in bilateral relation Modi said India China relation moving "INCH (India-China) towards MILES(Millennium of Enhanced Synergy)".India sent National Security Adviser Ajit Doval as a special envoy of Prime Minister Modi to Beijing to negotiate the agenda and the schedule of the presidential visit to India which is appreciated by the top Chinese leadership who are known to be fond of diplomatic decorum.President Xi Jinping, only third Chinese President to visit India, arrived in Ahmedabad, Modi's hometown, on 17 September which coincides with Modi's birthday. China is expected to commit investment over US$100 billion in India's infrastructure projects including in high speed trains and dedicated Chinese industrial parks to balance the huge trade deficit exists in China's favour. The two leaders had earlier met in Brazil this year on the sidelines of BRICS summit.VietnamVietnam, strategically located in the South China Sea, plays an pivotal role in India's Southeast Asian policy and it is often referred as the important pillars of its 'Look East Policy' by the Indian diplomats.Defence and security cooperation in recent years define the strategic partnership along with fast growing bilateral trade which stands at US$8 billion in FY 2013.Visiting Indian President Pranab Mukherjee called Vietnam, "a trusted friend and an important pillar of India's Look East Policy" which emphasized the depth of their strategic partnership. The leaders reiterated their desire and determination to work together to maintain peace, stability, growth and prosperity in Asia.[15]And the two side vouched for 'freedom of navigation' in the South China Sea, which China claims as its exclusive economic zone, and called the parties concerned to exercise restraint, avoid threat or use of force and resolve disputes through peaceful means in accordance with universally recognised principles of international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea-1982.India-Vietnamese defence cooperation has multiplied in recent years with emphasize on maritime security which includes training of Vietnamese naval personnel with Indian naval ships making frequent port-call in Vietnam in past few years. Recently it extended a US$100 m Line of Credit for purchase of Fast attack craft for Vietnamese navy from India. Vietnam is also interested in acquiring Brahmos supersonic missiles, an Indo-Russian joint venture project, Vietnam has friendly relation with both Russia and India a precondition for exporting the missile system and talks regarding the deal is believed to be in the advanced level.Agreements signed in oil exploration cooperation between India and Vietnam as it earlier offered India to explore strategically located oil blocks in South China Sea, which is disputed by Chinese claims. On the following day Chinese Foreign Ministry through an official media statement expressed its objection to India's activity in what it refers its exclusive economic zone. External Affairs Minister earlier during her Hanoi trip said the state-owned ONGC Videsh will exploit the opportunity provided in Vietnam, a development China sees as an aggression into its backyard.Economic ties are fast growing with US$8 billion bilateral trade and the two sides emphasized the need of increasing people to people contact which is set to get a boost with upcoming launch of direct flight between Delhi and Ho Chi Minh City and using Bollywood to promote Vietnam to Indian audience.MyanmarDespite sharing a long border with India Myanmar (erstwhile Burma) often left out of India's neighbourhood policy, but lately Myanmar was identified as India's gateway to the Southeast Asia and therefore the focus is on rebuilding the historic relations between the two counties.Modi visited the eastern neighbour to attend a couple of multilateral meetings including the East Asia Summit.He met President Thein Sein for the first time on 11 November 2014 and they identified three 'C's to strengthen their bilateral relations, those are connectivity, cultural links and people to people contacts. Among which connectivity is all set to get a big boost with projects like upcoming Imphal-Mandalaya Bus service, India-Myanmar-Thailand trilateral highway, Kaladan Multi-modal Transit Transport Project and the two sides also focused on the need of direct air links.The two sides also discussed the possibility of Indian investment in Myanmars's special economic zones and ways to enhance bilateral trade which stands at US$2 billion, well below the potential.He also met the Nobel laureate and Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyiand referred her as "symbol of democracy" for her untiring efforts for the restoration of democracy in her country and he presented her with a special copy of Mahatma Gandhi's commentary on Bhagwad Gita. Suu Kyi also reciprocated by calling India, her "second home" recalling her early days spent in India. The two leaders have discussed the importance of democracy for the stability of the region as a whole.SingaporeSingapore is amongst the top source countries of foreign direct investment (FDI) coming to India. Economic cooperation dominates the India Singapore relations given Singapore's strategic importance in India's 'Look East' policy. External Affairs Minister Swaraj visited Singapore on 16 August where she held talks with her counterpart Shanmugam and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong regarding Singapore's investment in India and their potential role in Modi's pet smart cityproject.Earlier Modi played host to Singaporean Minister for Foreign and Law K. Shanmugam where he recalled his policies as Gujarat chief minister to expand cooperation between the two countries in, amongst others, public housing for the middle and lower classes based on Singapore's expertise.The former Singaporean prime minister, Goh Chok Tong, visited India on 10 September and held several high-level meetings with the Indian prime minister and other ministers; later in conversation with a selected members from the media he referred to the former Indian prime minister, Vajpeyee, as a scholar, but Modi is a "Man of Action", while reassuring once again his country's full cooperation on the smart city project.AustraliaPrime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia was the first head of government to make a state visit to India in Modi government which shows the importance both side attaches to their relations. The most significant event of his tour was the signing of a civil nuclear energy cooperation agreement for supplying uranium (Australia is believed to have one-third of world's total uranium reserve) to India. The nuclear deal is a further step toward India achieving international acceptability for its nuclear programme despite not ratifying the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, and follows similar agreements with the United States and France.The two side also agreed to enhance Maritime security cooperation in the Indo-pacific region and future joint naval exercise in the Indian ocean. During the joint statement following the summit Australian PM Abbott referred India as a model citizen in terms of following International guidelines justifying the nuclear deal beyond the scope of NPT and called "India the emerging democratic superpower".Security cooperationIn his address to the Australian parliament Modi made his apprehension public about maritime disputes and freedom of navigation in the oceans with a veiled reference of growing Chinese hegemony in the region. This has led to speculations among policy makers that Australia is re-joining the Malabar naval exercise amid Beijing's displeasure.Australia could join the India-US-Japan grouping, which is certain to set off alarm bells in Beijing. The issue of Australia joining the quadrilateral security dialogue was believed to be discussed at the highest level during Modi's Canberra visit on 17 November 2014.Earlier the two sides also agreed to enhance Maritime security cooperation in the Indo-pacific region and future joint naval exercise in the Indian Ocean.TaiwanAs Modi has identified economic cooperation as a major thrust area in his foreign policy and introduced policies like Make in India to invite foreign direct investment (FDI) in manufacturing sector, Taiwan was one of the first to respond to his call. India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) and Taipei Computer Association signed memorandum of understanding for local manufacturing of semiconductors and electronics, even there are plans to set up 'Taiwanese hardware park' in about 200-300 acres of land.Although India was among the first few countries to recognize PRC therefore jeopardizing relation with the island but later developed an official relation with ROC which it maintains through India-Taipei AssociationITA a De facto embassy in Taipei.And the latest 3 nations visit-Breaking down PM Narendra Modi’s three-nation tour

NO. Solar power has proven an abject failure as an alternative to fossil fuels, notwithstanding massive subsidies world wide. Wind and solar cannot provide electricity without the assistance of fossil fuels as back up to cover for intermittency.Solar farms subsidies in the UK exceed the value of the electricity they produce.Fossil fuels are here to stay and energy markets ignore wind and solar making the vast government subsidies a vast waste.I agree with the critique by Michael Moore’s just released docu that the favorite alternative energies of the green movement - wind and solar are not green at all and much worse than fossil fuels. They are in fact a scam not providing the benefits they claim.We must accept the reality of intermittency and double costing when governments foolishly invest in these renewable.We must accept the waste and cost in coal and fossil fuels needed to build these ugly monstrosities.We must accept the reality building a wind and solar plants would take up valuable land to the point of absurdity if the goal is total replacement of fossil fuels.MICHAEL MOORE : ‘Green Energy Is A Scam’Posted: April 22, 2020 | Author: Jamie Spry |Planet of the Humans | By Jeff Gibbs, Executive Producer Michael Moore“The documentary does a good jobat proving that conservativeswere right to say that green energy is a scam““This urgent, must-see movie,a full-frontal assault on our sacred cows,is guaranteed to generate anger, debate.”Declares Wind And Solar Energies A “Fata Morgana” …”Powerless And Expensive”!Top Danish Economist Bjoern Lomborg Declares Wind And Solar Energies A “Fata Morgana” …”Powerless And Expensive”!By P Gosselin on25. October 2015The German online Die Welt here has a commentary on wind energy by Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg. The title of his guest commentary: “Wind energy, powerless and expensive“.Hat-tip Peter H at Facebook.Wind and sun energy are often viewed by fossil fuel critics as the go-to green energies. But careful analyses show that these energies are in reality impractical due to their haphazard supply and very poor efficiency. Most wind installations fail to reach 20% of their rated capacities; sun only provides power when it’s daytime and not cloudy. The figures that Lomborg presents are sobering, inconvenient and totally discouraging for wind and sun power proponents.Citing the International Energy Agency, Lomborg writes so far today only 0.4% of global energy comes from wind and sun, despite the tens of billions of dollars invested in the energy sources. He adds:Even in 2040, if all governments stick to their promises, sun and wind will cover only 2.2 percent of the world’s energy by 2040.”Lomborg says that the reason why sun and wind will be “no decisive solution against climate change” is the energies’ inability to be effectively stored. He calls the belief that the energies are cheaper than fossil fuels a “Fata Morgana”.The problem remains that storage technologies today are cumbersome, horrendously expensive and thus unfeasible. Wind and sun remain a luxury for the rich. Lomborg explains to readers how wind energy are dependent on subsidies, and that without them they make no sense. The Danish star economist points out that not only do wind and sun need subsidies, but now also so do fossil fuel plants so that they can remain on standby when the wind and sun go AWOL. He also says that wind and sun only save about half of the claimed CO2 emissions, and that under some circumstances they actually cause greater emissions.$131 trillion for 1°C less warmingHe writes the planned expansion of green energies by the year 2040 will cost 2.3 trillion dollars and result in only in a mere 0.o175 °C less temperature rise by the end of the century (using the climate forcing figures provided by the climate models).That means 1°C of theoretical less warming would cost 131 trillion dollars! If there ever was a new definition for insanity, that’s it.Top Danish Economist Bjoern Lomborg Declares Wind And Solar Energies A “Fata Morgana” …”Powerless And Expensive”!Analysis Shows Wind And Solar Power In Europe Is On Average 16 Times More Expensive Than Gas-Fired Power!By P Gosselin on8. February 2015Charting the costs and effectiveness of renewable energy in Europe A comparison of both the capital cost and energy production effectiveness of renewable energy in Europe. By Ed Hoskins (Some editing by P Gosselin) The diagrams below show the cost and capacity factors of the major European renewable energy power sources: onshore and offshore wind farms […]Serial Exaggerator Al Gore Loses All Sense Of Reality…Exaggerates German Wind And Solar Power 178%By P Gosselin on22. June 2014When listening to Al Gore’s numbers and figures, we really do need to worry that he may have completely lost his sense of reality. Otherwise we can only conclude that he is a stunningly unscrupulous fraud. Image cropped from: Rush Limbaugh site. In Gore’s self-imagined climate-crisis world, global temperatures are accelerating, the center of the […]Search results for "wind and solar"April 22, 2020Michael Moore stumbles upon the truth about so-called 'green' energyBy Andrea WidburgMICHAEL MOORE : ‘Green Energy Is A Scam’New Michael Moore-backed doc examines "false promise" of renewable energyimage credit: Featureflash Photo Agency / http://Shutterstock.MY COMMENT PUBLISHED BY THE DELINGPOLE STORYjamesmatkinwritings PERMALINKApril 24, 2020 4:47 pmMoore is right to bring down wind and solar as alternatives to fossil fuels and surely the collateral damage to the Paris Accord falls as well. The gang up in Paris on CO2 by tax happy governments was always two step. Get rid of fossil fuels so clean energy(??) would take over. This means if the second step is gone then the first step of crushing fossil fuels is madness. Time to endorse the 90 Leading Italian Scientists Petition urging governments that there is no climate crisis –“In conclusion, given the CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE THAT FOSSIL FUELS have for the energy supply of humanity, we suggest that they should not adhere to policies of uncritically reducing carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere with THE ILLUSORY PRETENSE OF CONTROLLING THE CLIMATE.”90 Leading Italian Scientists Sign Petition: CO2 Impact On Climate “UNJUSTIFIABLY EXAGGERATED” … Catastrophic Predictions “NOT REALISTIC”MAIN DELINGPOLE STORY -Career Climate Skeptic James Delingpole: punchablefaces.Simple. Moore has backed the most powerful, brutally honest and important documentary of his career. It’s also by far his bravest because it not only confronts the modern left’s greatest shibboleth — “clean” energy — but it does indeed offer a great deal of succour to Moore’s avowed enemy President Donald Trump.It might even help Trump clinch the next presidential election for it undermines the entire basis of the Green New Deal being pushed in one form or another by his opponents. Renewable energy, the documentary makes abundantly clear, is not the solution to the problem — but an even bigger problem than the one it is supposedly solving.The documentary was directed by Jeff Gibbs, who, like Moore, is very much a man of the left. Gibbs was a producer and composer on Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine. In his youth, he was the kind of committed, long-haired eco activist who sabotages diggers by putting sugar in their gas tanks.And it’s this left-wing, activist background of Gibbs and Moore which makes the movie’s message so much more compelling.Renewable energy, it tells us, is not clean energy but dirty energy because it does tremendous damage to the environment. The people who make money out of it are the worst kind of crony-capitalists. Anyone who claims to believe otherwise is either an idiotic dupe or a wicked liar.90 Leading Italian Scientists Sign Petition: CO2 Impact On Climate “UNJUSTIFIABLY EXAGGERATED” … Catastrophic Predictions “NOT REALISTIC”INTERMITTENCY IS THE STUMBLING BLOCK FOR RENEWABLESThe heart of the matter is the intermittency of wind and solar when the wind does not blow and sun does not shine at the most inopportune times. The hope was for new battery storage technology to cover the gap. This is not happening. Sadly, I have personal experience working as a director with two truly innovative new battery technology start ups. Both have struggled for 5 years and counting and no light at the end of the tunnel. See the reason -The Battery Cycle – Setting the Record StraightBy Anthony Milewski, Chairman, Cobalt 27March 7, 2019in Technology Metals Edition InsightHow long does it take from a scientific breakthrough to commercial battery production? From discovery of a new material to inclusion into a chemistry to wide spread commercial use can take between 10 and 20 years. The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research has come up with a matrix for thinking about the actual time it takes for this process:·Scientific discovery of a new material(s) or process. There is no time frame for this.·New class of material synthesized. Scientists may spend one to two years on this step.·Prove performance of the half cell. Between two to five years.·Proven performance of lab scale fuel cells. Between two to five years.·Material scale-up, cell testing, and scaling up to pack. Between five to ten years.The implications of this matrix are profound for the batteries that power EVs and should be considered by investors.The Battery Cycle – Setting the Record Straight - Anthony Milewski, Cobalt 27Flat Broke & Busted: German Wind Turbine Maker Senvion’s Spectacular Financial CollapseApril 14, 2019 by stopthesethings 4 CommentsCut the subsidies and the wind industry would disappear in a heartbeat. The business model (read ‘colossal government mandated scam’) has all the hallmarks of an enormous Ponzi scheme – the wind industry’s demise is a matter of when, not if. The withdrawal of subsidies across Europe has taken its toll, as the number of new turbines erected plummets. Twelve countries in the European Union (EU) failed to install “a single wind turbine” last year.Saddled with debt and peddling the world’s worst wind turbines hasn’t helped German turbine maker Senvion, either.Its parent, the Indian outfit Suzlon suffered India’s biggest convertible-bond default in 2012 – was seriously struggling then and isn’t in any better shape now – even a name change to “Senvion” didn’t help.In 2015, a debt-ridden Suzlon and struggling Senvion parted company, with a US firm, Centerbridge Partners throwing €1 billion at the wreckage in the hope some of it could be salvaged.Four years on and it’s clear that Senvion was terminal.Here’s a couple of pieces from Germany on only the latest renewable energy outfit to face total collapse. And the, oh so tragic ‘disaster’, has a run of serious knock-on consequences for wind farms and RE rent seekers here in Australia, as we’ll detail below…Lincoln Gap (just to the west of Port Augusta in SA) is touted as the latest thing in wind farms, with claims that it will have a bigger-than-Ben-Hur battery to account for the weather – ie the fact they can only ever deliver power around 30% of the time and at crazy, random intervals. The project was meant to comprise 59 turbines. However, at last count there are only about 8 or 10 that look anything like complete. With Senvion’s sudden and monumental collapse the chances of completing the balance of the project now, look pretty thin.Adding to our sense of delicious schadenfreude is the fact that the key backer of Nexif (the firm that owns the part finished project) is the one and only Alex Turnbull. Alex is the son of Malcolm, the Liberal PM dumped by his party for his renewable energy obsession.Alex’s relationship with the embattled wind power outfit, Infigen is the stuff of legend: Born Lucky: Stars Align Perfectly for PM’s Son with Mammoth Bet on Wind Power Outfit InfigenAs to the Singapore based Nexif and its stalled Lincoln Gap project, STT understands that Turnbull & Son went to great lengths to secure a power purchase agreement with Snowy Hydro to finance the project, along with a pile of cash from the Federal government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation. Another case of it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.Well, it seems that this is one that Daddy can’t fix in a hurry. Oh dear, how sad, never mind.Flat Broke & Busted: German Wind Turbine Maker Senvion’s Spectacular Financial CollapseSOLAR FARMS GET MILLIONS MORE IN TAXPAYER HANDOUTS THAN THEY MAKE SELLING ELECTRICITYDate: 13/05/19Daily MailTen of UK’s biggest solar farms pocketed £3million plus in eco subsidies last yearTotal cost of providing subsidies to renewables market is estimated at £7billionThe plants were encouraged to get off the ground with generous handoutsBritain’s biggest solar farms get more money in taxpayer subsidies than they make from selling the electricity they produce.The plants were encouraged to get off the ground with generous handouts, funded from ‘green taxes’ on fuel bills.Now many of them make the majority of their cash from the subsidies.Some farms have been snapped up by private firms, venture capitalists and pension funds which realise they are guaranteed money-spinners, in part because of the Government-backed handouts.But critics say the system, which often guarantees the handouts for 15 or 20 years, has been way too generous and skewed the energy market – leading to bigger household electricity bills.Dr John Constable, director of charity Renewable Energy Foundation, which publishes data on the energy sector, said: ‘The legacy entitlements are costing consumers dearly and will continue to do so for many years to come.‘In order to remain internationally competitive, the UK needs to scrape every barnacle off the hull of the economy – retrospective cuts to renewables subsidies cannot be ruled out.’Ten of the UK’s biggest solar farms pocketed £3million or more each in eco subsidies in 2017/18, statistics from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) reveal.The total cost of providing subsidies to the renewables market is estimated at around £7billion – of which about £1billion filters through to solar energy.Treasury officials ended new subsidies to solar farms in 2014 but existing farms are still guaranteed generous handouts until the end of their contracts.Solar Farms Get Millions More in Taxpayer Handouts Than They Make Selling ElectricityMikeWW, Grand Rapids, United States, 11 months agoSolar energy companies consume more energy in their operations than they can ever produce with their inefficient, land-hogging, toxic-chemical-laden panels. That's why they will always lose money in the free market, even if the cost of fossil fuels increases. They can only make money by feeding at the government trough.Solar farms get more in taxpayer handouts than in selling electricityWEATHER WRECKS HAVOC WITH SOLAR OUTPUT INCLUDING RAINSolar field destroyed by the weather.