The new tool is focused on helping companies who need to produce electronic documents, due to lawsuits. X1 Technologies is backed by Idealab and US Venture Partners. Tags: enterprise search software technologies ideala Pasadena-based X1 Technologies, a developer of desktop and enterprise search software, is setting its sights on the eDiscovery market, saying this morning that it has created a new offering specifically aimed at the eDiscovery market. X1 said it has built a solution, based on its X1 enterprise search technology and professional services, called X1 eDiscovery Search

EI Solutions, the solar integration startup backed by Pasadena-based Idealab, has scored a win in the City of Santa Barbara. EI Solutions is based in the Bay Area with sales offices in Pasadena, and is one of a number of energy related companies out of Idealab. Idealab's portfolio firms include Energy Innovations, focused on solar concentrators; eSolar, focused on utlity-scale solar thermal power; and Aptera Motors, a hybrid car startup. According to Tioga Energy, a renewable energy services provider, and EI Solutions, the two are building and funding a 384 kW DC solar electric system for Santa Barbara.

Pasadena-based Perfect Market, the Idealab-backed startup which is looking to help publishers monetize their underutilized and archive content, said Wednesday that it has created a new advisory board. The firm said that it has added Darshan Kantak, Chief Product Architect for Yahoo's Marketing Products Division; Larry Goodman, President of White Mountain Media; Jonah Schnel of the Ezralow Company; and Chris Muller, Director of Business Development of Synthasite, to its advisory group. Perfect Market is looking to apply search engine marketing and search engine optimization techniques to what has traditionally been considered "archive" content--for example, old advice articles from newspapers and magazines.

Pasadena-based X1 Technologies , a developer of desktop search software, announced today that the firm has raised new funding from backer Idealab, plus made a few executive changes. Size of the new investment round in the firm was not disclosed by the company. Idealab's Bill Gross also re-joins as Chairman of the firm's board of directors. X1 said that it has promoted President and COO John Waller to the position of CEO, replacing Harold "Bud" Enright, who remains on the firm's board. According to a statement by Gross, the new funding round will go to "accelerate growth" in X1.

No details on the funding have been announced by the company. According to the filing, funding included new backer Mayfield Fund, along with prior investors Idealab, Rustic Canyon Partners, and Trinity Ventures and others. Perfect Market is a spinout of Idealab. Tags: perfect market venture capital idealab Pasadena-based Perfect Market , a provider of software which enables monetization of long tail content of publishers such as newspapers, has raised $6.0M in a funding round, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm.

Pasadena-based Energy Innovations , one of the solar power firms funded by Idealab and started by Bill Gross, said Thursday afternoon that it has hired on Joseph Budano as the company's new CEO. Energy Innovations is backed by Idealab; MDV Mohr, Davidow Ventures; and Westlake Venture Partners. Tags: innovations power solar energy xantrex idealab executive photovo Budano was most recently President of the programmable power division of Xantrex Technologies. Xantrex is a major manufacturer of solar power inverters, used to convert DC solar power to AC household current.

Steve Fambro and Chris Anthony, two of the founders of Carlsbad-based Aptera , have been ousted from the company, according to a report on Wired.com today. Aptera, which is building lightweight, composite electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, is funded by Idealab and Google, among others. Wired said that Fambro and Anthony were ousted in a confrontation with the company's board, and come after recent layoffs at the Photo: Aptera's Typ-1 and co-founder Steve Fambro in better times). READ MORE>> ...Tags:

Altadena-based Perfect Market , which is backed by Idealab, said this morning that it has hired on Robertson Barrett as Chief Strategy Officer at the company. Tags: perfect market idealab software publishing content executive newspaper journalis Barrett joins from Tribune Interactive, where he was Executive Vice President heading up latimes.com, chicagotribute.com, baltimoresun.com, and the newspaper publisher's other online properties. He has also served at The FeedRoom, and was also a journalist at the News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina.

Carlsbad-based Aptera, the electric car startup backed by Google and Idealab, is delaying delivery of the firm's vehicles to customers, according to a letter to customers. In the letter, Aptera also said it would move to a non-refundable deposit on the firm's vehicle by offering additional credits to users to "lock-in" their commitments, although the firm promised to keep those deposits in escrow and had no intention of using the money to fund the company. According to Aptera, it missed its goal to deliver its first production 2e vehicles by the end of 2008, and is moving its volume production launch to October 1 of 2009.

Perfect Market said that the entire MediaRiver team, including its founder and CTO, have joined the company. Perfect Market is venture backed by Idealab, Trinity Ventures and Rustic Canyon Ventures. Pasadena-based Perfect Market, which is developing technology to help publishers monetize their archive content, said Monday that it has acquired technology from Mediariver, which can be used to match content and advertising to any web page. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.