Last spring, Page and Co. retired iGoogle, Google Mini and other services as part of a 'spring cleaning' initiative to help it better focus its efforts, and another clean-up round has just begun.
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.
The clean-energy glut was predictable, given the tendency of snow to melt in the spring and given whopping increases in the region's wind-generating capacity.