Here are the top cleantech stories we’re following today on the GreenBeat: SolFocus announced it will build the first and largest concentrated photovoltaic solar system in Saudi Arabia,  delivering around 300 megawatt-hours of energy… Tweet This Post

Facebook announced this morning that it is launching a new feature, the Friendship Page. The Friendship Page will display public Wall posts and comments between two friends, photos in which both are tagged, Events they RSVP’d for together and other information… Tweet This Post

The Vermont Energy Company attracted a $260,000 seed investment a new SEC filing revealed to grow their environmental-minded gas station and convenience store business. Currently, the company operates a flagship store and four-pump gas station in Burlington, Vermont… Tweet This Post

Facebook is rolling out a new breed of Pages called Friendship Pages that pull together the public wall posts, comments, photos (based on tags) and events that two friends have in common.The Friendship Pages feature was cooked up by Facebook software engineer Wayne Kao and then brought to life in an internal hackathon event… Tweet [...]

Apple filed its annual report with the SEC yesterday (a “10K,” in Wall Street-speak). Allow us to summarize it for you: This is one hell of a company. Don’t believe us?Check out 15 amazing facts from Apple’s 10K >Join the conversation about this story » Tweet This Post

Hate moving your body? Sony’s been selling a 320GB PS3 bundled with a Move controller, PlayStation Eye, and Sports Champions for $400, but for you layabouts the 320GB model will soon be available all by itself… Tweet This Post

HTML5, the emerging markup standard for Web development, will be the “lingua franca” for websites and applications, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said this morning. Tweet This Post

(Editor’s note: Greg Collier is the founder and CEO of Geebo.com. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.) Some of the most widely used sites on the Internet are attracting negative attention these days for neglecting to attend to the user experience… Tweet This Post

Google and Samsung may be announcing a “Nexus Two” smartphone at the mysterious press conference being held on November 8th in New York City. The conference will feature the launch of a “new Android device,” which is now suspected to be the next Google experience phone, meaning a phone featuring the latest hardware and most [...]

After much hullabaloo, Google and the Federal Trade Commission have kissed and made up. This, only a few days after Google admitted to “accidentally” collecting people’s private data with its Street View cars… Tweet This Post

We know that users are spending increasing amounts of time online on social networks like Facebook, but when exactly are users the most active? Social media management company Vitrue just released a study that identifies the days and hours users are most active on the Facebook channels maintained by companies and brands… Tweet This Post

With digital becoming a bigger part of Universal Music Group’s revenues in all parts of the world, the company is promoting Rob Wells to president of Global Digital Business, a new position. For Wells, formerly SVP for digital, this is a formal expansion of what he’s essentially been doing: striking partnerships and finding other ways [...]