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The $$$ in Team
The X Prize Foundation and Google have just announced a $20 million prize for the first team who can land a robot on the moon without the support of any government. This is the latest of several prizes offered by the twelve-year-old non-profit foundation, including its first, a $10 million...
Tags: Jeff Palfini, Prize, Team, Strategy, X Prize, X Prize Foundation, Team management
Blog posts 2007-09-13
X PRIZE Foundation to Announce Largest International Prize in History
What: The X PRIZE Foundation will announce a new prize in the tens of millions of dollars, the largest international prize in history, ...
Tags: Wired Inc., X PRIZE Foundation
Research articles 2007-09-10
Five Reasons WellPoint's $10M Healthcare Competition Won't Work
So now the health-insurance provider WellPoint has put up $10 million for a new X Prize -- one that promises the money to anyone who can figure out a new way to fix the healthcare system. The X Prize Foundation is the same organization that created similar prize competitions in...
Tags: Health Care, WellPoint, X Prize Foundation, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton
Blog posts 2008-10-16

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Ansari X Prize Foundation President to Address the Dawn of the New Space Age on Capitol Hill
News Advisory: WHAT: A briefing by Ansari X Prize Foundation President Dr. Peter Diamandis on the successful X Prize Competition, the launch of Zero Gravity Corp. and the current and future space tourism market. WHO: Dr. Peter Diamandis, president, Ansari X Prize Foundation WHERE: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building WHEN:...
Tags: Dr., IEEE, MARKETING, president
Research articles 2004-11-12
X PRIZE Foundation to Host Anousheh Ansari, First Female Private Space Explorer, as the First-Ever Blogger from Space; Exclusive Interviews, Podcasts and Video Also Available During This Unique Web Experience
LOS ANGELES -- The X PRIZE Foundation announced today that www.xprize.org will host the first-ever blog from space during Anousheh Ansari's historic flight to the International Space Station. The webpage was designed by the X PRIZE Foundation, a nonprofit prize institute in partnership with Prodea Systems, the revolutionary digital home...
Tags: Blogger, exclusive interview, podcast, video, Web
Research articles 2006-09-13
X PRIZE Foundation Takes Next Step Toward $2 Million Lunar Lander Challenge
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- The X PRIZE Foundation XPF is moving forward with plans to offer a $2 million Lunar Lander Challenge LLC by releasing draft rules of the competition today, making them available for public comment. The LLC was originally introduced in a Letter of Intent executed between...
Tags: E-mail, Leadership, NASA, Strategy
Research articles 2006-02-22
The X PRIZE Foundation and Holloman AFB Announce Partnership to Present World's Largest Air & Space Flight Demonstration
New Partnership, Venue and Program Expansion Expected to Draw an 8-Fold Increase in Competing Teams and Crowds to This Year's Wirefly X PRIZE Cup in Southern New Mexico LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- Today, the X PRIZE Foundation and Holloman Air Force Base HAFB announced a partnership intended to create...
Tags: Air Force, FINANCE, Northrop Grumman Corp., partnership
Research articles 2007-04-26
NASA and the X PRIZE Foundation Recognize 2007 Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award Winners
The winners of a national space-oriented high school competition, the Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award, were recognized today in a ceremony at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. To highlight the efforts of the students, the X PRIZE Foundation and NASA unveiled a new exhibit which will travel around the...
Tags: innovation, NASA, team
Research articles 2008-01-18
X PRIZE Foundation to Present Energy and Environment Thought Leaders at MIT
What: The X PRIZE Foundation, an educational non-profit that designs and administers competitions with prizes of $10 million or more, and the Massachusetts...
Tags: Dr., environment, leader, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, RSVP
Research articles 2008-08-20
Media Alert: X PRIZE Foundation to Present Energy and Environment Thought Leaders at MIT
What: The X PRIZE Foundation, an educational non-profit that designs and administers competitions with prizes of $10 million or more, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT are jointly ...
Tags: Dr., environment, leader, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, RSVP
Research articles 2008-08-27
Space Elevator Games to take place at the 2006 X PRIZE Cup in New Mexico
LOS ANGELES -- The X PRIZE Foundation and the Spaceward Foundation have signed an agreement that will bring the Space Elevator Games, a NASA Centennial Challenge, to the X PRIZE Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico. More than 20 teams are expected to compete for $400,000 at the Las Cruces...
Tags: agreement, elevator, Games, NASA, ribbon, Transportation
Research articles 2006-08-08
Google Sponsors Lunar X PRIZE to Create a Space Race for a New Generation
The X PRIZE Foundation and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million prize purse. Private companies from around the world will compete to land a privately funded robotic rover on the Moon that...
Tags: Google Inc.
Research articles 2007-09-13
Attractions at the 2007 Wirefly X PRIZE Cup
The 2007 Wirefly X PRIZE Cup is the first ever Air & Space Expo with "live" fire / fly demonstrations and competitions. The X PRIZE Foundation and Holloman Air Force Base have teamed up for this historic event -- not a moment will go by where an airplane or rocket...
Tags: Air Force, attraction, E-mail, FINANCE, Manufacturing, NASA
Research articles 2007-10-03
Mirror Image Selected to Webcast Private Space Travel Race for $10 Million ANSARI X PRIZE
WOBURN, Mass. & MOJAVE, Calif. -- -- SpaceShipOne's First Launch to Draw Online Spectators Worldwide -- Mirror ImageR Internet, an adaptive network for online content, application and transaction delivery, today announced that the X PRIZE Foundation has chosen Mirror Image to Webcast SpaceShipOne's first private space flight for the...
Tags: Mirror Image Internet Inc.
Research articles 2004-09-27
United States Senate Passes a Resolution Praising the Automotive X PRIZE
Senators Richard Lugar (R-IN) and Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), along with Senators Carl Levin (D-MI), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), and Pete Domenici (R-NM), today led the passage of a Senate resolution congratulating the X PRIZE Foundation's leadership in inspiring a new generation of viable, super-efficient vehicles. The Senate resolution follows an earlier...
Tags: U.S. Senate
Research articles 2008-03-14
X Prize Foundation Delays Decision on Where to Locate Space Tourism Site.
By Steve Ramirez, Las Cruces Sun-News, N.M. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 19--New Mexico will have to wait about another month to find out its chances of becoming the state where space tourism could begin. A decision to locate the $10...
Tags: Florida, Gomez Advisors Inc., Manufacturing
Research articles 2004-03-19
X PRIZE Foundation Challenges Innovation at SAE Congress
AUBURN HILLS, Mich., March 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The non- profit foundation that created a prize to inspire the world's first private spaceship believes that this same spirit of ingenuity can be applied to the automobile industry. AUBURN HILLS, Mich., March 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The non- profit foundation that...
Tags: U.S. Congress
Research articles 2006-03-31
Space Florida Announces Strategic Partnership with the X PRIZE Foundation to Make Florida the First Preferred Launch Site for the Google Lunar X PRIZE Competition
Grand Prize Winner will receive $2M Bonus Prize for Successful Florida Based Launch.
Tags: Google Inc.
Research articles 2008-02-21
They Should Have Called It the U-Prize…As In, U Innovate, We’ll Appropriate
The past few years has seen the emergence of the X Prize Foundation and their series of challenges that spur teams to achieve a preset goal in exchange for a cash prize â€" goals like landing a private spaceflight on the moon or designing an ultra-fuel-efficient car. Corporate sponsors like...
Tags: Jeff Palfini, Cisco Systems Inc., Team
Blog posts 2007-11-02
Google offers $20M as moon rover prize
Nearly 40 years after the U.S. beat the Soviets to the moon, Internet giant Google said Thursday it will give $20 million to the first private group to land a roving robot on the lunar surface. The purse is being offered by the X Prize Foundation,...
Tags: co-founder, Google Inc., Government, INTERNET, MARKETING, NASA, Robots, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2007-09-14
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