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LA, and Southern California's Surge In Venture Capital Funds

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Investment interests: Consumer Internet, eCommerce, enterprise software, cloud computing, financial technology, advertising technology. Fund size: $250M growth fund Los Angeles Partners: Dana Settle, Mark Terbeek, Dylan Pearce, Paul Bricault, Jon Goldman. Section 32. www.section32.com. Fund size: $230M fund. Watertower Ventures.

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SoCal's Big New Crop Of Venture Investors And Funds

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Managing Director: Derek Norton Investment interests: Connected consumer, Internet infrastructure, next generation e-commerce, digital media, gaming, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, consumer Internet, and some ad tech. Watertower Ventures. www.watertowerventures.com) Fund size: $5M. Fika Ventures. Fund size: $40M. www.amplify.la.

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Why Amazon Is the Undisputed E-Commerce Growth Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

From meager beginnings selling books online back in 1994, Amazon is currently the largest e-commerce retailer and cloud computing platform in the world, and now dominates even the giant Walmart. Everyone wants to grow and innovate like Amazon these days.

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Amazon Expands Tech Hub In San Diego

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Online e-commerce giant Amazon announced this morning that it is expanding at its "tech hub" in San Diego, and plans to create 300 new high tech jobs at the location.

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Ford’s Autonomic Pairs With Alibaba Cloud On Mobility Hub for China

Xconomy

Ford’s recently acquired unit Autonomic , which co-created the automaker’s Transportation Mobility Cloud (TMC), inked a deal Tuesday to partner with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing division of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. The power of the web increased dramatically and “Cloud Computing&# began to take a huge leap forward. I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced.

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What We Must Learn from Asia

Both Sides of the Table

In the past 6 months we’ve heard from Dmitry Shapiro on the future of online video, Ian Rogers on the future music model, David Sacks on the future of social networking and Michael Crandell on where Cloud Computing is headed. Mobile ARPU = a staggering $110 / month for content and commerce alone (slide 88).

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