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KPCB has already blown through much of the $600 million it raised last year

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“This could also be due to changes in the competitive landscape … and there may be changes with First Round Capital itself,” says one investor. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020. Mamoon Hamid is heading from Social Capital to Kleiner Perkins. “Mamoon is a pretty legit, good investor.

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Southern California Sees $1.9 Billion In Q1 Deals, Biggest Since Dot Com Boom

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billion in investments in Q1 of 2015, according to the latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association. MoneyTree report, which was released this evening, The quarter was the biggest, investment quarter for Southern California since the dot com era. Southern California saw a staggering $1.9

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Xconomy Special Report: 12 San Diego Tech Startup to Watch in 2017

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View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. I met with Seed San Diego partners Taner Halicioglu and Eric Gasser, who also reviewed the companies and provided their feedback.

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Voice Authentication Meets Smart Homes

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While there is already software capable of achieving some of these tasks— head to Nuance for more information on theirs—one company is hoping to be the leader when it comes to bringing this home. The home security giant is reported to have started “strategizing like a start-up” after 140 years in the industry.

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Is Airspace the New Panama Canal?

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Most of the fears are undue, but the FDA certainly has good reasons to make Amazon prove due diligence with its drone fleet. Congress passed a law called the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, which required the FAA to develop new rules governing unmanned aircraft by September 2015. FAA Modernization and Reform Act.

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How Will Apple Innovate Beyond the iPhone 7? With Next-Gen Siri

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Apple’s iPhone 7 is due out next month. The first point to acknowledge is that if the reports are right, it would be the first time Apple has departed from its traditional two-year upgrade cycle. 2015 saw the introduction of the iPhone 6s, a minor makeover of the previous year’s iPhone 6. I’ll come back to that below.)

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6 Top Trends For The Digital World In 2016

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In 2015 an additional 237 thousand joined the online community. As online viewership and behaviors grew in 2015 – the average U.S. As online viewership and behaviors grew in 2015 – the average U.S. In 2015, issues of online security and data privacy consumed headlines. Data Security Concerns Dominate.