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Good Eggs raises $100M and plans to launch in Southern California

TechCrunch LA

So the team was busy enough trying to operate a new warehouse, meet increased demand for grocery delivery and keep workers safe in the process. “There’s the LA region, northern San Diego, Orange County — those areas collectively are the size of two or three Bay Areas. Image Credits: Good Eggs.

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Retailers, Startups Work to Offer Efficient E-Commerce Delivery

Xconomy

The on-demand delivery war in retail is on. The Seattle e-commerce giant told analysts the move would cost around $800 million but that didn’t appear to concern investors.

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With Cornershop, Walmart Expands On-Demand Delivery to Latin America

Xconomy

Walmart is taking the e-commerce delivery business south of the border. The Bentonville, AR, retailer announced Thursday it has acquired Cornershop, an on-demand online service that delivers products from supermarkets, pharmacies, and specialty shops in Mexico and Chile, for $225 million. “We

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Claiming a landmark in fusion energy, TAE Technologies sees commercialization by 2030

TechCrunch LA

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. Vulcan, Venrock, NEA, Wellcome Trust, Google, and the Kuwait Investment Authority are all backers.

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GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays center stage

TechCrunch LA

The company is active in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Texas, Michigan, Boston and New York (and many places in between) and says that it currently operates some 21 warehouses nationwide. Source tell us it is now between $400 million and $500 million.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. Let us know in the comments below!).

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The Five Major Tech Trends of 2016

Xconomy

While a laptop or computer’s keyboard lends itself to the relative complexity of completing a transaction – entering text details and navigating between form fields – with technology improvements in mobile commerce this is changing. Customer expectations now demand seamless and satisfying user experiences.