الأحد، 31 يناير 2016

venture investors funding early stage telecom start ups upto $5-$20million






the biggest IPO's by industry and size

Chinese internet and online shopping giant Alibaba's IPO was the biggest IPO in the history if financial markets. The number 2 biggest IPO was Votorantim Cimentos followed by Citizen Financial group , which is ranked number 3 The IPO of .Syncrony Financial  was the 4th largest, thereby making the fintech industry  the highest number of record setting initial public offering ,IPO history.







early stage uk vc investors looking to fund start ups upwards of $50 million

The list below shows the to 6 united kingdom based venture capital investors who invests across early start ups ,funding within a range from $5 million to $500 million .



Venture Capital Firms | FindTheCompany :Top 10 VC investors in UK for early stage start ups


السبت، 30 يناير 2016

with 51% increase in users amazon web services sales see 100% growth





Data curated by FindTheCompany
Amazon announced earnings for Q4 2015 recently At the close of the market, with Amazon's showing  EPS of $1 and revenue of $35.7 billion both came in below analyst estimates.
Net sales from Amazon Web Services came in at $2.4 billion, up from $1.4 billion the previous year, and the company reported a 51% growth in prime users.

mergers and acquisitions in the online casino industry




"mergers and acquisitions in the online casino industry"

mergers and acquisitions in the online casino industry



english football club Chelsea revenues vs player fees

"comparing chelsea players salaries"


Englisg football club CHELSEA and its earnings from revenues from commercials, broadcasters and match  day fees are included.The cost of player salary contracts by  along with their weeky wages are compared in the 2nd chart

"english football club Chelsea revenues vs match fees of players"

Revenue of Chelsea compared with Real Madrid, Arsenal, Man U, Bayern Munic,Juventus 



21% marketing budgets by small business spent on social, facebook spends reach 60%

Social media saw higher adoption among small and business with business owners setting up specific budgets for social media marketing.



" 73% of small and medium business now use social media"


BIA Kelsey research data shows that 73% of small and medium business now use social media , with over 20% having specific budget for social web marketing

الجمعة، 29 يناير 2016

sports market size in north america to exceed $70 billion by 2018

How much is the north american sports market worth. This chart takes behind the scenes on media rights, sponsorship details and break up of sports revenue 


"sports market size in north america is set t exceed $70 billion by 2018"
North American Sports market in 2015 was worth $63 billion and is expected to exceed $70 billion by 2018, while 2016 sports market will be a $65 billion giant monster. Out of this  gate revenues and media rights account for around 60% of the total revenues followed by sponsorships and merchandising , 

the top 10 movers and shakers of seo and blogging

"The best  and most influential bloggers on search marketing"

The best  and most influential bloggers on search marketing





fashion luxury brands ranked by instagram followers

This infographic shows the biggest luxury fashion brand based on their number of instagram followers.

"number one ranked luxury fashion brand"
THE NUMBER ONE LUXURY BRAND WITH HIGHEST INSTAGRAM  FOLLOWERS

Number 2 luxury fashion brand

"Number 3 biggest luxury fashion brand"

dolce gabbana is the no 4 ranked luxury fashion by instagram followers













Most Popular Luxury Brands By Number Of Followers . The biggest social media star in the luxury fashion market is  powerhouse  is Channel with 9.8million Instagram folowers

Louis Vuitton , ranks number two.. Sure having celebrities like Miranda Kerr and Selena Gomez  endorsing the products does help .Currently Louis Vuitton has over 9,2million followers

The number 3  biggest social media brand by followers is Dior  with 8.4 million followers on  instagram

Dolce & Gabbana with 7.8 million instagram followers ranks number 4

Gucci with 7.1 million instagram followers rank number 5

Christian Louboutin  with 6.8million followers rank number 6


investment across the financial technology by deal size and valuations






more than $146billion marketing dollars set to be spend on targeting local media 2016








global upsurge in venture funding reached all time high: 10 charts that tell the story




الخميس، 28 يناير 2016

with 24% job growth,hyderabad becomes fastest job generating indias city

" Marketing among the highest in demand jobs in India "


Marketing among the highest in demand jobs in India
 

Hyderabad's 24% job growth compared to other indian cities average of 7%"

Hyderabad among leading cities in india with fastest job growth( 24% as opposed to average 7% for top 5 Indian cities



"industry sectors Telecom,IT and BPO is recruiting at a all time high"

Telecom, IT and BPO among highest industry verticals with highest recruitment

SOURCE :NAUKRI


wall street selects its top 5 retail stocks

"amazon the number one brand for wall street"



Generally wall street is  not known  to pick their winners.Wall street does not reason  a spectacular quarter, or even an excellent 3 quarters.. The stock markets hates "suprises " and for that reason not many  brands  that might have once upon a time, media's poster boy.failed to  to satisfy wall street

However !It  now seems  that wall street has decided  and finally given it a thumbs up to the online retail industry and specially  Amazon. The company dominated Black Friday sales in the United States and is all but certain to be the number 1 source for last minute presents for many million people around the world. Amazon’s stock price more than doubled this year, bringing the company’s market cap to more than $300 billion. 

In contrast Wall street has given the brick and mortar retailers  like  Best Buy and Walmart  a pass,  and almost all of them has seen their stocks massacred and  crumble in 2015 as they struggle to break Amazon’s dominance in the online world.

revenue wise rank of global auto suppliers : top 10 List




"leading auto component supplier list by revenues"

top 20  global auto component supplier list

The chart from statista shows global auto suppliers ranking by their revenue split.German companies continental and Bosch with automotive segment revenue of around 33.3 billion euros takes the top 2 ranking ,while Canadian company Magna ranked 3rd with around $30billion revenues .

US statewise contribution to hillary clinton for her election bid in 2016

which state in united states are the biggest contributor for funds  for Hillary Clinton . To know the details , hover your mouse onto  different US states..The contributions from each states  will be shown as you move along the country state by state 



which 5 states are contributing highest to donald trump's funds

These are the US states that are the regions which makes up the bulk of the supporters of Donal Trump. These 5 states are up the drumming up the highest funds for Donald Trump



These 5 states are  the biggest contributor to Donald Trumps fundraising.Data shown is for contributions from individuals of $200 or more.

donald trump vs presidential candidates: How trump is dominating social media




Compartiendo Wifi con Netduino Plus 2

Después de tener todo listo para empezar, hay algo obviamente que en nuestra ruta falta y es darle salida a internet a nuestro Netduino, de todas las primera aventuras esta fue para mi la más complicada, la información está en todos los foros, pero al ser conversaciones y reportes de errores es un poco demorado entender a que se refieren.

Por otro lado mi PC tiene algo en particular y es que debido a que uso varias máquinas virtuales para trabajar con dispositivos móviles, me todo un ratito entender que era lo que debia configurar para poder usar la Wifi en casa con mi Netduino.

Los tradicional es conectar desde tu modem de internet un cable a tu netduino, sin embargo si como en mi caso eso significa cablear tu casa, este post podría ser también tu solución. Esto además de que al irse de casa a hacer un demo, depender de la red de cada lugar es una mala idea y a mano solo tenemos el plan de datos del móvil o bien la conexión de nuestro portatil a alguna red por ahí.

Lo primero que necesitas es un cable cruzado, reconocerlo es tan simple como comparar sus extremos, si la distribución de colores es diferente, ya lo tienes.

Ahora vamos a entrar a las opciones de red de nuestro Panel de Control y buscar la configuración de los adaptadores de red.

Este era el escenario al que me enfrentaba en mi PC


Lo primero es claramente identificar la red a compartir, en mi caso no era la Wifi directamente si no el Virtual Switch que tiene el nombre de mi conexión de red en casa (Yadira). Debes dar click derecho y entrar a las propiedades, y allí ingresar a la pestaña de compartir.

En mi caso debía seleccionar tambien el Virtual Switch de mi Ethernet y no la Ethernet directamente, que de hecho ni aparece. Después de eso la red aparece como compartida, tu internet debe seguir funcionando normalmente.


Ahora viene la parte que en realidad cuesta un poco poner a punto, pero que es necesario memorizar debido a que cada vez que desconectemos nuestras redes todo volverá a sus valores por defecto.

Después decodificar las recomendaciones en los foros estos fueron los pasos que realicé y únicos que me funcionaron, no desesperes, la red puede morir, enloquecer, vuelve al punto cero e inicia de nuevo, no pierdas la cabeza.

Ejecuta el comando IPCONFIG en la Consola de Comandos


Esto es importante pues necesitamos saber cual es el Gateway de nuestra Wifi. Ahora buscamos el Virtual Switch al cual le compartimos la Wifi e ingresamos a sus propiedades

Dentro de las propiedades editamos la configuración de IPv4


Allí configuramos una IP para nuestra subred, y configuramos el Gateway de la Wifi manualmente.


Ahora como vimos antes, entramos a nuestra configuración de red del Netduino y configuramos la IP teniendo en cuenta que el Gateway en este caso será la IP estática que asignamos a nuestro adaptador de red Ethernet en el paso anterior.

En este punto si quieres validar que todo va bien, presiona el botón de la board para resetear el Netduino y entonces deberás ver como muestra la IP que tiene asignada al iniciarse.


Como último paso de verificación, haz un ping a las IP estáticas que configuraste y si todo va bien, ambas responderán correctamente.



Para terminar de validar que nuestro Netduino tiene salida a internet debemos hacer un proyecto y probarlo, pero eso será en el siguiente post.


Fuente de la imagen de la cabecera: https://ciscoccvp.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/t1-crossover-cable/

western europe instore retail sales by country breakup:




"western europe retail sales by country breakup: "

Western europe retail sales by country breakup: 

UK, Germany and Sweden tops western europe retail sales ( except the items autos , gas tickets, holiday and travel bookings). The latest data from Europe's centre for retailresearch compares the   retail sales by European nations by year 2014 and 2015

الأربعاء، 27 يناير 2016

for the first time in a decade apple's iphone sales hits speedbreaker

"iphone hits speed breakers "

Apple announced a sharp slowdown in sales growth for its iPhone


Apple's  honeymoon period with its most successful product, iPhone  seems to be finally over, with the company reporting " flat sales in a clear indication of  iPhone's  slowest growth since the product's 2007 launch  as Apple  warned investors that "sales will fall for the first time later this year.


"sales of ihome was at roughly 74.6 and 74.8 million in Q3 2014 and Q32015"


The company sold 74.8m of its flagship devices in the final three months of 2015, compared to  74.46m iPhones  it told during the same period in 2014.. which points to the fact that : iPhone sales has now plateaued 

Apple's fundamentalas as a company is beyond comparison and its  one of the most cash rich company in the world with assets totalling $293bn, with $205bn of that in cash.
However the worrying point for apple, is that the company is dependent on the iPhone magic wand more than it should do as it created more volatility and risk for the company something that wall street will not like 


  • Apple's ipads meanwhile have been shrinking for more than 18 months. Apple sold 16.1million iPads in the last three months of 2015, down from 21.4m tablets in the same quarter last year.
  • Mac sales too, declined  with Apple selling 4% fewer  ending up with 5.3 million sales (YoY)
  • Apple Watch, grew sharply to $4.4bn, up from $2.6bn in the third quarter of 2015 (when the company first reported Watch sales). 
  • Other products in the category include Beats accessories, Apple Pay and Apple TV 


British startup brings Internet of Things to tabletop gaming

London-based game developer Sensible Object this week launched its first game, which combines the Internet of Things with tabletop gaming. Launching via a Kickstarter campaign, Fabulous Beasts is both a physical and digital game, designed for adults and children alike.

Fabulous Beasts is cooperative, where players build a tower on their tabletop out of  beast-shaped pieces, and see them simultaneously appear in a 'fabulous' world on the screen of a connected iOS or Android device.

As the tower grows, the on-screen ecosystem evolves. But if the tower falls, it’s game over – like a modern-day Jenga.


What's inside?


Behind the vivid design there's some serious tech: inside the base is a RFID reader, which reads unique IDs in each game piece. There's also a weight sensor - when a piece is scanned, the hardware knows the weight to expect to be added to the tower. Like the infamous “Unexpected item in bagging area” warning at supermarket self-checkouts. Finally, there’s a Bluetooth module, which sends the data to a connected device.

The game was developed at Makerversity at Somerset House. Makerversity provides affordable space, tools and cutting edge workshop facilities to startups like Sensible Object.

CEO and founder of Sensible Object, Alex Fleetwood, says: “We want to look at what happens when you use new technology to pull attention away from screens and back into the room, and the people you’re playing with. Fabulous Beasts is a big step towards realising that.”

The studio will be taking Fabulous Beasts into full production ready for final release towards the end of 2016. You can back the Kickstarter project here.


2016 presidential candidate creating the highest buzz on facebook



"which US 2016 presidential election candidate has highest facebook buzz"

2016 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CANDIDATE WITH HIGHEST FACEBOOK BUZZ



Among all the US 2016 presidential candidates in US, across both Republicans and Democrats  who is creating the  highest buzz on Facebook. ? This chart by  Wall Street Journal Shows its Mrs Rodham Hillary Clinton, who  is having the final word when it comes to interactions on Facebook .With 8 million interactions in just under a month she is right there on the top followed by Ted Cruz, Rand Paul,Scott Walker, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie  and Ben Carson .. all of them have had  between 2 to 4 million interactions. With the exception of  Ted Cruz  who is ranked no 2 after Hillary  having reached the highest with 4.84 millon interactions on Facebook


الثلاثاء، 26 يناير 2016

obamacare at crossroads as insurance co-ops set to be abandoned


"obamacare health co ops plan now at crossroads"


AMOUNT OF LOAN PROVIDED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO SET UP THE HEALTHCARE INSURANCE CO OPS




A new breed of health insurers created under the Obama Affordable Care Act — was intended to create non-profit insurers is  on its last legs now ,with several of the ventures forced to close down around the  country. President Obama's much vaunted Obamacare — is on shaky financial ground in many of the 23 states where the plans began.

The nonprofit health plans were envisioned as a consumer-friendly counterweight to for-profit insurers, a way to provide more competition, greater consumer choice and better coverage in markets typically dominated by big commercial carriers. The government allocated billions of dollars in loans for them, Insurance co ops under health law received $1.17billion  in federal loans , which the government said its  working on recouping the funds

countries with per user highest spends on internet shopping

nations average spends on ecommerce"


NORWAY,UNITED STATES AND AUSTRALIA  lead among the nations whose users spends highest on ecommerce per user .Norwegians ranks 1st with $209 spends per user per year

50% global digital ad spending is accounted by us and china


 GOBAL DIGITAL MARKETING AD SPENDS BY TOP 5 BIGGEST MARKETS

US and China accounts for more than 50% of digital ad spending budgets with a total of $73billion  shared between the 2 nations last year. According to emarketer out of  a total of $146billion  digital spending  which is presently shared between   biggest top 5 digital markets of the world, which includes  Japan ,UK, Germany apart from US and China

الاثنين، 25 يناير 2016

spain,uk,ireland and portugal among europe's fastest growing ad makets



YEAR ON YEAR AD GROWTH 2015 VS 2016


The latest data from Carat, the leading global media network reflects continued optimism on its updated forecasts for worldwide advertising expenditure in 2015 and 2016, 
global advertising spends across Top 10  markets of western  europe is likely to remain positive  and will see solid growth across Digital and Mobile  channels 

 Western Europe returned to positive territory in 2014, with +2.8% growth. In 2015, a similar growth rate of +2.6%  was  forecast with a further increase of +2.9% predicted for 2016.

The European markets showing the highest growth in the region this year and in 2016 are Spain, UK, Ireland and Portugal,whilst in Greece advertising spend has been revised down to -12.0% from +8.0% predicted in the March 2015 report

UK : In 2016  UK market is predicted  with a year on- year growth rate of +5.5%. The 2016 UEFA European Football Championships, at which it is possible that multiple home nations may qualify, is likely to start a summer of increased spending, with the 2016 Rio Olympic Games also driving some advertising revenue.

Germany will see a further increase in advertising spend of +1.7% is predicted for 2016, with no significant impact expected to come from the 2016 UEFA European Football Championships and 2016 Rio Olympics

Spain will see a further +6.9% growth is expected in 2016

The advertising market in France is forecast to reach €10billion in 2016, with a Television  accounting for 33% share of total ad spends along with 5% increase in  digital in 2016

In 2016 Italy will see a growth of 0.7% in overall advertising. The TV market in Italy declined by 3% as print media during the first half of the year is down by -10%.

Russia  will start to recover from Q2-Q3 2016. In 2015, only digital media will show increase in spend  with +5.7% growth. Online Video is will be growing fastest with  +15% yearly growth

united kingdom accounts for 7% global vc deals, 70% growth across technology investments

"united kingdom accounts for 7% global vc deals"
VC INVESTMENT IN  UK  last year reached 3.6 billion euro  with  UK and Ireland accounting for 7% of global VC deals  in 2015. The UK tech sector received 70 per cent more funding from VCs last year, compared with 2014, with start-ups gaining just $2.1bn in 2014,according to research
based on the data from  CB Insights and London & Partners,

 However this number pales into insignificance when compared to VC investment and start up growth in US and silicon valley  miles According to the US National Venture Capital Association, $35.7bn was invested in tech companies by US venture funds in 2014 alone.



"fintech investment growth across UK venture funding"

However UK has traditionally seen increasing VC funding across  financial  technology  start ups. In 2015 Britain's financial technology( fintech)  investments has  seen significant upside  with several
funding rounds in the vertical  which included  Ebury, a group that helps small businesses trade internationally, which raised $83m; Funding Circle, the peer-to-peer lender, which raised $150m; and WorldRemit, a money transfer group, which raised $100 million

UK's  strength has been its proximity with the financial centre of London, where it scores over " the silicon valley's software power centre

french venture funds that funds up to $5million across early stage local start ups

Here is the complete list of French VC start ups that " provide  funding to ocal french start ups to the tune of $5 million  . This list had been published by Andy Romans at Rubicon.  This list is not final list, there might be some other VC which we missed out. In case you wish your " VC " firm to get listed, you can tweet me at twitter.com/aerosmith071 or send me a mail at sumit_roy74@hotmail.com



1CDC EntreprisesParis, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 1,92321
2CM-CIC Capital PriveParis, FranceInvestment BankUS$ 37313
3Amundi SAParis, FranceUS$ 826,68412
4Credit Agricole Private EquityParis, FranceUS$ 4,45612
5Seventure Partners SAParis, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 60111
6Idinvest PartnersParis, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 3,36610
7XAnge Private EquityParis, FranceUS$ 3539
8Auriga Partners SAParis, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 3978
9Sofinnova PartnersParis, FranceUS$ 1,3288
10A Plus FinanceParis, FranceUS$ 667
11Emertec GestionGrenoble, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 1447
12Serena Capital SASParis, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 1207
13Ventech SAParis, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 4397
14Alto InvestLe Chesnay, France6
15Alven CapitalParis, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 1806
16Naxicap Partners SAParis, FranceUS$ 9746
17OseoMaisons-Alfort, FranceGovernmentUS$ 3616
18Edmond de Rothschild Investment PartnersParis, FranceUS$ 5805
19Fonds Strategique d’InvestissementParis, France5
20I-Source Gestion SAParis, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 2255
21Innovacom SAParis, FranceCorporate Venture CapitalUS$ 5415
22Truffle Capital SASParis, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 4625
23123 VentureParis, FranceUS$ 1804
24ACE ManagementParis, FranceUS$ 1664
25Developpement et PartenariatParis, FranceUS$ 1804
26Gimv NVAntwerp, BelgiumUS$ 2,1164
27iXO Private Equity SASToulouse, FranceUS$ 3614
28Oddo Asset ManagementParis, FranceUS$ 2044
29Sofimac Partners SAClermont-Ferrand, FranceUS$ 2404
30SudinnovaLyon, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 544
31Turenne Capital Partenaires SAParis, FranceUS$ 3614
32BNP Paribas DeveloppementParis, FranceUS$ 2953
33BNP Paribas Private Equity SASParis, FranceUS$ 9713
34Cap Decisif ManagementParis, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 583
35CDC InnovationParis, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 4993
36CEA InvestissementGrenoble, FranceGovernmentUS$ 183
37CIC Banque de VizilleLyon, France3
38Entrepreneur VentureParis, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 423
39Jaina Capital SASParis, FranceAngel InvestorUS$ 1203
40Masseran Gestion SASParis, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 563
41Matignon Investissement & GestionParis, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 3013
42Midi Capital SASToulouse, FranceUS$ 323
43NextStage AurelParis, FranceUS$ 1763
44OTC Asset Management SAParis, FranceUS$ 3013
45Societe Hospitaliere d’Assurances MutuelLyon, FranceVenture Capital3
46360 Capital PartnersMilan, ItalyVenture CapitalUS$ 1202
47Apax Partners LLPLondon, United KingdomUS$ 20,0002
48Backbone SASParis, France2
49Bioam GestionParis, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 672
50Esfin GestionCourbevoie, FranceVenture CapitalUS$ 722

50 VENTURE CAPITAL FUNDING FIRMS THAT FUNDS EARLY STAGE FRENCH START UPS UPTO 5BILLION USD