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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

What types of things might happen in 2012, as opposed to needing another 3-5 years to come to fruition. That aside, here are ten areas I think you'll see some interesting things happening in 2012. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

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MiTú, based out of Los Angeles, was founded in 2012 by three veterans from the Hispanic media world: Beatriz Acevedo ( recently named on the 25 most important digital media players on The Hollywood Reporter !) , Doug Greiff and Roy Burstin. MiTú will use its $10 million to build out new production facilities in LA and Mexico.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. I predict this will come before the end of 2012. It isn’t new stuff.

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Serial fintech founder raises $20M for Ant Money to make micro-investing even more accessible

TechCrunch

Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. I think that’s a really big differentiator for us from our competitors.”. Interestingly, the company’s revenue model is a mix of adtech and fintech.

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Acorns acquires UK’s GoHenry, a fintech focused on 6- to 18-year-olds

TechCrunch

Previous TechCrunch coverage helps us break down the mix, but also points to either or both having lost some users in recent times. GoHenry (named after its first child-customer, according to the company) has raised a total of $125 million since it was founded in 2012. million paid subscribers. as well as in the U.S.,

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Celonis secures another $1B to find and fix process problems in enterprise systems

TechCrunch

Lest there be any doubt some startups are riding high even amid the macroeconomic uncertainty, process mining software vendor Celonis today announced that it secured a whopping $1 billion in additional capital at a $13 billion post-money valuation, a mix of equity ($400 million) and debt (a five-year $600 million credit line).