2016 presidential candidate creating the highest buzz on facebook

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

1	CDC Entreprises	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 1,923	21
2	CM-CIC Capital Prive	Paris, France	Investment Bank	US$ 373	13
3	Amundi SA	Paris, France		US$ 826,684	12
4	Credit Agricole Private Equity	Paris, France		US$ 4,456	12
5	Seventure Partners SA	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 601	11
6	Idinvest Partners	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 3,366	10
7	XAnge Private Equity	Paris, France		US$ 353	9
8	Auriga Partners SA	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 397	8
9	Sofinnova Partners	Paris, France		US$ 1,328	8
10	A Plus Finance	Paris, France		US$ 66	7
11	Emertec Gestion	Grenoble, France	Venture Capital	US$ 144	7
12	Serena Capital SAS	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 120	7
13	Ventech SA	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 439	7
14	Alto Invest	Le Chesnay, France			6
15	Alven Capital	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 180	6
16	Naxicap Partners SA	Paris, France		US$ 974	6
17	Oseo	Maisons-Alfort, France	Government	US$ 361	6
18	Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners	Paris, France		US$ 580	5
19	Fonds Strategique d’Investissement	Paris, France			5
20	I-Source Gestion SA	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 225	5
21	Innovacom SA	Paris, France	Corporate Venture Capital	US$ 541	5
22	Truffle Capital SAS	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 462	5
23	123 Venture	Paris, France		US$ 180	4
24	ACE Management	Paris, France		US$ 166	4
25	Developpement et Partenariat	Paris, France		US$ 180	4
26	Gimv NV	Antwerp, Belgium		US$ 2,116	4
27	iXO Private Equity SAS	Toulouse, France		US$ 361	4
28	Oddo Asset Management	Paris, France		US$ 204	4
29	Sofimac Partners SA	Clermont-Ferrand, France		US$ 240	4
30	Sudinnova	Lyon, France	Venture Capital	US$ 54	4
31	Turenne Capital Partenaires SA	Paris, France		US$ 361	4
32	BNP Paribas Developpement	Paris, France		US$ 295	3
33	BNP Paribas Private Equity SAS	Paris, France		US$ 971	3
34	Cap Decisif Management	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 58	3
35	CDC Innovation	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 499	3
36	CEA Investissement	Grenoble, France	Government	US$ 18	3
37	CIC Banque de Vizille	Lyon, France			3
38	Entrepreneur Venture	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 42	3
39	Jaina Capital SAS	Paris, France	Angel Investor	US$ 120	3
40	Masseran Gestion SAS	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 56	3
41	Matignon Investissement & Gestion	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 301	3
42	Midi Capital SAS	Toulouse, France		US$ 32	3
43	NextStage Aurel	Paris, France		US$ 176	3
44	OTC Asset Management SA	Paris, France		US$ 301	3
45	Societe Hospitaliere d’Assurances Mutuel	Lyon, France	Venture Capital		3
46	360 Capital Partners	Milan, Italy	Venture Capital	US$ 120	2
47	Apax Partners LLP	London, United Kingdom		US$ 20,000	2
48	Backbone SAS	Paris, France			2
49	Bioam Gestion	Paris, France	Venture Capital	US$ 67	2
50	Esfin Gestion	Courbevoie, France	Venture Capital	US$ 72	2

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