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Concur Executing Steadily in Fast-Growing SaaS Market
Gartner estimates that the worldwide SaaS market was worth $12.3 billion last year and projects it will grow to $14.5 billion this year. Further, IDC estimates that worldwide SaaS market revenue will grow at an annual rate of 26% over the next few years to reach $53.6 billion by 2015. IDC also projects that by
Thursday, August 23: Openings For Entrepreneurs To Pitch At 139th 1M/1M Roundtable
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 139th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, August 23, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mike Toplisek, EVP, Product and Marketing, EarthLink (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: So, it’s a technology-enabled solution. It’s not a people-empowered service; it’s software as a service. Mike Toplisek: That’s right. It’s about empowerment. We’re driving more toward that. We have a business with an existing cost structure that enables us to provide human touch as needed. We’ll service our customers in the way that
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mike Toplisek, EVP, Product and Marketing, EarthLink (Part 3)
SM: This is an interesting discussion. When people read this interview, can they gauge how to determine whether or not they would be a fit for you? MT: Yes. It’s very broad. We play in multiple verticals. So, what we’re doing is alignment of value-add applications and bundling that with other necessary tools like collaboration
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mike Toplisek, EVP, Product and Marketing, EarthLink (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about some of the trends you are seeing. Mike Toplisek: We started a little less than a year ago bringing some of these cloud computing and IT services to small and medium customers. The interest in the older flows and the funnels have validated the trend we believed to be
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mike Toplisek, EVP, Product and Marketing, EarthLink (Part 1)
Although you don’t have to forget what you already know about EarthLink, you will have to adjust your thinking a bit. Today, EarthLink is an IT services, network, and communications provider that serves more than a million consumers, with more than 150,000 business customers spread throughout the United States. Cloud computing is the wave of
Box Eyes IPO At Unrealistic Valuation
Within the cloud computing segment, enterprise content management (ECM) is a fast-growth industry. Gartner projects that the ECM market will grow at a compounded rate of 10.1% annually to more than $5.7 billion by 2014. Another report by researcher The Radicati Group projects that by 2016, the market will be worth $7.5 billion. Big names
TradeKing Announces Financial Entrepreneur Pitch-Fest Competition With Silicon Valley’s One Million by One Million
Offers 12 Scholarships to Virtual Incubation Program Focused on Bootstrapping and Go-to-Market Strategies for Entrepreneurs Launching or Expanding Financial Services Ventures FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. and SAN FRANCISCO, Ca. – August 6, 2012 – Online broker-dealer TradeKing, an innovator in financial services, today announced the TradeKing Financial Entrepreneur Pitch-Fest Competition. The Competition is designed to encourage and