SAP Eyes Cloud and Mobile Spend

SAP (NYSE: SAP) ended the year 2015 with a bang, surpassing all market expectations and causing its stock to touch 52-week high levels. But if the market was expecting a similar performance for the first quarter of the year, it was disappointed. The company reported rather lackluster results, following the footsteps of most of the other

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eBay Getting Into Wine

The market hasn’t been too pleased with eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) lately after it hived off PayPal as an independent company. Over the past few quarters, eBay has been delivering lackluster performance for its e-commerce division and has failed to keep pace with e-tail giant Amazon. To make matters worse, the company is facing increasing competition

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Square Post Its IPO

According to eMarketer, mobile payments in the US are estimated to grow 210% to $27.05 billion in 2016 from $8.71 billion in 2015. The number of people in the US using proximity mobile payments is expected to grow 61.8% to 37.5 million by 2016. Square became a Billion Dollar Unicorn raising funds on ridiculously high valuations, but

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Age of Learning Monetizing in Educational Apps

According to a ReportsnReports report, the global education gamification market is estimated to grow 64% annually over the period 2014 through 2019. Gamification within education refers to a process of implementing game mechanics into non-gaming context so that users are engaged and are able to solve problems. It involves the appointment of points, badges, challenges, a leaderboard, and

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2016 IPO Prospects: NantHealth Testing the IPO Markets, Yet Again

According to a recent report by Grand View Research Inc., the global molecular diagnostics market size is expected to reach $8.02 billion by 2020 driven by the increasing prevalence of infectious and cardiovascular diseases along with rising geriatric population.

Market Losing Patience with Tableau Software

Investors appear to be losing confidence in data visualization vendor Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA). The company recently announced better than expected results for its first quarter. But that did not stop the stock from falling 11% in a single day.

Energy Recovery Continues to Grow

According to a ResearchAndMarkets report, currently only 1% of the global population receives water from desalination projects. The United Nations expects that percentage to grow to 14% by 2025. Water desalination vendor Energy Recovery Inc. (ERI) (NASDAQ: ERII) is perfectly positioned to fuel this growth. But it is not only water desalination that the company is

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ServiceNow Recovers

According to IDC, worldwide spending on public cloud services is expected to grow at a 19.4% CAGR or almost six times the rate of overall IT spending growth. It is expected to grow from nearly $70 billion in 2015 to more than $141 billion in 2019.