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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Zulily Attempts to Make a Turnaround
Billion Dollar Unicorn club member and online niche flash sales site Zulily (Nasdaq: ZU) appears to be making a slow turnaround according to recent quarter results. The stock’s performance has been rather weak of late and it had entered the list of the Wall Street’s worst performing stocks for 2015 after having dropped 47% during
LinkedIn Stock Tumbles
After delivering some strong quarterly results, LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) seems to be struggling in growing their core business. While overall results and projections were better than expectations, the market was not so happy considering that a bulk of that improvement is attributed to LinkedIn’s earlier acquisition of Lynda.com. Post announcement of the results, the stock
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Coinbase Tries To Capitalize on BitCoins
According to recent market reports, there are close to 14.5 million Bitcoins in circulation globally. Users have completed over 75 million transactions using these new coins. Bitcoin’s ability to scale further depends on increased consumer confidence and the development of secure services around this currency. Billion Dollar Unicorn status hopeful San Francisco-based Coinbase is helping
Carnival in the Cloud: Taulia Innovates in Supplier Management and Invoicing
A TechNavio report forecasts the global e-invoicing market to grow 24.2% annually over the period 2012 through 2016. The growth in the market was attributed to the increased adoption of these services by small and medium enterprises and the continued focus on reduction of operational costs. San Francisco-based Taulia is one such fast growing company
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Rapid7 Delivers a Successful IPO
A recent MarketsandMarkets report projects the global cybersecurity market to grow 10% annually from $106.32 billion this year to $170.21 billion by the year 2020. The researcher reveals that while North America will be the largest market for the industry, the growth will actually be driven by the Latin American and Asia Pacific markets. Billion
Facebook Delivering Strong Advertising Growth
According to a report by media agency Carat, the global advertising market is projected to grow 4.6% this year to $540 billion. The growth will be driven by increased spending on digital media which is projected to grow 15.7% this year. Overall digital media is expected to account for 24% of advertising market spend for
Twitter Fails to Recover
According to a recent report published by the Business Insider, the global online video ad revenues are projected to grow from 2.8 billion in 2013 to $5 billion in 2016. Video ads with a 1.84% click-through rate (CTR) ranks the highest among all digital ad formats. Social media companies like Facebook and Twitter are both embracing
Angie’s List Faces Tougher Competition
Competition in the home services market is heating up. Not only tech giants like Amazon and Google appear interested in the market, but smaller vendors like Thumbtack are also growing rapidly. All this competition is making it difficult for established players like Angie’s List to stand their ground.