BlackLine Closing in on the Billion Dollar Unicorn Club

Continuing with our coverage of Billion Dollar Unicorns and possible contenders, here is the interesting story of BlackLine – a company that offers scalable applications to automate financial closing and other accounting processes.

India’s Zomato Joins the Billion Dollar Unicorn Club

There aren’t many Billion Dollar Unicorn companies coming out of India. But here is an interesting story of restaurant search and discovery portal Zomato, which is showing remarkable growth both within and outside the country.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Hortonworks Needs To Deliver Results

A Markets and Markets report on Hadoop estimates the total Hadoop market to grow 55% annually to be worth $13.95 billion by 2017. Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Hortonworks is one successful player in this rapidly growing Hadoop market.

Amazon Finally Reveals its Cloud Financials

Lately, Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has started revealing more financial details about their business segments. Last quarter, they spoke about Prime and this quarter, they shared a peek into the world of their cloud business. And, the market is pleased with what they saw.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Cheetah Mobile Part Of Chinese Contingent

Market research reports project the mobile app market to be a $77 billion industry worldwide. The number of mobile downloads is projected to increase from 50 billion by July 2013 to 268 billion app downloads by 2017. Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Cheetah Mobile is China’s answer to this rapidly growing mobile-focused industry.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: GoodData Riding High on Big Data Analytics Market Growth

An IDC conference conducted in December 2014 on Worldwide Big Data and Analytics revealed some interesting statistics. According to the researcher, visual data discovery tools are projected to grow 2.5 times faster than the rest of the business intelligence market, and by 2018 this segment will become a requirement for all enterprises. IDC estimates spending on

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Google Facing the Heat From EU

The recently ended quarter did not bring in much good news for Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), again. This was the sixth consecutive quarter that Google’s earnings missed market expectations. Things don’t seem to be improving in the near future. The recent Yahoo and Firefox agreement has hurt Google as their US search share slipped to the lowest since

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Hootsuite Eyes an IPO

A new report by BI Intelligence suggests that social media ad spending in the US will grow from $6.1 billion in 2013 to $14 billion by 2018. The growth in this ad spend is creating a big need for players like Billion Dollar Unicorn club contender Hootsuite that help companies manage their social media marketing better.