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Google Expanding Offerings Through Acquisitions
eMarketer’s latest report on mobile advertising projects worldwide mobile internet ad spending to grow from $17.96 billion in 2013 to $94.91 billion by the year 2018. The mobile ad market is expected to grow 75% to $31.45 billion in 2014, but online giant Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is seeing its market share slip. Last year, Google
Yahoo Needs To Show Financial Performance Now
According to an eMarketer report released late last year, US digital ad revenues are projected to grow from $42.58 billion in 2013 to $48.09 billion in 2014 and $53.36 billion by 2015. Google is expected to remain the market leader with its 39.9% share last year growing to 40.8% in 2014. Facebook is also building
Borderfree Helps American Retailers Expand Internationally
According to eMarketer’s latest report, worldwide business-to-consumer e-commerce is projected to grow 20.1% in 2014 to $1.5 trillion. The report estimates that this year, e-commerce sales from the Asia Pacific region will outpace the American market sales and account for $525.2 billion of the total market. North America’s e-commerce is expected to grow from $431
Q2 Holdings Helping Financial Institutions Move to the Cloud
According to IT Spending in Banking: A North American Perspective, a report published by Celent, US financial institutions were expected to spend nearly $48.9 billion on IT initiatives in 2013. The study found that of this spend, $11.4 billion would be incurred on new initiatives. Banks are increasing their presence online and the new initiative spend is
Globoforce Delays Their IPO Plans
According to a Gartner research report, an organization spends nearly 2% of its payroll cost on traditional employee recognition expenses. A study conducted by IDC in 2012 estimated that the North America employee recognition market will grow 8% annually over the period 2011 through 2016. The market was worth $22 billion in 2011 and was
Paylocity Addressing the Growing HCM Market
According to an IDC research report, the US market for Human Capital Management (HCM) applications and payroll outsourcing services is expected to be worth $22.5 billion this year. Another research report by Aberdeen Group published in 2012 estimated that nearly 38% of HCM related investment was being made in cloud computing initiatives. It is not
Rubicon Project’s Latest IPO
According to a research report by ZenithOptimedia, global ad spend was estimated to grow 3.5% last year to $503 billion. Digital advertising is becoming an increasingly bigger component of the advertising market. US digital advertising is estimated to account for 21.8% of the overall ad spend of $109.7 billion, compared with 19% market share a
Nokia Finally Moves to Android
According to a recent Gartner report, worldwide mobile phone sales excluding the smartphone segment grew 3.5% last year to 1.8 billion units. During the fourth quarter of 2013, mobile phone sales grew 3.9% to 490.3 million units. Samsung remains the market leader with a 24.6% market share and 444.4 million units in 2013 compared with 384.6