Satya Nadella’s Microsoft: A Look Ahead

Last year, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) CEO, Steve Ballmer announced his plans to retire from his position at the head of Microsoft. Since then, the market has been speculating as to who would step next into the shoes to become the third CEO of the tech giant. The question was answered recently, when Microsoft announced the

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Application Performance Monitoring Industry IPOs Heating Up

The $2.12 billion application performance monitoring industry is looking at quite a few IPOs this year. Recently, we looked at AppDynamics which was evaluating a possible IPO. Here is a quick insight into another player in the industry, New Relic, which is also headed down the IPO route.

Amazon’s Riding High on the Cloud

According to last quarter’s report on the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) by Synergy Research Group, Amazon Web Service (AWS) maintained their lead in the market. While Microsoft’s Azure, Google, and IBM are catching up, they still have a long way to go. Synergy estimates that the total IaaS/PaaS market grew 52% last quarter to $3 billion.

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Facebook Delivering on Mobile

If there is one company that has figured out the mantra to mobile engagement and monetization, that is Facebook (Nasdaq: FB). The company recently reported impressive fourth quarter results that not only silenced all skeptics, but also helped drive their stock to a record high. After their initial IPO debacle, the company has surely figured

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There Is No Stopping Google

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), for the first half of the previous year, internet advertising sales grew 18% over the year to $20.1 billion. Mobile advertising continues to report strong growth with revenues from the segment growing 145% to $3 billion. Digital video advertising grew 24% to $1.3 billion in the first half

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Yahoo Should Acquire Airpush

Yahoo’s Merissa Mayer may have failed to deliver strong results for Yahoo, but she managed to drive improved user metrics at least on desktop visits. A recent comScore report on desktop web properties revealed that within the U.S., Yahoo received 195.16 million unique desktop visitors in December. Surprisingly, Yahoo outranked Google which came in second with

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AppDynamics On The IPO Pipeline

According to a Gartner report, the application performance monitoring (APM) market was estimated to grow 5.4% from $2.01 billion in 2012 to $2.12 billion by the end of 2013. Another research conducted by TRAC on over 600 IT and business professionals revealed that 71% of the organizations surveyed were using multiple solutions to address issues

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Netflix Looking at International to Drive Growth, Margins Face Risk

According to Juniper Research, the market from streaming and downloading services in the country was expected to be more than $4.5 billion last year. Giants like Netflix and Amazon are looking to grow their presence in Europe and Latin American markets. Recently, Wal-mart’s video streaming service, Vudu also expanded their operations in Mexico while continuing

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