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Zynga Betting on Mobile Games
Gartner’s recent report on the gaming industry estimates the worldwide games market to be worth $93 billion last year, compared with $79 billion in 2012. The growth in the industry is attributed to mobile gaming, video game console, and software sales. Globally, the gaming industry is projected to be worth $111 billion by 2015 with
LinkedIn Eyeing China for Growth
The slowing growth rate for the projected quarters has been bogging down most social media stocks. Recently, the stock market took unfavorably to the newly public social networking giant Twitter, which projected a weaker outlook on account of slowing user growth. Professional network LinkedIn fared no better when they announced a similar trend for their
IBM Re-Balancing Their Portfolio
Gartner’s recent report on worldwide IT spending estimates IT spending to grow 3.1% to $3.8 trillion in 2014. Enterprise software is expected to be the strongest growing market with spending projected to increase 6.8% to 320 billion in 2014. It is followed by a 4.5% growth in IT services to $963 billion. Spending on devices
Fat Startup Delphix Growing Rapidly
According to a recent report by IDC, the global big data market is projected to grow 6 times faster than the IT market to be worth $16.1 billion this year. Within big data, the infrastructure market is expected to be the highest growing segment and will account for 45% of the market this year. Services
Twitter’s Strategy For Addressing Slowing User Growth
Last week Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) announced results for their fourth quarter – the first result announcement since they went public. While quarterly performance exceeded market expectations, the Street wasn’t too happy with their user metrics. Twitter is looking at improving their product to counter this slowing growth.
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
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.