Housing Rebound Pushes Online Real Estate Stocks Up

The housing market continues to rebound. Recent market reports show that housing prices have gone up significantly, with some markets reporting price increases of 15% over the previous year’s levels. The housing industry has benefited from lower mortgage rates and government policies such as the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) and the Home Affordable Modification Program

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EA’s Mobile and Asian Market Push

The worldwide gaming industry is waiting eagerly for several big releases for the start of the holiday season this year. Microsoft’s XBox One and Sony’s Playstation 4 are both currently being pre-ordered for delivery in November. Within games, Take-Two Interactive recently released “Grand Theft Auto V.” Analysts estimate that the game will generate $1.5 billion

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Salesforce Platform Strategy Hold Immense Promise

According to Gartner’s Forecast: Enterprise Software Markets, Worldwide, 2012-2017, 2Q13 Update, worldwide spending on enterprise software is projected to grow 6% this year to $304 billion. Within the market, Gartner projects CRM market to be a fast growing market with an estimated annual growth rate of 15% over the period 2012 through 2017. A quarter

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Intel’s Confusing Strategy

The PC industry is not seeing a recovery soon. IDC’s recent quarterly PC shipment report saw global PC shipments fall 11.4% over the year to 75.6 million units driven by the increased adoption of tablet devices. Besides PC vendors, the trend has also forced chip manufacturers like Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) to diversify their operations.

IBM Remains Focused on Big Data and Cloud Computing

The latest Gartner’s Worldwide IT Spending Report estimates global IT spending to grow 2% over the year to $3.7 trillion. By segment, telecom services will remain the largest sector with $1.66 trillion of the market and growing 0.9% over the year. IT Services are projected to grow 2.2% over the year to $0.93 trillion. Devices

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Swedish-born Qlik Offers Business Intelligence to SMBs

Researcher TBR’s 2Q13 Business Intelligence Software Vendor Benchmark estimates worldwide business intelligence (BI) software market to grow 4% annually over the period 2013 through 2018 to be worth more than $40 billion by 2018. In another report, Gartner estimated the BI market to have reported a growth of 6.8% over the year to $13.13 billion

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Zynga’s Woes Continue

Since social gaming player, Zynga (Nasdaq:ZNGA), went public, their troubles have only increased. Not only have their acquisitions failed to deliver, but their existing games are losing steam as well. Add to that concern of increased competition and slowing growth rates for the industry. Little wonder then that Zynga has had to rethink not only

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Workday Entering Student Services

According to Gartner, the Software-as-a-Service market is projected to grow 20% over the period 2011 through 2016 to $32.8 billion. Within the market, CRM will be the largest market growing from $5 billion in 2012 to $9 billion by the year 2016. But the biggest growth within SaaS will be driven by Office Suites which are

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