Jive-ing the Public Market

According to an IDC report released for the previous year, the worldwide enterprise social market segment was led by IBM with revenues of $105.4 million from IBM Connections. IBM accounted for 13.7% of the market’s share. Jive Software (Nasdaq:JIVE) followed IBM at a distant second position with $65.3 million in revenues and 8.5% market share. Microsoft’s Yammer

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Tableau’s Strong IPO

Researcher Visiongain’s latest report, “World Big Data Market Opportunities 2013-2018: Converging Data Architectures,” estimates global big data market to be worth $12.4 billion this year. The researcher believes that deployment of big data technologies will continue to explode in the coming years as more and more enterprises of all sizes, small and big, begin to

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Shazam’s IPO Expected Soon

According to market reports, an average U.S. mobile phone user spends more than 127 minutes a day on mobile apps. Of that time, nearly 43% is spent on gaming apps, followed by 26% of the time being spent on social media apps like Facebook and Twitter. Entertainment apps, which include music and TV viewing, account

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Conduit – Another Billion-Dollar Valuation

According to a Gartner report, worldwide revenues from app downloads is expected to grow 62% this year to $25 billion. The growth in the mobile app market is driven by the increasing use of mobile devices globally. It is estimated that mobile consumers spend nearly two hours on an average each day with mobile apps.

Home Away’s Expanding Offerings

According to market reports, over the past few years, growth within the vacation rentals industry in the U.S. has outpaced growth of the hotel industry in the country. Studies conducted by the Vacation Rental Managers Association revealed that from August 2011 through August 2012, the vacation rental bookings market grew 30% compared with 3% growth

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Model N’s IPO

According to Gartner in 2011, life science and technology companies worldwide spent an estimated $17.3 billion on software, consulting services, and internal IT personnel dedicated to sales support, marketing, and finance. For these companies, revenue management solutions are becoming a big part of IT spending. In a report published in 2009, IDC estimated that the

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Angie’s List Stock Improves, But …

Things seem to be turning around for local business reviews site, Angie’s List (Nasdaq:ANGI). Recently, the company released their quarterly financials which managed to surpass market expectations. They attribute the success to an improving consumer economy. According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, in April of this year, disposable income in the country fell

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MercadoLibre Unfazed by Competition

According to comScore’s 2013 Latin America Digital Future in Focus report released last month, Latin America recorded the fastest-growing online population of any region during the previous year. The number of unique Internet visitors in the region grew 12% over the year to more than 147 million as of March of this year. The increased use

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