LinkedIn’s Product Expansion

According to market reports, the worldwide talent acquisition and staffing services was estimated to be worth $27 billion last year.  LinkedIn (Nasdaq:LNKD) may be the largest professional network, but it still has a huge market opportunity to tap into, and the company is focusing on expanding their products to get a bigger piece of the

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Facebook’s Talent Acquisitions

eMarketer’s latest report predicts the U.S. mobile advertising market to grow 77% this year to $7.29 billion.  Two years ago, the mobile advertising market stood at $1.48 billion. Growth is projected to continue in the years to come, with the market estimated to be worth $27.13 billion by 2017. The segment will account for 45%

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Xoom’s Zooming Growth in Money Transfer

Market reports suggest that last year more than $100 billion of funds are transferred online from the U.S. alone. The market is expected to be worth four to five times that globally. According to the World Bank, the global market for remittances grew annually at 12% to $513 billion over 2004 to 2011. The Bank estimates the

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Zynga’s Focus Shifts From Social to Mobile

According to market reports, online gaming through social networks may have been a fad and is on a decline. Recent results reported by social gaming player, Zynga (Nasdaq:ZNGA) support this realization. In view of the declining loyalty to social games, other games publishers are also shutting down games. Players like Electronic Arts are shutting down

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Twitter’s Maturing Monetization

After months of “will it or won’t it?”, it seems that the seven-year-old Twitter may be getting ready for a much-awaited IPO. Followed by the earlier management restructuring, Twitter’s strong growth is also fueling such speculation.

Amazon’s Growing Digital Empire

According to a Forrester report, e-commerce sales in the U.S. are projected to grow 13% this year to $262 billion. e-commerce sales are estimated to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 9% over the period 2012 through 2017 to be worth $370 billion by 2017. E-commerce may be growing, but Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is counting

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Apple Needs to Do Something Big

According to IDC, the smartphone market is projected to grow from 918.6 million units estimated this year to 1.52 billion units by the year 2017. The researcher projects growth to be driven by emerging markets of Brazil and India and continuing strength of the Chinese market. iPhones were the best selling smartphone in the U.S.

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Netflix Becomes HBO; Target for Apple?

The latest quarter continued to see Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) on the rebound as the stock recovered from its large drop more than a year ago when the company was forced by market sentiment to retract plans to increase subscription charges. The stock had also seen significant devaluation when the company failed to add subscribers at a

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