Online Ad Spend Crosses $100 Billion

Online advertising crossed a milestone last year when worldwide digital ad spend crossed the $100 billion mark. According to eMarketer, online advertising grew 18% over the year to $102.83 billion. Online ad spending is projected to grow 15% this year to $118.40 million. eMarketer expects online advertising to be a $163 billion industry by 2016.

SevOne’s IPO Plans

According to a Gartner report released last year, total software revenues from worldwide IT operations management (ITOM) grew 8.7% in 2011 to $18.3 billion. The market is dominated by five vendors – IBM, CA Technologies, BMC Software, Microsoft, and HP – which together account for 53.5% of the market share. Other smaller players are coming

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Envivio Struggles Following IPO

Video infrastructure services provider Envivio (Nasdaq:ENVI) has had a troubled run since its IPO in April 2012. The company had filed papers proposing the sale of shares at $9 each. Soon after listing, Envivio downgraded its financial outlook to revenues of $10 million-$11 million compared with earlier issued guidance of $17 million-$18 million.

Digital Future at Electronic Arts

According to the latest report by NPD Group, video game retail sales of new hardware, software, and accessories in the U.S. fell 22% last year to $13.26 billion. Sales were also down 22% for December at $3.21 billion. Hardware sales reported a decline of 20% for December and were down 27% for the year. Software

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Hulu’s Challenges in Online Video

Online video streaming service Hulu seems to have hit a rough patch. User loyalty seems to be eroding as viewers shift to other sites that offer better content with less interruption. According to a report by comScore, last month 182 million U.S. Internet users watched 38.7 billion online content videos. Google Sites, led by YouTube, remained

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eBay’s Strong Growth Continues

Online marketplace eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) continues its recovery over the course of the previous year. The stock grew 77% last year, compared with an overall S&P 500 index growth of 15%. The recent quarter’s results again reassure the market’s faith in the stock as it continues to climb.

Can You Make Money in Music?

The digital music business has been really tough to make money in. I often scratch my head and wonder whether anyone can make money in this business. We cover the usual suspects, including the Swedish music streaming service, Spotify. As we have discussed earlier, Spotify remains unprofitable despite international reach, revenues of $889 million projected for

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Snapchat: Yet Another Valuation-Without-Revenue Company

According to the most recent Social Media report by Nielsen, the time spent on social media networks in the U.S. such as Facebook and Twitter grew 37% over the year from 88 billion minutes in July 2011 to 121 billion minutes in July 2012. The rise is attributed to an increase in the use of

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