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Niche e-Commerce: Blinds.com Sells More Than $100M of Window Covers
Much of the market may still be following the rise and fall of several social media stocks. There are, however, several other interesting stories and business cases of how traditional retailers have used the Internet successfully to make it big in the connected world. For instance, players like Blue Nile have hurt brick and mortar
Nokia To Benefit From Samsung’s Setback?
According to Gartner, during the first quarter of 2012, worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users fell 2% over the year to 419.1 million units. The decline was attributed to slow demand in the Asia-Pacific region. Nokia lost its market leadership position, which it had held since 1998, and paved the way for Samsung
Intuit Divests Non-Core Businesses
According to Intuit’s Small Business Employment Index, small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the country are witnessing weak growth in employment and compensation rates. The July Index showed that employment within SMBs grew 0.17% in the month, while average monthly compensation grew 0.3%. Revenues for SMBs have fallen 0.5% over the previous month, indicating that
Online Real Estate Market Sees Two IPOs
Although a full recovery is still far away, analysts believe that the housing market may have begun to improve. In July 2012, sales of previously occupied homes grew 2.3% over the previous month. Over the past year, house sales have increased more than 10%. Home construction is also looking up. Market researchers predict that home
Ticketfly Competes with Ticketmaster
San-Francisco-based Ticketfly was founded in 2008 by Andrew Dreskin and Dan Teree. They believe themselves to be much more than an online ticket selling solution and see the company as an end-to-end, cloud-based social ticketing platform for event promoters and venues. The platform helps integrate ticketing with event website and social marketing in addition to
Is Jive Hoping for a Suitor?
IDC estimates the enterprise social platforms market will be worth $4.5 billion by the year 2016. That translates to an annualized growth rate of 43% over the next four years. The market is currently dominated by bigger players such as IBM, which commands more than 40% of the market share. Other big players trying to
Concur Executing Steadily in Fast-Growing SaaS Market
Gartner estimates that the worldwide SaaS market was worth $12.3 billion last year and projects it will grow to $14.5 billion this year. Further, IDC estimates that worldwide SaaS market revenue will grow at an annual rate of 26% over the next few years to reach $53.6 billion by 2015. IDC also projects that by
Groupon on a Slippery Slope
Analysts believe that consumers are beginning to feel the effects daily deals fatigue in the email in-boxes after being barraged by discount deals offered by multiple vendors multiple times a day. Benchmark Capital analyst Clayton Moran believes that “the daily deal business has run into a wall.” According to Yipit, daily deals market revenues have