Trion World Goes From Zero to $100M in Nine Months

According to the recently released Global Online Gaming Report 2012 by researcher yStats.com, global online gaming revenue is projected to grow by more than 10% annually from 2010 through 2016. A report by DFC Intelligence pegs the online gaming market to be worth $18 billion worldwide. Online gaming publisher Trion Worlds Inc. is counting on

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Accenture: A Major Job Creation Force

According to Everest Group’s Market Vista: Q1 2012, during the first quarter, the global outsourcing and offshoring market transaction volumes remained relatively flat with 441 outsourcing deals compared with 433 transactions signed a quarter ago. First quarter global transaction volumes increased 11% sequentially to an all-commodity volume of $3 billion, with growth being driven from

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Hulu Shies Away from Public Market

Online video service Hulu has put aside all IPO plans. It is instead concentrating on growing its presence in the market. As of May 2012, Hulu reported close to 38 million viewers, of which more than two million were subscribers of the paid service, Hulu Plus.  Also in May, Hulu reported 25.6 million viewers averaging

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ON24: Yet Another SaaS Company Eying IPO

According to a research conducted on virtual events, analysts have found that during the past year, more than 60% of marketers increased spending on such events. The survey revealed that the majority of businesses have never hosted a virtual event, and only 28% of those surveyed were comfortable with hosting one. The overall size of

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Brainshark: IPO or Acquisition Target?

As part of my sales 2.0 case studies, I introduced Brainshark, a provider of an SaaS platform that helps organizations create, narrate, share, and track online multimedia presentations. Analysts expect that Brainshark may now be deciding whether to start an IPO process. Let’s take a look at how the business has fared so far.

Couchsurfing: Could It Be the EHarmony of Friendship?

We have been covering AirBnb for a while, and the trend of travelers crashing on the couches of locals is surely an interesting one. Recently, Benchmark Capital funded a non-profit company in this area, which intrigued us greatly. The idea for social travel network Couchsurfing.com came in 1999 when Casey Fenton made a network of

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Oracle Succeeds in Software, Struggles in Hardware

Last week Gartner lowered growth projections for the enterprise software market because of worsening macroeconomic conditions. Worldwide spending on enterprise application software is projected to grow 4.5% over the year to $120.4 billion this year, compared with earlier estimates of 5% growth. The researcher expects enterprise resource planning (ERP) sales to remain the largest enterprise application

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HubSpot Aims for 2013 IPO

According to a study published by inbound marketer HubSpot, The State of Inbound Marketing Report, organizations that use inbound marketing channels as the preferred mode of marketing find costs per lead to be 62% lower those that prefer outbound marketing tools. Inbound marketing is also benefiting from increased adoption. The report shows that in 2011,

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