Strong And Steady E-Commerce Growth In Latin America

The Internet population in Latin America grew 15% over the year to 112.7 million visitors in January 2011, according to comScore. Brazil was the largest online market in the region and reported 20% growth over the year to 40.5 million users. Venezuela reported the highest growth rate of 27% to 2.9 million users. Mexico’s online

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Quora, Yet Another Valuation Without Revenue Startup?

Quora calls itself a startup building a continually improving collection of questions and answers. It was founded by former Facebook employees Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever in 2009. Initially launched as a private, by-invitation-only initiative early last year, the question-and-answer site was opened to all in the summer of 2010.

China Struggling With Fraud and Copyright Amidst Massive Internet Growth

Access to the Internet in China is continuing to expand rapidly. According to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), last year the number of China’s total Internet users increased 19% to reach 457 million. Not surprisingly, growth in the number of Internet users is driving online sales. In a report published by China e-Business Research

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Looking Inside The Foursquare Hype

Geolocation services are becoming one of the next hot things in the social marketing space. While players such as foursquare and Gowalla are dedicated providers of geolocation-based marketing services, bigger players, including Google and Facebook have, have entered the space with their own offerings  – Google Places and Facebook Places.

Hulu Gains From Online Video Momentum

Today, viewers can watch online video content free on sites such as Google’s YouTube or by accessing a subscription-based service such as Netflix or Hulu Plus. While analysts believe that the availability of content in this way has led to cord-cutting and trouble for traditional cable companies, the recent financial performance of leading cable players like

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Bootstrapped CrowdStar Chasing Funding-Flushed Zynga and Rovio

The U.S. social gaming market is expected to grow at 28% in the current year to $1.1 billion and another 21% in 2012 to reach $1.32 billion. Zynga leads the segment with more than 360 million users accessing its gaming properties. But smaller players such as CrowdStar are giving it worthwhile competition.

Rovio, Finland’s Answer To Zynga

Gartner projects worldwide mobile gaming market to reach $11.4 billion by 2014. The mobile gaming market is estimated to have grown 19% over the year in 2010 to cross $5.6 billion in revenues. Gartner’s report estimates that 70% to 80% of all mobile app downloads are mobile games. Further, 60% to 70% of those downloaded

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Epocrates: A Mobile App Case Study In Healthcare

Epocrates (NASDAQ:EPOC) was founded in 1998 by two Stanford students as a means to ease doctors’ burden of carrying around books to look up drug information, drug interactions, and dosing information. Since then, the company has transformed itself into a leading provider of clinical information and solutions to healthcare providers. It boasts of a network of

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