Angie’s List Anticipating Tough Competition From Amazon

A study conducted on online review sites last year found that 25% of the users believe that the information available on review sites is unfair. While some of the older sites are believed to be more trustworthy, more than a third of the consumers were still cautious about information on these sites.

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Hulu’s Subscriber Base Continues to Grow

According to a study conducted by Qwilt, a provider of online video delivery and caching solutions, as of March 2014, Netflix was the leading online video streaming services provider in the country with a 57.5% market share. A year ago, Netflix had 52.5% of this market. YouTube came in a distant second with market share falling from 28.2% a year ago to 16.9% as other online video services eat up into their share. Amazon’s video streaming service saw viewership share grow from 0.6% to 3.0% and Hulu’s share climbed from 1.5% to 2.8%.

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Nokia’s Life After the Phones

According to a MarketsandMarkets report Location Based Services (LBS) Market  — Worldwide Forecasts and Analysis (2014-2019), the LBS market is expected to be worth $39.87 billion by the year 2019. Another researcher Visiongain had estimated the market to be worth $10.3 billion in 2013.

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SAP Growing Through Acquisitions

According to a recent Gartner report, the worldwide Enterprise Software Market grew 3.8% in 2013 to $25.4 billion, registering a minor improvement compared with the 2.2% growth registered in 2012. SAP was the leader in the market with 24% share followed by Oracle’s 12% share.

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BlueNile Expands International While WebMD Expands Mobile Apps

According to the latest IDEX report on the US jewelry and watch sales, the country’s total sales in April grew 2.4% over the year to $5.73 billion. Excluding watches, jewelry sales in April grew 2.2% over the year to $2.49 billion. Another report by IBISWorld estimates the global online sales of jewelry and watches to have grown 2.9% over the period 2008 through 2013 to $10 billion.

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MercadoLibre’s Expanding Prowess

According to an eMarketer research, business-to-consumer e-commerce sales in Latin America are projected to grow 20% in 2014 to $57.69 billion from $48.14 billion last year. eMarketer projects Brazil to be the leading market in the region with total e-commerce transactions projected to grow 8.5% and reach $23.05 billion in 2015. The research predicts the number of digital buyers in Brazil to increase from 30.9 million in 2013 to 55.4 million by 2018. Markets of Mexico and Argentina will also see strong growth with users in Mexico growing from 8.4 million in 2013 to 18 million by 2018 and in Argentina from 7.5 million in 2013 to 12 million by 2018.

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MobileIron Goes Public, No Profit Yet

According to a report released by MarketsandMarkets, the global market for Bring Your Own Device and Enterprise Mobility is projected to grow 27% annually from $72 billion this year to $266 billion by 2019. The researcher expects the increased adoption of cloud technology and the continuing reduction in hardware costs to be among the key factors for increased mobile adoption within organizations.

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A10 Networks Goes Public, Losses Narrow

According to a Gartner report, Worldwide IT spending is projected to grow 3.1% over the year to $3.8 trillion in 2014. That is a significant improvement over the 0.4% growth reported in 2013. Within the market, enterprise software spending is projected to be the fastest growth segment with a projected improvement of 6.8% in 2014 to $320 billion.

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TrueCar Has No Profits But Billion Dollar Valuation

According to the National Automobile Dealers Association, last year 15.5 million new cars were sold in the United States. The automotive sector is one of the largest segments in the country. Recently listed, TrueCar is trying to revolutionize the way cars are sold in the country.

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Jive’s Stock Languishes; Is Cisco Going To Acquire Them?

According to an IDC report the global enterprise social software market grew from $968 million in 2012 to $1.24 billion in 2013. The IDC report also found that IBM remained the market leader in the segment with more than 75% of the Fortune 100 companies adopting their solutions. Another IDC report had pegged the enterprise social software market to grow 22% annually over the period 2012 to 2017 to $2.7 billion.

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