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2U Making Online Education Possible

In a report by Docebo, the worldwide market for self-paced E-Learning market, which was worth $35.6 billion in 2011, is projected to grow 7.6% over the five year period to be worth $51.5 billion by 2016. The report projects that the market for Learning Management Systems (LMS) that support the rapid growth in online education will grow from $40.6 billion in 2013 to $51.2 billion by the year 2016.

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Amber Road Growing Without Profits

According to the US Department of Commerce, US companies had imported $2.3 trillion of goods and exported $1.5 trillion of goods in 2012. Another report points out that China is now the world’s largest trading economy, with exports of nearly $2.1 trillion. Recently listed Amber Road (NYSE: AMBR) is using cloud-based solutions to help companies conduct international trade with ease.

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Five9’s Cloud Offerings for Contact Centers

According to a Gartner report, there were 14.5 million contact center agents worldwide in 2012. Cloud-based offerings to support these contact center agents are on the rise. The report projects that in North America, the cloud penetration of the contact center market is estimated to have grown from 5% in 2012 to 13% in 2016. Recently listed, San Ramon-based Five9 (NASDAQ: FIVN) is among the leading global providers of cloud-based call center solutions for sales, marketing, and support services.

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athenahealth Leads Industry in Stage 2 Meaningful Use

According to an Accenture report released earlier this year, the global market for electronic health records (EHR) is projected to grow 5.5% over the period 2012 to 2015 to $22.3 billion by 2015. The US is estimated to be the largest market worth $9.3 billion by 2015 at a 7.1% compounded annual growth rate over the period 2012 through 2015.

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Lofty Valuations in Online Real Estate

Economists believe that the much anticipated US housing market recovery is yet to come. The housing market is continuing its descent even during the busiest season of the year. Sales of previously owned homes registered a decline of 7.5% this March, the slowest pace in the previous 20 months. New home purchases also fell 14.5% over the year in February and applications for mortgages fell 20% over the year.

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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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