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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Cheetah Mobile Part Of Chinese Contingent
Market research reports project the mobile app market to be a $77 billion industry worldwide. The number of mobile downloads is projected to increase from 50 billion by July 2013 to 268 billion app downloads by 2017. Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Cheetah Mobile is China’s answer to this rapidly growing mobile-focused industry.
Billion Dollar Unicorns: GoodData Riding High on Big Data Analytics Market Growth
An IDC conference conducted in December 2014 on Worldwide Big Data and Analytics revealed some interesting statistics. According to the researcher, visual data discovery tools are projected to grow 2.5 times faster than the rest of the business intelligence market, and by 2018 this segment will become a requirement for all enterprises. IDC estimates spending on cloud-based Big Data and analytics to grow three times faster than spending for on-premise solutions. It expects decision management platforms to grow 60% annually 2019. Billion Dollar Unicorn club contender GoodData has established a strong presence in this market.
Google Facing the Heat From EU
The recently ended quarter did not bring in much good news for Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), again. This was the sixth consecutive quarter that Google’s earnings missed market expectations. Things don’t seem to be improving in the near future. The recent Yahoo and Firefox agreement has hurt Google as their US search share slipped to the lowest since 2012 to 64.4% in March this year. Additionally, Google’s continued investments in R&D to experiment with new offerings and recent antitrust claims filed by EU are making things difficult for them.
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Hootsuite Eyes an IPO
A new report by BI Intelligence suggests that social media ad spending in the US will grow from $6.1 billion in 2013 to $14 billion by 2018. The growth in this ad spend is creating a big need for players like Billion Dollar Unicorn club contender Hootsuite that help companies manage their social media marketing better.
Yahoo Stumbles Along
Yahoo’s (Nasdaq: YHOO) Marissa Mayer just can’t seem to figure out an operational turnaround. Earlier this week, Yahoo reported their first quarter results for the year and they continued to disappoint the market. Some may argue that since Mayer took over the reins, Yahoo’s stock has nearly tripled. But the growth in the stock is really attributed to their high performing investments in Asia. Yahoo owns 24% stake in Alibaba and 35% stake in Yahoo Japan.
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Flipboard Focuses on Monetization
Recent market reports suggest that the global media industry is a $600 billion business with most either already running digital operations for their magazines or in the process of transitioning to them. Despite the high digitization of media, only 20% of ads are currently digital. Social magazine and Billion Dollar Unicorns Club member Flipboard believes that they offer these publishers the ability to make the switch to digital through their service.
Billion Dollar Unicorns: ServiceNow Expands Addressable Market
Billion Dollar Unicorn club member ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) may have been founded to offer IT Service Desk Management capabilities over the cloud. But in recent years, they have diversified their offerings beyond ITSM to include additional enterprise management capabilities including HR, operations, legal, and facilities management. They continue to do so with stellar results as is evident from their recently reported performance.
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Dafiti Leading E-Commerce in Latin America
According to a recent eMarketer report, total retail sales in Brazil are estimated to grow 7.3% in 2015 to $460.06 billion. Total retail sales in the country are projected to grow to $545.33 billion by the year 2018. E-commerce is expected to continue to see double digit growth through 2018. Retail e-commerce is expected to grow 15.5% in 2015 to $18.8 billion and continue to grow to $26.2 billion by 2018. Here is the story of Dafiti, Brazil’s representative to the Billion Dollar Unicorn club.