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King’s IPO Failed to Deliver the Candy Crush Success
Tech stocks on stock exchanges have taken a beating recently. After reaching a high in March this year, the Nasdaq had fallen 7% as of last week. Not only are the older tech stocks like Facebook seeing their stock tumble, but the recent IPOs aren’t faring well either. It appears that investors are finally showing some caution when investing into companies that boast of high valuation but offer little or no profits.
Google Expanding Offerings Through Acquisitions
eMarketer’s latest report on mobile advertising projects worldwide mobile internet ad spending to grow from $17.96 billion in 2013 to $94.91 billion by the year 2018. The mobile ad market is expected to grow 75% to $31.45 billion in 2014, but online giant Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is seeing its market share slip. Last year, Google accounted for 49.3% of the mobile advertising market. That number is projected to drop to 46.8% in 2014 as Facebook ramps up its share from 17.5% to 21.7%.
Google is diversifying its efforts into revenues from alternate technology. Last week, they sold the wearable Google Glass to the public for a day and last quarter, they acquired connected device maker NestLabs as part of this move. During the recent quarter, Google continued to add to their portfolio through several acquisitions. >>>
Yahoo Needs To Show Financial Performance Now
According to an eMarketer report released late last year, US digital ad revenues are projected to grow from $42.58 billion in 2013 to $48.09 billion in 2014 and $53.36 billion by 2015. Google is expected to remain the market leader with its 39.9% share last year growing to 40.8% in 2014. Facebook is also building its share from 7.4% to 8.2% this year. But Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), continues to slip and is expected to see its market share fall from 5.8% in 2013 to 5.4% in 2014 and 5.0% in 2015.
Borderfree Helps American Retailers Expand Internationally
According to eMarketer’s latest report, worldwide business-to-consumer e-commerce is projected to grow 20.1% in 2014 to $1.5 trillion. The report estimates that this year, e-commerce sales from the Asia Pacific region will outpace the American market sales and account for $525.2 billion of the total market. North America’s e-commerce is expected to grow from $431 billion in 2013 to $482 billion this year.
Q2 Holdings Helping Financial Institutions Move to the Cloud
According to IT Spending in Banking: A North American Perspective, a report published by Celent, US financial institutions were expected to spend nearly $48.9 billion on IT initiatives in 2013. The study found that of this spend, $11.4 billion would be incurred on new initiatives. Banks are increasing their presence online and the new initiative spend is going toward improving their capabilities for online, mobile, tablet, and other self-service capabilities.
Globoforce Delays Their IPO Plans
According to a Gartner research report, an organization spends nearly 2% of its payroll cost on traditional employee recognition expenses. A study conducted by IDC in 2012 estimated that the North America employee recognition market will grow 8% annually over the period 2011 through 2016. The market was worth $22 billion in 2011 and was projected to reach $32 billion in 2016.
Paylocity Addressing the Growing HCM Market
According to an IDC research report, the US market for Human Capital Management (HCM) applications and payroll outsourcing services is expected to be worth $22.5 billion this year. Another research report by Aberdeen Group published in 2012 estimated that nearly 38% of HCM related investment was being made in cloud computing initiatives. It is not just the big organizations that are wanting to deploy cloud based offerings, but the smaller organizations are also realizing the benefits of a cloud-based HCM offering.
Rubicon Project’s Latest IPO
According to a research report by ZenithOptimedia, global ad spend was estimated to grow 3.5% last year to $503 billion. Digital advertising is becoming an increasingly bigger component of the advertising market. US digital advertising is estimated to account for 21.8% of the overall ad spend of $109.7 billion, compared with 19% market share a year ago.