What Acquisitions are on Adobe’s Radar?

Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) has over the past few years reinvented itself as a cloud-based service provider. Today, it helps its customers to not just create content but also deliver, optimize, and personalize marketing content and applications. Last week, it reported its sixteenth straight quarter of revenue growth driven by growth in its digital media and

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Will Apttus Take the Plunge?

According to Gartner, the market for configure, price, and quote (CPQ) software was worth about $878 million in 2016 and is expected to grow 20% per year through 2020. Billion Dollar Unicorn Apttus is a leading player in the space that is expected to go public soon.

Will Alteryx Tap Into the Hyperactive Startup Pool?

According to IDC, the worldwide market for Big Data and analytics software reached approximately $49.1 billion in 2016 and is expected to grow at a five-year CAGR of 10.6%. Within the broader business analytics software market, Billion Dollar Unicorn Alteryx (NYSE: AYX) addresses the business intelligence and analytic tools, analytic data integration and spatial information analysis

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How Will Qualys Go From Ten Products to Twenty Products?

According to IDC, the global security and vulnerability management market grew 14.2% to $6 billion in 2016. Qualys’ revenue grew at a much faster rate of 20.3% to capture 10.1% of the market and fifth position behind IBM, HPE, Dell, and Splunk. Qualys (NASDAQ: QLYS) leads the Worldwide Device Vulnerability Assessment Market with a 17%

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Can BlackLine Continue the Run?

Since its public listing in 2016, BlackLine (NASDAQ: BL) has shown impressive performance and proven to be a sustainable Billion Dollar Unicorn. In its most recent results, it acheived non GAAP profitability and its market cap has now crossed $2 billion.

2018 IPO Prospects: What is Adaptive Insights’ Game Plan?

According to Persistence Market Research, the global corporate performance management (CPM) market is expected to grow to $3.6 billion in 2022 at a CAGR of 5% with the cloud segment at $0.97 billion. Adaptive Insights is a leading player in the cloud-based corporate performance management solutions market.

Is Twitter Out of Hot Water?

Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) has, for the first time in its history, reported a GAAP profit. Has it finally figured out how to leverage social media to deliver a profitable and growing business venture? Have all its troubles ended? 

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Should Xiaomi List at a $50B+ IPO Valuation?

A few years ago, Xiaomi was the most valued Billion Dollar Unicorn at $46 billion before Uber took away that crown. It now plans to go public this year in what could be the biggest tech float.