2016 IPO Prospects: Deliveroo Delivers its Way to the Bank

Market reports estimate that in the UK, online orders account for 40% of all food delivery compared with 8% market share in 2008. Deliveroo is one company that has helped drive this percentage upwards. The company is fast approaching the Billion Dollar Unicorn status and is also expected to be an IPO prospect.

HPE Goes Ultra Lean

After its $8.5 billion spin-merger of its Enterprise Service business with Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) last quarter, HP Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has just announced an $8.8 billion deal to spin-merge its non-core software assets with Micro Focus. Hybrid cloud will be the focus for the new HP Enterprise while HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) continued to struggle with declining

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Go-Jek Hails its Way into the Club

It isn’t every day that one comes across a Billion Dollar Unicorn club member out of the South East Asian islands. Recently though, a localized ride-sharing and other sharing services provider Go-Jek has made big news by announcing its entry into the club.

Blue Nile Experimenting with Online to Offline Model

According to a Research and Markets report, the global jewelry market is projected to grow 5% annually to be worth $257 billion in 2017. The online fine jewelry market accounts for 4%–5% of this market and is expected to grow at a much faster rate to be worth 10% of the market share by 2020.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Hike is the Latest Entrant from India

According to eMarketer, the global mobile phone messaging apps user base grew 32% over the year to 1.4 billion consumers in 2015 and is expected to grow to 2.19 billion users by the year 2019. Over-the-top (OTT) mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and WeChat, have shown heavy usage in Asia-Pacific, which accounts

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Salesforce’s Buying Spree

The year 2016 has seen the valuations of quite a few cloud companies drop as they’re unable to grow at quite the frantic pace that investors demand. But bigger companies like Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) are milking this opportunity by going on a buying spree.

2016 IPO Prospects: The Trade Desk Files to List

According to eMarketer, digital ad spending will surpass TV ad spending by 2017. TV ad spending is expected to grow to $72.01 billion in the US by 2017 while the total digital ad spending will grow to $77.37 billion. By 2020, digital ad spending in the US is projected to grow to $105.21 billion.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Liepin, China’s Homegrown Recruitment Platform

According to Analysys International, China’s online recruitment industry grew 31% over the year in the fourth quarter of 2015 to RMB 1.24 billion (~$200 million). Sequentially, the market grew 12% over the quarter. The high growth market is helping create new Billion Dollar Unicorn members. One such player is executive talent focused Liepin.com.