Tableau Faces Increasing Competition

According to Gartner, the business intelligence (BI) and analytics market is in the final stages of a multi-year shift from IT-led, system-of-record reporting to business-led, self-service analytics. Global revenue in the BI and analytics market is forecast to grow 5.2% over the year and reach $16.9 billion in 2016.

Energy Recovery Expands in the Middle East

According to a MarketsandMarkets research report on Water Desalination Equipment Market, the water desalination industry is estimated to grow 9% annually to be worth $15.27 billion by 2018. The report cites that the Middle East region is the largest market for water desalination equipment as it is witnessing the biggest number of activities in utilities,

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From Unicorn to Unicorpse: Jive Software Beats Estimates

According to a ReportsnReports research report, the global enterprise social software market is projected to grow 11.3% annually from $4.77 billion in 2014 to $8.14 billion in 2019. However, ever since it went public in December 2011, enterprise social software provider Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE) has seen its valuation dwindle from $1.5 billion to around

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Baidu Fighting Regulatory Challenges

Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) has been struggling in recent quarters due to regulatory pressure. The company, however, has been moving beyond search to other areas like online video and autonomous cars, and its latest venture is into Augmented Reality (AR).

ServiceNow Diversifies

According to recent reports on the cloud services, global spending on public cloud Infrastructure as a Service hardware and software is estimated to grow to $38 billion in 2016 and the market is estimated to grow to $173 billion in 2026. The Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) parts of cloud hardware

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Alphabet Reaches Record High

After a disappointing quarter to start the year with, Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOG) appears to have got its groove back. The company’s recently reported results helped push the stock to a record high. And with its continued investment in the Cloud and Video, Alphabet’s growth won’t end soon.

Amazin’ Amazon

It sounds like a broken record when it comes to Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) earnings. The company delivered another stellar quarter that even recorded its biggest profits ever. And most of it is thanks to the cloud.

The Unstoppable Facebook

A report by eMarketer released earlier this year expects US Digital Video ad spend to grow from $7.46 billion in 2015 to $9.59 billion in 2016. The market is projected to be worth $14.77 billion by the year 2019 with mobile accounting for $6.82 billion of the share. Social networking giant Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) has

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