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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Udacity Leans on Industry Giants for Monetization
The rise of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has given rise to several startups like Coursera, EdX, and Udacity with a mission to provide high quality education to students anywhere in the world. However, MOOCs came with its own set of problems like low course completion rates and monetization. Udacity has come up with solutions
Billion Dollar Unicorns: For Magic Leap, Unicorn Status No Longer Virtual
According to Digi-Capital, augmented reality devices are expected to deliver $90 billion in revenues by the year 2020. On the other hand, virtual reality headsets are expected to generate only $30 billion in revenues by 2020. Technology giants have already started investing in the market. Two years ago, Facebook acquired Oculus Rift, another virtual reality
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Uptake Joins the Club
According to the IDC, global organizations were expected to spend about $120 billion in 2015 to connect factory operations, building systems, and mobile equipment in the field to the Internet of Things. Gartner reports that in 2014, 278 million factory machines, construction vehicles, and other pieces of industrial equipment were connected to the Internet of
Billion Dollar Unicorns: WePiao Succeeds in Online Ticketing in China
According to China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, the country’s box office revenues grew 48% last year to RMB40 billion (~US$6.2 billion). During the year, cinema goers increased by 48% as well to 1.14 billion. China is seeing a big push in online and mobile purchase of movie tickets. Reports suggest
SAP is Also Counting on the Cloud and Analytics
Analysts believe that despite the increased adoption of cloud-based services, even by the year 2020, on-premise ERP software would continue to have a bigger market share. On-premise ERP solutions are expected to account for 57% of the ERP market. But cloud-based ERP would be the fastest growing solution with a CAGR of 10% during the
Ping Identity Getting Ready for IPO
According to Allied Market Research, the global cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) market is expected to reap in revenue of $2.8 billion by 2020 at a CAGR of 26.2% during period 2015 to 2020. Ping Identity is a key player and pioneer in this market.
Local Reviews Sites Re-evaluating Monetization Models
According to a BIA/Kelsey report, the Yellow Pages industry is expected to grow to $7 billion this year. Bigger vendors like Facebook and Google are also entering the market by creating their own versions of review-based yellow pages. Their entry is hurting the market where digital players are already struggling to make it a worthwhile
Alibaba Invests Globally to Regain Glory
Two years ago, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) went public at the biggest US IPO ever when it raised $21.8 billion at a valuation of $167.6 billion. Soon after, the stock continued to skyrocket and was soon trading at valuations north of $215 billion. Since then though, the company’s ride has been bumpy. Its