2016 IPO Prospects: Zscaler Sets IPO as a Long-Term Goal

A recent report published by MarketsandMarkets estimates the Security-as-a-Service Market to grow from $3.12 billion in 2015 to $8.52 billion by the year 2020 at 22.2% annuallly over the next five years. The research firm expects the healthcare vertical to command the highest share of the market. Growth in the industry will continue to be

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eBay Floundering Again

After spinning off PayPal last year, the market was worried about eBay’s (Nasdaq: EBAY) ability to sustain sound performance. After a couple of quarters of impressive results, the market’s worries appear to have caught up with eBay. The recent results were unimpressive and concerns about its ability to deliver loom large again.

2016 IPO Prospects: Snapchat Needs to Up Monetization ASAP

According to a recent eMarketer report, the global mobile phone messaging app user market was estimated to have grown 32% over the year to 1.4 billion users worldwide in 2015. The sector is dominated by Whatsapp, which recently announced a milestone membership of more than 1 billion active users, and Facebook Messenger – both of

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The Fall of Mighty Zenefits

A MarketsandMarkets report pegs the HCM market to be worth $17.5 billion by the year 2019. The market was estimated to be worth $10.96 billion in 2014, translating to an annualized growth of 9.8% over the five year period. But the high growth in the market has not been of much help to former Unicorn

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Netflix Investing Heavily to Add Subscribers

Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) appears to have hit a bit of a roadblock as it continues to grapple with a saturated domestic market. The company plans to address the issues through content and geography expansion. But all of that comes at a cost.

ServiceNow A Collateral Damage?

Early this month when Tableau turned in a disappointing quarter, several cloud stocks took a hammering. ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW) was one of the cloud stocks to undergo a steep price decline of almost 40%. It lost almost $4 billion in value even after beating analyst’s revenue and earnings estimates and becoming the second cloud company to cross

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Facebook Will Continue to Rise

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) recently turned twelve and what an exciting twelve years they have been. The company has constantly defied market speculation on its valuation and capabilities. When it went public in 2012, Facebook became the biggest ever tech IPO, surpassing Google’s listing price. And things haven’t stopped looking up since. The company is now

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2016 IPO Prospects: Twilio Expected to go Public Soon

A recent Research and Markets report on the Global Web-Based Real-Time communication market projects the industry to grow 36% annually over the period 2016 through 2020. While the biggest vendors in the market are Cisco, Ericsson, Google, and Mozilla, other smaller vendors are also making their presence felt. One such player is San Francisco-based Twilio.