Apple’s Results Reassuring

Demand for smartphones and PCs has been on the wane, but Apple’s latest results beat estimates and prove that it can defy industry trends. However, declining iPad sales remain a cause of worry. Will its enterprise push pay off?

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Mogujie’s E-Commerce Pivot Pays Off

According to eMarketer, worldwide business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce sales are expected to reach $2.3 trillion by 2017. Billion Dollar Unicorn Club member Mogujie, which started as a Chinese Pinterest clone, turned to e-commerce and social shopping for monetization, much before Pinterest did.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Instacart Looks Shaky

According to Packaged Facts research firm, online spending on groceries was estimated to have generated about $23 billion in sales in 2014, a tiny 3.4% fraction of the total grocery spending of nearly $670 billion. Online grocery sales are however expected to quadruple to nearly $100 billion by 2019. It is a sector that is

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Bullhorn is in the Making

According to Gartner, the global CRM software market grew 13.3% in 2014 to reach $23.2 billion in 2014. Bullhorn, which recently made it to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation, has strong fundamentals and is a strong contender to be a Billion Dollar Unicorn.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: ZScaler Takes Security to the Cloud

According to a market report published by Transparency Market Research, the global cloud security market is projected to grow from $4.5 billion in 2014 to $12 billion by the year 2022. That translates to an impressive 12.8% annual growth rate. Billion Dollar Unicorn club member ZScaler is playing a key role in this rapidly growing industry.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Apttus Ready for IPO

According to a Forrester report, the public cloud market is expected to reach $191 billion by 2020, from $58 billion in 2013. Cloud applications, projected at $133 billion in 2020, are leading this growth; cloud platforms will generate $44 billion in revenue by 2020; and cloud business services will come in at $14 billion. Billion

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Tanium Simplifies Cyber Security

The increasingly ubiquitous Internet, mobile devices, social media, and the BYOD trend are making it difficult for enterprises to control the security of the thousands of devices in their network. In the recent past, most enterprises have seen a considerable spike in the number of cyber attacks. As a result, the cyber security sector is

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Baidu Bets Big on O2O

According to iResearch, the Online-to-Offline or O2O service industry is expected to grow between 20% and 50%. The CAGR in the reverse Offline to Online industry is expected to surpass 600%. Baidu is now keenly focused on tapping this opportunity.