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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Zendesk and Freshdesk in Expansion Mode
According to a recent Gartner report, the global customer relationship management (CRM) software market is estimated to have grown to $23.2 billion in 2014, up 13.3% from $20.4 billion in 2013. SaaS accounted for almost 47% of the market driven by organizations of all sizes looking for easier-to-deploy and faster-ROI alternatives to modernizing legacy systems,
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Expect Acquisitions From ServiceNow
According to Gartner, the IT operations management (ITOM) software market grew 7% to reach nearly $21 billion in 2014. The ITOM landscape is undergoing transformation as legacy multi-segment players give way to a new generation of suppliers that are growing more rapidly than the market average. Billion Dollar Unicorn club member ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) is one such
Is Content Or Web 3.0 The Answer For Yahoo?
According to ComScore, for the third quarter of last year, Facebook led the display ad market in the U.S. Overall display ads grew to 1.3 trillion displays, registering 22% growth over the year. Facebook alone had 297 billion display ad impressions in quarter, translating to 23.1% market share compared with 9.2% in the previous year. Yahoo!
Twitter Needs To Accelerate Monetization
I haven’t said all that much on Twitter thus far. The hype machine on the Internet, meanwhile, does constantly spew stuff about the microblogging service. But I will start covering Twitter once a quarter as part of our Tech Stocks coverage, alongside a few other private companies, including Facebook. Facebook has more than 500 million
Content Players Contemplating iPad Effect
Ad spend analysts labeled 2009 as one of the worst years in terms of ad numbers. Ad spending in 2009 fell 10.2% over the year, according to ZenithOptimedia. Numbers are expected to improve in 2010, which should see 0.9% growth over the year to $448 billion. Overall ad spend is expected to continue to grow
Changing Business Mix At HP And Dell
Over the past decade, IBM (NYSE: IBM) has exited commoditized businesses and shifted its focus to high-margin software and services. HP is taking a different path of diversifying its portfolio to capitalize on the trend towards converged infrastructure products that integrate storage, networking, servers, and management software. In 2008, HP acquired EDS for $13.9 billion,