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Company Valuation and Investors – What are the Different Types of Valuations and Approaches in Company Valuation?

Valuation of a company is more of an art than a science.  No formula is fixed for business valuation of a company.  Valuation becomes very important in the eyes of the investors.  It is a basis on which an investor assumes that the venture will be capable of returning or not returning the amount invested on it. There exists a lot of confusion around the concept of valuation of a company and its actual value.  Generally, value of a company is its market cap (or) market capitalization and it Read more [...]

Disruptive Innovation –How will Disruptive Innovation Shape the Future of Market? – New Technology Innovations that will Disrupt the Existing Market

A lot of new companies, and a few existing players in the market have contributed toward disruptive innovation in the recent past.  Companies such as Amazon, Netflix, Uber, Airbnb have changed their business models or modified their competitor’s business models to establish new market for themselves.  Some of the transformation that resulted in market disruption due to change in business models is shown in the figure below: With all the above transformations, disruptive innovation has Read more [...]

IT Hardware Retail Landscape in India – Major Retail Hardware Chains in India and Market Challenges.

There are multiple micro and macroeconomic indicators which are supporting growth potential for India in the coming years.  These metrics are strong demographics, young working population, rising income levels, rapid urbanization, growing brand orientation and many more. India’s retail industry has emerged as one of the fastest growing industry and is projected to grow almost to US$1 trillion by 2020 from the market size of US$ 600 billion in 2015, driven by income growth, urbanization and Read more [...]

Global Venture Capital Investments Touching New Heights in 2015 with $128.5 B Worth VC Backed-up Ventures – Trends and Major Industry Ventures

Venture Capitals are showing great interest to invest on startups and established businesses around the globe.  Worldwide, venture capitals had invested US$128.5 billion in 2015. The figure comparison of venture investments for the years 2014 and 2015 clearly shows that the investment scenario is booming.  We can see that there was 44% increase in the investments made from VCs, and VCs have raised US$89 billion in 2014, which was further increased to US$128 billion in 2015.  The annual Read more [...]

A Facial Personality Profiling Technology – Future of Fighting Terrorism

Face profiling technology is a new concept which will have applications in multiple industries.  This technology can even be used to identify terrorists, pedophile and poker players, among other types of people by analyzing their facial traits.  It can analyze faces from video streams (recorded and live), cameras, or online/offline databases and match an individual with various personality traits. Faces are tagged under different personality profiles, and each is known as a classifier.  The Read more [...]

The New Era of Disruptive Innovation – Impacts of Disruptive Innovation and the Ways of Disrupting the Market

Disruptive innovation, or the Darwin Theory of technology and business models, has changed the way of living in the past two decades.  Disruptive Innovation, as the name suggests, is an innovation of technology or a business model, which disrupts the market of the existing technology to evolve to a new one.  This term came into existence in 1997, when a Harvard professor and a well-known businessman, Clayton Christensen, penned it in his book, The Innovator’s Dilemma.  Since then, it has been Read more [...]

Global Cloud War: Amazon Web Services vs Microsoft Azure vs Google Cloud Platform: The Current Market Scenario

The year 2015 marked a new era in Cloud Service Provider (CSP) space.  Last year, the market witnessed two major players come off age, and challenged the leader in the market head-on.  Although Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a head start in the market (being in the business for the longest time), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform were not left far behind.  Both of the relatively new comers in the industry took the market by surprise in the technology as well as in promotional front.  Read more [...]

Virtual Reality in Ecommerce: Will it Transplant Real Time Shopping Experience in Ecommerce?

The growth of e-commerce in recent years has opened up new trading avenue for enterprises.  The websites are playing an important role as the medium of information dissemination.  Many studies have shown that 2-D representations of products are no longer impressive on websites than before, since demands for custom-designed products are rapidly increasing.  Due to arrival of high-speed network and advance in computer graphics, the Virtual Reality (VR) technology emerged as alternative way to resolve Read more [...]

Global Predictive Analytics Market To Reach USD 9.20 Billion By 2020 – How Predictive Analytics will Impact your Business?

Predictive analytics is the practice of extracting information from existing data in order to determine patterns and predict future outcomes and trends.  Predictive analytics does not tell you what will happen in the future.  It forecasts what might happen in the future with an acceptable level of reliability, and includes what-if scenarios and risk assessment. The global predictive analytics market to grow from USD 2.74 Billion in 2015 to USD 9.20 Billion by 2020, at an estimated compound annual Read more [...]

Technology Impact on Translation Industry and Global Outlook 2020

The economic growth, accelerated global trade, and improvement in technology have brought higher importance to the the local languages n Asia and Africa as well.  Big software firms like Microsoft find it profitable to localize their wares in small languages like Vlach, Belarusian or Luxembourgish.  There are multiple languages and dialects exist in different countries and even in Europe, the European Union members have to communicate in in 24 tongues.  Translation is no longer usually to or from Read more [...]
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