It is so interesting to
watch a modern technology market developing. It is amazing to watch a new
company emerging and growing into an incredibly popular service that all of a
sudden attracts investors and makes its founders rich and famous. At some point,
all start up were little known but because of a powerful promotion and unique
features they quickly made their way up to the top. Some of us had an
opportunity to watch Google growing. Many folks enjoyed explosion of Facebook.
How many of you believed in Twitter? Well, all of these companies are extremely
successful at the moment. In this post I suggest a few companies to watch in
2013. Don’t worry, there won’t be any little known startups. All of the
companies are already well known. Some of them are giants, while others are
only making their first steps to join the top club of market leaders.
Tumblr
You know what Tumblr is.
This is a social network created by a 26 y.o. David Karp. Tumblr is
particularly popular with young people. As for now, it belongs to top 10 sites
in the US. The company was acquired by Yahoo, or at least there are such
gossips. ThereforeYahoo and Co. have certain expectations as to monetization of
Tumblr. Let’s see if it will be a successful year for this social network. Yes,
Tumblr is young and immature, and nobody knows how market reacts on emergence
of this player. Odds are that it will be a success. Good luck, Tumblr!
Leap Motion
How about controlling
your PC purely with motions? This is a hot technology these days. Although Leap
Motion has not released its final product, the company has already managed to
gather $30 million in funding and signed a partnership agreement with Asus.
Motion sensor technologies are technologies of tomorrow. Leap Motion is the
first in the line and will be the first to deliver something innovative.
Instagram
Who hasn’t heard of
Instagram? It looks like these days, when young people come to a restaurant,
their first off take pics of their food, upload them to Instagram, and only
then start eating. Instagram has been acquired by Facebook for $715 million.
So, if Mark Zuckerberg thinks Instagram is that valuable, he also has some
expectations on how to earn money with it.
Yahoo
The company is going
through changes. Well, it is not easy to stay afloat if you have Google as a
rival. However, with a new CEO, Yahoo seems to make the right steps. Of course,
it is virtually impossible to cut off a piece of Google’s pie, but the new
initiatives should give Yahoo the second birth after a decline caused by
Google’s hegemony.
Foursquare
This is a social network
that is location based. Foursquare founders have spent much time recently
looking for funding. Apple has been rumored to have interest in Foursquare but
of course, these rumors are not confirmed by any official statements. These
guys are not in a condition where they have either to grow or shrink.
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Aleksey
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