Gartner Says Worldwide IT Spending on Pace to Grow 2.1 Percent in 2014

http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2783517

Table 1. Worldwide IT Spending Forecast (Billions of U.S. Dollars)

	2013 Spending	2013 Growth (%)	2014 Spending	2014 Growth (%)	2015 Spending	2015 Growth (%)
Devices	677	1.1	685	1.2	725	5.8
Data Center Systems	140	-0.1	140	0.4	144	2.9
Enterprise Software	300	5.1	321	6.9	344	7.3
IT Services	932	0.0	967	3.8	1,007	4.1
Telecom Services	1,624	-1.2	1,635	0.7	1,668	2.0
Overall IT	3,673	0.0	3,749	2.1	3,888	3.7

Source: Gartner (June 2014) 

bubble bubble...

http://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-files-for-ipo-2011-6?op=1

Groupon - THE CRUCIAL DETAILS:

• Groupon lost $413 million in 2010.

• 2010 revenues totaled $713 million.

• Groupon's first quarter 2011 revenues reached $645 million.

• Groupon's international business accounted for 37.2%, or $265 million, of the company's total revenues in 2010.

• In 2010 and the first quarter of 2011, Groupon spent $241.5 million and $179.9 million, respectively, on online marketing initiatives relating to subscriber acquisition.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/02/pandora-prices-ipo-at-7-to-9-per-share/


Pandora Prices IPO At $7 To $9 Per Share At Valuation Over $1B, Raising $141.6M

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