2013 Nine Tech trends: Giants will buy cloud companies aggressively

U.S. Science and Technology blog Business Insider recently published an article on the 2013 will emerge in nine major technology industry trends, pointing out that these trends will bring tens of billions of of dollars in profit opportunities. The article points out that the four major technology industry development trends in the 2012 will become "bigger" next year, that is, mobile, social, cloud and large data. In this regard, market research firm IDC has made bolder predictions that these trends will be fully launched next year, creating a market worth tens of billions of of dollars. The following are the nine major scientific and technological trends predicted by Business Insider in the past 2013 years:

1, 2013 Global technology industry total expenditure will reach 2.1 trillion U.S. dollars

The company is ready to upgrade to the latest technology, and consumers will open their wallets, buy smartphones, tablets and apps. Overall, it spending will grow nearly 6% next year.

2, emerging market countries in the technology industry will grow rapidly

The demand for technology in emerging markets will really be "at full throttle". It spending in Latin America, Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Middle East will reach $730 billion trillion next year, up nearly 9% per cent year-on-year. For it vendors, One-third of the customers will come from these areas.

3. For some mobile companies, 2013 will be the year of "no success"

In terms of mobile business, 2013 will bring us the following three things:

--a small Tablet PC with a screen size of 8 inches will be rage, representing a 60% percentage of the overall Tablet PC sales.

--the smartphone and Tablet PC market will grow by 20%;

For mobile platforms, 2013 will be a year of "no success", and mobile platforms that cannot attract the interest of at least 50% app developers will not survive. Google and Apple have crossed the threshold, and Microsoft is currently 33%,rim only 9%.

4. Large IT companies will aggressively buy smaller cloud computing companies

Software as a service (SaaS) has grown significantly over the past 12 months, and large manufacturers such as Oracle and SAP have invested heavily in mergers and acquisitions in the market.

The trend will continue: "Over the next 20 months, the total volume of mergers and acquisitions in the software-services sector will exceed $25 billion trillion, up from $17 billion trillion over the past 20 months," IDC said. ”

Some cloud companies are too overvalued to be an easy target, such as a publicly traded salesforce.com with a market capitalisation of $22 billion trillion, or a fast-growing private company Box, valued at $1.2 billion trillion. But for large IT companies, the time to acquire other smaller cloud companies may be ripe, such as Okta, Zenoss and ServiceMax.

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