Technology & Finance
Technology and Finance in 2011
The economic crisis hasn’t done much for the technology market over recent years but soon all that could change if
Technology and Finance
the equity markets remain stable. Information from Renaissance Capital suggests that only 20 technology companies went public between 2008 and 2009. For tech wizard entrepreneurs the red tape associated with going public does not seem to be appealing because of high bank rates, filing paperwork and being scrutinized in everything they do. The popular route to take for some of these successful companies is venture capital such as Facebook has recently achieved at plus $½ billion from Russian owned Digital Sky Technologies.
Several other tech firms are negotiating for similar deals including Groupon hoping to strike a $950 million deal with Fidelity, T. Rowe Price and Morgan Stanley. Several Chinese owned companies are considering going public on the American stock exchanges which will enhance the market and encourage investment in technology stocks. Up by over 50 percent from their original offer price the value of shares in technology companies, which have recently gone public, offer good investment returns. There are some high profile companies in this group but the vast majority of them are small, lesser known businesses which have all done extremely well.
RealPage which started trading in August as a software producer has almost doubled in share price as has the 3D technology company RealD, with share value going up by 60% since it went public in July. This may encourage smaller technology companies to follow suit.
Skype, the web chat site will possibly attain investment capital of $1 billion and there is speculation as to whether Facebook will also decide to go public with its trading value placed around $42.4 billion. Previous employees of the company want to sell their stock but Mark Zuckerberg, the company founder isn’t in any hurry to go public. If the company attains more than 500 shareholders it may be forced into a position to go public.
2011 may see technology firm stock becoming as popular as it was before the last recession as they gain popularity with big investors and high finance. Smartphones, with so many applications will soon become necessities in our daily lives. There is almost nothing you can’t do on them whether for business or pleasure. A close second is the Iphone on which the smartphone was based. Ipad’s slate is likely to become the technology of choice for information users and busy traveling executives. New technology orientated business systems are being offered by many of the large tech companies and soon your cell phone will become as efficient as your PC as speed increases as more applications become available.
Google TV may launch soon and the data held on their maps is now something we all take for granted. If we need to look something up in that line we go to Google and we can only speculate how much their marketing demographic database is worth.
India has a way to go to upgrade its technology so that everyone can watch TV on their PCs but there is likely to be an increase in the amount of people working from home as technology improves. The popularity of LED lighting is also likely to increase with public awareness of all things green as it uses less power and will become more affordable as demand increases.
Our reliance on all things online puts greater demand on technology companies to find ways for us to do things at the press of a button. We shop, work, do our banking and even socialize online. It may well be that in the next few years online activity will assist growth of the economy and play a major part in getting us out of the recession.
Almost all technology companies expect to take on more staff during the coming year which will have a good effect on unemployment figures. Small business owners will have a huge and diverse range of new technology available to them and they will not need to be computer whiz kids to master touch screens.
There is high demand for security and cloud computing services with technology companies investing more time and money to secure their share of this very lucrative market. Information technology is likely to yield $3.4 trillion as more companies utilize cloud computing to access external data centers online. This technology together with alternative power, the Internet and life sciences will also attract investors and venture capitalists.
Data storage services are now much in demand leading HP, the largest PC manufacturer in the world, to spend $2.35 billion on the acquisition of the data storage company 3Par Inc. Among the nine companies purchased by HP last year was Palm Inc., the well known handset manufacturer, which was acquired for $1.2 billion. The largest computer services provider in the world, IBM, made 16 acquisitions last year including Netezza Corp., for $1.7 billion whilst $960 million was spent by Dell on Compellent Technologies Inc. The computer giants are certainly intent on servicing the demand for information technology and data storage services.
Microsoft is still riding on the back of customer loyalty but to maintain its position it will need to develop smart phones and tablets to fend off competition. The company is working on developing a new version of Windows for tablet compatibility but given the current activity within technology companies it will need to speed up its act to stay in the race. One of the options open to Microsoft is to enhance the Kinect technology for games so that it will work on other types of computers.
Kinect does not need any controller to interpret gestures or to recognize individual users. There are also plans to provide greater security and privacy features into Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 2011 browser which have not been available in previous versions. Technology companies have become more imaginative, innovative and successful despite the recession and it will be interesting to watch how they meet the challenges set by consumer demand in 2011.
Technology and Finance in 2011
The economic crisis hasn’t done much for the technology market over recent years but soon all that could change if the equity markets remain stable. Information from Renaissance Capital suggests that only 20 technology companies went public between 2008 and 2009. For tech wizard entrepreneurs the red tape associated with going public does not seem to be appealing because of high bank rates, filing paperwork and being scrutinized in everything they do.
The popular route to take for some of these successful companies is venture capital such as Facebook has recently achieved at plus $½ billion from Russian owned Digital Sky Technologies. Several other tech firms are negotiating for similar deals including Groupon hoping to strike a $950 million deal with Fidelity, T.Rowe Price and Morgan Stanley.
Several Chinese owned companies are considering going public on the American stock exchanges which will enhance the market and encourage investment in technology stocks. Up by over 50 percent from their original offer price the value of shares in technology companies, which have recently gone public, offer good investment returns. There are some high profile companies in this group but the vast majority of them are small, lesser known businesses which have all done extremely well.
RealPage which started trading in August as a software producer has almost doubled in share price as has the 3D technology company RealD, with share value going up by 60% since it went public in July. This may encourage smaller technology companies to follow suit.
Skype, the web chat site will possibly attain investment capital of $1 billion and there is speculation as to whether Facebook will also decide to go public with its trading value placed around $42.4 billion. Previous employees of the company want to sell their stock but Mark Zuckerberg, the company´s founder isn’t in any hurry to go public. If the company attains more than 500 shareholders it may be forced into a position to go public.
2011 may see technology firm stock becoming as popular as it was before the last recession as they gain popularity with big investors and high finance. Smartphones, with so many applications will soon become necessities in our daily lives. There is almost nothing you can’t do on them whether for business or pleasure. A close second is the Iphone on which the smartphone was based. Ipad’s slate is likely to become the technology of choice for information users and busy travelling executives. New technology orientated business systems are being offered by many of the large tech companies and soon your cell phone will become as efficient as your PC as speed increases and more applications become available
Google TV may launch soon and the data held on their maps is now something we all take for granted. If we need to look something up in that line we go to Google and we can only speculate how much their marketing demographic database is worth.
India has a way to go to upgrade its technology so that everyone can watch TV on their PCs but there is likely to be an increase in the amount of people working from home as technology improves. The popularity of LED lighting is also likely to increase with public awareness of all things green as it uses less power and will become more affordable as demand increases.
Our reliance on all things online puts greater demand on technology companies to find ways for us to do things at the press of a button. We shop, work, do our banking and even socialize online. It may well be that in the next few years online activity will assist growth of the economy and play a major part in getting us out of the recession.
Almost all technology companies expect to take on more staff during the coming year which will have a good effect on unemployment figures. Small business owners will have a huge and diverse range of new technology available to them and they will not need to be computer whiz kids to master touch screens.
There is high demand for security and cloud computing services with technology companies investing more time and money to secure their share of this very lucrative market. Information technology is likely to yield $3.4 trillion as more companies utilize cloud computing to access external data centers online. This technology together with alternative power, the Internet and life sciences will also attract investors and venture capitalists.
Data storage services are now much in demand leading HP, the largest PC manufacturer in the world, to spend $2.35 billion on the acquisition of the data storage company 3Par Inc. Among the nine companies purchased by HP last year was Palm Inc., the well known handset manufacturer, which was acquired for $1.2 billion. The largest computer services provider in the world, IBM , made 16 acquisitions last year including Netezza Corp., for $1.7 billion whilst $960 million was spent by Dell on Compellent Technologies Inc. The computer giants are certainly intent on servicing the demand for information technology and data storage services.
There is high demand for security and cloud computing services with technology companies investing more time and money to secure their share of this very lucrative market. The market is continually being flooded by new companies offering cloud security and cloud resources. New services and organizations such as cloud computing at trendmicro.com are sprouting up not only in North America and Europe, but in Asia and Oceania as well. Information technology is likely to yield $3.4 trillion as more companies utilize cloud computing to access external data centers online. This technology together with alternative power, the Internet and life sciences will also attract investors and venture capitalists.
Microsoft is still riding on the back of customer loyalty but to maintain its position it will need to develop smart phones and tablets to fend off competition. The company is working on developing a new version of Windows for tablet compatibility but given the current activity within technology companies it will need to speed up its act to stay in the race. One of the options open to Microsoft is to enhance the Kinect technology for games so that it will work on other types of computers. Kinect does not need any controller to interpret gestures or to recognize individual users. There are also plans to provide greater security and privacy features into Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 2011 browser which have not been available in previous versions. Technology companies have become more imaginative, innovative and successful despite the recession and it will be interesting to watch how they meet the challenges set by consumer demand in 2011.