Price-earnings-multiples contraction continued as the tech world broadly witnessed a shift from high value enterprise to consumer applications that, no less sophisticated, still called for greater emphasis on cost even as performance thresholds rose.
Stocks mostly waned and became monthly trading vehicles as end market demand shifted to cost-sensitive iPods, DVDs, data-capable cellphones and affordable notebook PCs from high value enterprise applications.
And of course there's MongoDB, the NoSQL database company that is NYC's highest funded and highest valued enterprise startup, that is a potential candidate for a 2015 IPO.
Initially aimed at "high value enterprise and government customers," EarthNow lists things like storm monitoring, illegal fishing vessels (or even pirates), forest fires, whale tracking, watching conflicts in real time and more.
We expect that through a controlled collision between two unicorns, between a unicorn and an equivalent high-value public enterprise, or even between two high-value public companies, there will be a positive transformation: a bigger and more credible merged entity providing better services and generating more revenue than the services and combined revenue of each company operating alone.
If you define MENA as the 6 'GCC' countries plus Egypt, Lebanon & Jordan you will find the highest value consumers, enterprises and entrepreneurs.
Academic health care enterprises are evolving into high-value, integrated, transparent systems that effectively compete for a market share and can impact the health of large populations.
But to achieve them, community forests need to be empowered with real rights over high-value forests, and supported to build competitive, socially just enterprises.
Singapore has few natural resources, so it must rely on manufacturing high-value goods and providing skilled services in health care, education, information technology and commercial enterprises.
The enterprise does not necessarily just buy IaaS if you plan to capture high-value, full-production landscapes.
