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2009 Predictions for the Software Market
At the beginning of each year the BINC team gets together and creates a list of predictions for the year to come. It was interesting to see how many of our 2008 predictions actually came true. Here are our predictions for 2009; it will be intriguing to see how many of these actually prove to be true:
Mel Condos
1. Sales people will be in high demand
2. Wii games will proliferate the market
3. Top engineers and PM’s will always be in demand
4. Mobile and remote working apps will grow
5. VOIP will grow
Grant Neckermann
1. Yahoo sells in chunks
2. AOL returns to consumer spotlight
3. Wii gets 1st major competitor
4. Venture Funding Falls 60%
5. No major IPO’s in web
Eli Arzhevskiy
1. THQ will be bought
2. Activision will continue to dominate
3. EA will start to make a come back
4. National Gaming will be a good practice
5. My market will dominate yours… 
Boris Epstein
1. Microsoft will buy Facebook
2. Yahoo will reemerge as market player
3. Enterprise 2.0 and mobile will dominate
4. Facebook will figure out how to make money
Iditta Yuchourellu
1. Web 3.0 will take over web 2.0
2. Many new start ups with launch
3. Many of those will fail after launch
4. Yahoo will do extremely well compared to 2008
Tawny Labrum
1. Social Networks like Twitter will be the #1 source for news
2. Steve Jobs will retire due to sickness
3. Techcrunch will go under
4. Cell phone applications will be the hottest thing in the industry
5. Amazon Kindle will flop
Georgina Paolino
1. Enterprise 2.0 will be bigger than web
2. Apple will come out with a touch screen monitor
3. Yahoo will get bought out
4. Vista will be replaced by Windows 7
5. Google will buy Facebook
Brian Harold
1. Two larger social networks will merge (possibly Twitter/Facebook, etc)
2. Mobile gaming will become a big deal for a much wider audience.
3. A company will find a way to successfully appeal to the population with an Internet/TV combination of some kind.
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BINC TV on Gaming Companies, Twitter and 2009 Software Companies
This week they guys from BINC TV talked about three different subjects. The first part went into the gaming industry and even though the economy is in a recession the gaming industry seems to be doing well. In the second part they spoke about that the upcoming trends in software will be in 2009, and finally the third part was spent talking about the most recent Yahoo layoffs and how social networking and micro blogging sites like Twitter helped the public stay on top of who got laid off and what was going on inside the closed doors of Yahoo. Hope you enjoy.
Part 1
There have been many articles lately stating that the video game industry is recession proof, but there have also been mass layoffs at certain game companies. For the month of November video game sales reached a high of over 3 million dollars. This success is due to the Christmas season and the popularity if the Nintendo Wii. What will companies like EA, Activision and THQ do to keep up with the competition?
Part 2
2008 didn’t end to well for software companies, but 2009 is still to come. There is some talk about nearing the bottom of the software market recession. Once we are out of the recession what companies will lead the way out of the recession. Companies like Microsoft and Google have the proven business model to hold strong and have been around for a while. Will newer companies like Facebook and Twitter pull out strong? Or will Yahoo resurface?
Part 3
Twitter has proven itself to be right on the lines of breaking news. This was found true during the recent Yahoo! layoffs. As employees were getting handed their pink slips, they would twitter the details of their departure from Yahoo! on their Twitter account. Twitter readers would be up to date on the layoffs before the news channels had time to set up shop outside the Yahoo! headquarters.
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