10 Tech Companies To Keep an Eye On In 2013
#4 Square
Square is an electronic payment service that allows users in the United States and Canada to accept credit cards through their mobile phones, either by swiping the card on the Square device or by manually entering the details on the phone.
Last year Square made headlines when it announced a partnership with Starbucks and a $25-million investment from the coffee chain. In the first week of 2013, Starbucks announced it will start selling Square mobile card readers in 7,000 stores for $10. Square’s ubiquity seems inevitable, but only time will tell.
#3 Pinterest
Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, hobbies, and more. Users can browse other pinboards for inspiration,’re-pin' images to their own collections or 'like' photos.
This photo sharing site has over 23 million users who “pin” images and URLs onto their digital scrapbooks. Last year in May, the Palo Alto start-up received a $100-million infusion of fresh funding from an investment group led by Japanese online retailer Rakuten Inc., which valued the company at about $1.5 billion. Pinterest however is struggling to monetize its popularity according to the market analysts and may eventually go public or be bought out by another tech company eager to capitalize on the enormous appetite for visual images on the Web.
