Entrepreneurship, Innovation

Buy the most weird and wonderful trends of 2019 before it’s too late

Supporting start-ups in a legacy business requires changes in both skill sets and mind-sets.

Asia-Pacific is on track to top 50 percent of global GDP by 2040 and drive 40 percent of the world’s consumption, Asia's future represents a real shift in the world’s center of gravity.

The year 2019 is coming to an end and here we do a review of the best performing cloud stocks of 2019 and the most promising for 2020. The criteria for making this list are a strong strategy or performance in Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and robust Developer Ecosystems. Large Players with Revenue over $10B 1. The top company that leads on these fronts is Salesforce.com. Its PaaS offering and developer ecosystem are leaps and bounds ahead of any other company and it has also been executing well on its AI offering, Einstein. Salesforce expects to end the year with revenues of $16.99-$17 billion. Further analysis is available here and here. Salesforce's stock has climbed about 35% from its 52-week low of $120.16 in December last year. It is currently trading at $162, close to its 52-week high of $167.57 that it touched in April. Its market cap is $144 billion. 2. Microsoft has executed well on its PaaS strategy thus far. Early this year, it