9 Tech Trends That Will Make Someone Billions Of Dollars Next Year

Market research firm IDC has looked into its crystal ball and predicted which tech trends will unfold next year — generating billions of dollars.

Mike Ellsworth‘s insight:

Here are the trends to watch for 2014:

People and companies will spend $2.1 trillion on technology

Countries outside the U.S. and Europe will buy tech like crazy

Business will pour money into the cloud

Amazon and Google will start a war for the cloud

Mobile devices will go nuts — endangering Microsoft

Big data gets bigger

Social networking software gets absorbed

The rise of crowdsourced innovations

The Internet of Things becomes an actual thing

Via @BrennerMichael