31. COLLABORATIVE
ECONOMY
Social media has the potential to be as
important to the broader economy as more
obviously business-related information
technologies such as mobile phones and
cloud computing,sales of software to run
corporate social networks will grow 61% a
year and be a $6.4 billion business by 2016.
said Stacey Bishop, a venture capitalist at
Scale Venture Partners, in Foster City, Calif.