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The funds are flowing left, right and centre. The next one in line to raise funds is <keyword id="6381424" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Quikr">Quikr</keyword>, one of India’s top classified websites, who has managed to raise $60 million. The funds come from Tiger Global Management, a global investment firm. Quikr’s current investors include <keyword id="6402698" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Warburg-Pincus">Warburg Pincus</keyword>, <keyword id="215055" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="eBay-Inc-">Ebay Inc.</keyword> and <keyword id="833690" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Nokia-Growth-Partners">Nokia Growth Partners</keyword>. 
 
“The explosive growth in mobile Internet is fundamentally reshaping the Indian classified Internet market, and we are well positioned to be at the forefront of this growth,” said Pranay Chulet, Founder and CEO of Quikr. “This <keyword id="6357455" type="EVENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="Funding">funding</keyword> round is a powerful validation of our local knowledge and connections, skilled execution and quality management team. We are excited to welcome Tiger Global to Quikr as we continue to further grow our platform”. 
 
“Quikr has grown rapidly to become one of India’s major classifieds players with a deep understanding of the local market,” said Lee Fixel, Partner at Tiger Global Management. 
 The new capital should help Quikr to expand its reach and grow the company by leaps and bounds in India. Quikr is one of the most popular choice to post free classified ads online in India and people can purchase everything from a mobile phone to cars on this web portal. <keyword id="6360657" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="OLX">OLX</keyword>.in is another classified website in India, who are considered to be the main competition to Quikr.

Quikr Has Managed To Raise $60 Million For Future Growth And Projects

<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=snapdeal&amp;sortorder=effectivedate" data-type="tilCustomLink">Snapdeal’s</a> three major investors- <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=softbank&amp;sortorder=effectivedate" data-type="tilCustomLink">SoftBank</a>, Nexus Venture Partners and Kalaari Capital- have already agreed for e-commerce’s sale out to<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=flipkart&amp;sortorder=effectivedate" data-type="tilCustomLink"> Flipkart</a>. But, apart from these, a nod from <keyword id="6419840" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Azim-Premji">Azim Premji</keyword> and <keyword id="6360722" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="ratan-tata">Ratan Tata</keyword> is also required as they too have stakes in <keyword id="541988" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="SnapDeal">Snapdeal</keyword>. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-16/flipkart-pact-for-snapdeal-said-to-need-premji-tata-approvals">Bloomberg</a> reported, as per the contract, Snapdeal needs backing from the two of India's most powerful businessmen. Nod from Premji, Tata and other several important investors is still awaited. “If due diligence goes smoothly, a term sheet specifying cash and stock for each shareholder will follow and a final agreement could be signed by mid- to late June,” Bloomberg quoted sources as saying. When the sale happens, Snapdeal's Kunal Bahl and <keyword id="396598" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rohit-Bansal">Rohit Bansal</keyword> will together receive about $30 million with a similar sum to be set aside for Snapdeal's nearly 2,000 employees. <keyword id="1397792" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kalaari-Capital">Kalaari Capital</keyword>, one of the two early investors in the startup, is to get $30 million, while Nexus will receive twice that amount for its larger stake, they said. Kalaari's managing director <keyword id="1397790" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Vani-Kola">Vani Kola</keyword>, an early investor in Snapdeal, told Bloomberg that she has resigned from the startup's board. "I was done with what I needed to do,” Kola said, adding that she saw no conflict of interest. Meanwhile, this merger will give a boost to <keyword id="6354742" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Flipkart">Flipkart</keyword>’s battle against <keyword id="18635" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amazon">Amazon</keyword>, which is pumping in money in its Indian arm to grab a significant share in the market. Flipkart raised $1.4 billion from Tencent Holdings Ltd., Microsoft Corp. and EBay Inc, taking its valuation at $11.6 billion. "This is a landmark deal for Flipkart and for India,” the company's co-founders <keyword id="225032" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sachin-Bansal">Sachin Bansal</keyword> and <keyword id="6364080" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Binny-Bansal">Binny Bansal</keyword> said in a statement. "This deal reaffirms our resolve to hasten the transformation of commerce in India through technology.

Azim Premji, Ratan Tata’s nod also important for Flipkart-Snapdeal merger

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"><a href="http://www.glassdoor.com/Photos/eBay-Inc-Office-Photos-E7853_P3.htm">Glassdoor/eBay</a>How ebay sees the future of commerce</div></div></div>BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EBay Inc initially believed that its customers' data was safe as forensic investigators reviewed a network security breach discovered in early May and made public this week, a senior executive told Reuters on Friday.
EBay has come under fire over its handling of the cyberattack, in which hackers accessed personal data of all 145 million users, ranking it among the biggest such attacks launched on a corporation to date.
"For a very long period of time we did not believe that there was any eBay customer data compromised," global marketplaces chief Devin Wenig said, in the first comments by a top eBay executive since the e-commerce company disclosed the breach on Wednesday.
EBay moved "swiftly to disclose" the breach after it realized customer data was involved, he said.
Wenig would not say when the company first realized that the cyberattackers accessed customer data, nor how long it took to prepare Wednesday's announcement.
He said hackers got in using the credentials of three corporate employees, eventually making their way to the user database.
Hackers accessed email addresses and encrypted passwords belonging to all eBay users. "Millions" of users have since reset their passwords and the company had begun notifying users, though it would take some time to complete that task, Wenig said.
"You would imagine that anyone who has ever touched eBay is a large number," he said. "So we're going to send all of them an email, but sending that number all at once is not operationally possible."
At least three U.S. states are investigating the company's security practices. Customers have complained on social media about delayed notification emails. And New York's attorney general called on eBay to provide free credit monitoring services to users.
But the Internet retail giant has no plans to compensate customers or offer free credit monitoring for now because it had detected no financial fraud, Wenig said.
Wenig declined comment when asked if he thought eBay had good security prior to the breach. He said the company would now bolster its security systems, and has mobilized senior executives in a subsequent investigation of the attack.
"We want to make sure it doesn't happen again so we're going to continue to look our procedures, harden our operational environment and add levels of security where it's appropriate."
The breach marked the latest headache for eBay this year. In January, it crossed swords publicly with activist investor <a class="cite">Carl Icahn</a>, who mounted a campaign to get it to spin out PayPal. Then in April, the e-commerce company disappointed investors with a weak second-quarter outlook, pressuring its shares.
<h3>AVOIDING BACK DOORS</h3>
Buying and selling activity on eBay remained "fairly normal" though eBay is still working out the cost of the breach, which included hiring a number of security firms. Wenig, who was previously a senior executive at Thomson Reuters Corp, declined to comment on whether the cost could be material to eBay's results.
Wenig's revelation that the company initially believed that no customer data had been compromised might take some of the heat off eBay's executive team.
Cyber forensics experts said it's not uncommon for large companies to take weeks to grasp the full impact of an attack, because hackers are often able to steal data without leaving obvious clues.
"In some cases you go in and find the smoking gun immediately. Other times, it takes a few days or even a few weeks," said <a class="cite">Kevin Johnson</a>, a cyber-forensics expert who was not involved in the eBay investigation but has worked for other Fortune 500 companies.
<a class="cite">Daniel Clemens</a>, a forensics expert and CEO of <a class="cite">Packet Ninjas</a>, said investigators often ask companies to hold off on disclosure until they believe they understand the full extent of an attack. Otherwise, they risk tipping off attackers who might cover their tracks or leave "back doors" so they can return after the investigators complete their probe.
On Wednesday, the e-commerce company announced that hackers raided its network between late February and early March. The company said financial information was not compromised and its payments unit PayPal was not affected.
When eBay first discovered the network breach in early May, the senior team was immediately involved and held multiple daily calls on the issue. EBay staff have been working around the clock since Wednesday.
Wenig said he could not provide much more detail about what happened in the attack beyond the scant information given out so far. He declined to provide further specifics, citing ongoing investigations by the <a class="cite">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> and several forensics firms including <a class="cite">FireEye</a> Inc's Mandiant division. 
(Editing by Edwin Chan, Lisa Shumaker and Andrew Hay)

Cyber Thieves Took Data On 145 Million eBay Customers By Hacking 3 Corporate Employees

<keyword id="330063" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Silver-Lake">Silver Lake</keyword> Management LLC and partners are close to lining up about $15 billion in funds for a buyout of <keyword id="28251" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Dell">Dell</keyword> Inc., the third-biggest maker of personal computers, said people familiar with the matter.
A deal could be announced as soon as Jan. 22, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. Silver Lake, which is leading the effort with its limited partners, might be joined by other private-equity firms once the buyout is announced, said the same person.
Lenders including Credit Suisse Group AG, Royal Bank of Canada, Barclays Plc and Bank of America Corp. may informally disclose terms to a small group of possible buyers of the bridge loan as soon as today, said another person, who asked not be identified as the process is private. Dell’s enterprise value is about $19.7 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The lenders are informally canvassing debt investors to gauge whether they can parcel out pieces of the financing in a so-called syndication process once the deal is final, another person said. JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co., which is advising Round Rock, Texas-based computer maker Dell, would also provide so-called staple financing to the group led by Silver Lake, said one of the people.
The technology-focused buyout firm’s financing is crucial to completing a leveraged buyout of Dell, which would be the biggest since the financial crisis. The rest of the funds to take Dell private would come from Silver Lake and its partners, Dell itself or founder and Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell, said one of these people.
<h2>Data Focus</h2>
Dell, which lost almost a third of its value last year, is struggling amid competition from tablet makers such as Apple Inc. Going private may give Dell more room to overhaul the company’s corporate structure and focus on data-center equipment instead of PCs. Dell’s shares advanced 1.7 percent to $12.82 at the in New York.
Turning the computer maker into a private company would allow Michael Dell and his private-equity backers to manage the company’s finances differently, said a person familiar with the matter. For example, they could borrow money by securitizing accounts receivables, a move a public board and public shareholders would likely reject, said this person.
Dell needs more urgency and focus, said Erik Gordon, a professor of law and business at the University of Michigan. “It hasn’t diddled too long in PC-land because public stockholders tied its hands,” Gordon said in an e-mailed statement. “It was free to go into tablets and services, as did its competitors, but management chose not to.”
<h2>TPG Capital</h2>
David Frink, a spokesman for Dell, and Gemma Hart, a spokeswoman for Silver Lake, declined to comment. Officials at Credit Suisse, JPMorgan, Barclays, Bank of America, and Royal Bank declined to comment.
TPG Capital, which earlier looked at participating in a transaction, is unlikely to be part of any deal with Silver Lake, said a person familiar with the matter. KKR &amp; Co., which considered a deal with Dell last year, also isn’t likely to bid at this time, said another person. Representatives at TPG and KKR declined to comment.
Silver Lake has ammunition some other buyout firms don’t: It just raised $7 billion for a new fund that could swell to as much as $10 billion, two people familiar with the matter said this week, and that fund can only invest in technology companies. Michael Dell also was one of the early investors in Silver Lake’s initial fund of $2.3 billion.
<h2>Dell’s Stake</h2>
Under the current negotiations, Michael Dell, the top shareholder in the computer maker, would roll his stake into the buyout, said one of the people. Dell, 47, owns about 15.7 percent of the company, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, valuing his stake at $3.45 billion, based on yesterday’s closing price.
He and Glenn Hutchins, co-founder and Co-CEO of Silver Lake, are scheduled to attend the World Economic Forum, which takes place in Davos, Switzerland from Jan. 22 to Jan. 27.
Based on the company’s market value, a deal could be the largest buyout of a technology company since 2007, when KKR bought First Data Corp. for more than $25 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It might also be the biggest acquisition in the computer industry since Hewlett-Packard Co. bought Compaq Computer Corp. for about $19 billion more than a decade ago, the data show.
<h2>Technology Buyouts</h2>
Large leveraged buyouts have been scarce since the financial crisis. The biggest for the technology sector in the past two years was Blackstone Group LP’s $3 billion purchase of health-care billing company Emdeon Inc., according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Other technology companies, including disk-drive maker Seagate Technology Plc, have tried to go private and seen talks collapse over valuations or financing difficulties.
Silver Lake has been investing in technology companies since its founding in 1999. Its latest fund, Silver Lake Partners III LP, was generating an 18 percent net internal rate of return, according to data from California Public Employees’ Retirement System, a limited partner.
In 2009, the Menlo Park, California-based firm bought a majority stake in Skype Technologies SA from EBay Inc. in a deal that valued the calling service at $2.75 billion. Less than two years later, Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion.
While Skype yielded a threefold return for Silver Lake, another big bet didn’t. Silver Lake’s 2007 investment in communications equipment maker Avaya Holdings Corp. was marked at cost as of Dec. 31, 2011, meaning the firm has yet to book a profit on the deal, according to a marketing document.

Dell Could Go Private In $15 Billion Deal As Soon As Tuesday

<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image">REUTERS/Tim Shaffer<keyword id="6357395" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="eBay">EBay</keyword> founder and chairman Pierre Omidyar in Delaware, December 7, 2009. </div></div>SAN FRANCISCO (<keyword id="76338" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Reuters">Reuters</keyword>) - EBay Inc founder <a>Pierre Omidyar</a> has become the latest self-made tech baron to plunge into the struggling news industry - hot on the heels of Amazon.com Inc founder <a>Jeff Bezos</a>, who just paid $250 million for <a>the Washington Post</a>.
But unlike Bezos, the French-born Iranian American says he aims to build a new "mass media organization" from the ground up, and his first recruits are the journalists who exposed the <a class="cite">U.S. government</a>'s surveillance programs, using documents leaked by former spy agency contractor <a class="cite">Edward Snowden</a>.
The new venture puts Omidyar, 46, in the public eye after many years of relatively low-profile philanthropic and investment activities. While he has long supported efforts to promote transparency and accountability in government, including a local news website in his home state of <a class="cite">Hawaii</a>, Omidyar suggested that he is prepared to spend as much as Bezos did in buying the Post to take those efforts to a new level.
"I want to find ways to convert mainstream readers into engaged citizens," Omidyar wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.
Omidyar's new endeavor, as yet unnamed, will face myriad challenges. Established news organizations are struggling to find a viable financial model as print advertising and circulation plummet while online advertising dollars migrate to Google Inc and to automated ad exchanges that drive prices down. He has yet to offer any clues about his business strategy.
Media investments generally do not make good investments, said David Cowan, a partner at Bessemer Ventures. "I'm pretty sure Pierre doesn't think that a news startup is the best way to get richer," he said.
Born in <a class="cite">France</a> to Iranian parents, Omidyar grew up largely in the Washington, D.C. area, with a stint in <a class="cite">Hawaii</a>. He graduated from <a class="cite">Tufts University</a> near <a class="cite">Boston</a> in 1988 with a degree in computer science, and moved to Silicon Valley.
While working as a software engineer at then-hot personal-communications company General Magic, Omidyar came up with the idea for eBay in 1995 and worked on it as a hobby until it became big enough for him to quit his day job.
When eBay went public three years later, the then 31-year-old Omidyar's stake was valued at $611 million by the end of the trading day. He still owns almost 9 percent of the $70 billion company today, making him eBay's top shareholder. Forbes pegs his wealth at $8.5 billion.
Omidyar serves as eBay's chairman, but has not been involved in its day-to-day operations for years.
During the summer, Omidyar considered purchasing <a class="cite">the Washington Post</a>, he wrote in his blog. While the Post eventually sold to Bezos in August, the process "got me thinking about what kind of social impact could be created if a similar investment was made in something entirely new, built from the ground up," he wrote.
Those musings led to his latest project, which he is billing as "My Next Adventure in Journalism."
<h3>'PASSIONATE' ABOUT JOURNALISM</h3>
<a class="cite">Omidyar Network</a>, the investment firm founded by Omidyar and his wife, <a class="cite">Pam</a>, in 2004, has backed some 25 organizations dealing with news and government transparency, including News Trust, a news-discovery site run by the nonprofit journalism center the <a class="cite">Poynter Institute</a>; the <a class="cite">Sunlight Foundation</a>, a government-transparency nonprofit; and Transparency &amp; Accountability Initiative, a <a class="cite">London</a> based organization.
"Pierre gets journalism," said John Temple, founding editor of <a class="cite">Honolulu Civil Beat</a>, the news site launched by Omidyar in 2010. "He's passionate about it and knows how to create an environment and culture where journalists feel energized and empowered."
Omidyar's comments on Twitter in recent months show an increasing discomfort with the workings of the <a class="cite">U.S. government</a>.
"There goes freedom of association," he tweeted earlier this week, linking to an article in <a class="cite">the Washington Post </a>about the <a class="cite">National Security Agency</a> collecting email address books.
But in his Wednesday blog post, Omidyar emphasized his new endeavor would go beyond investigative reporting, and would "cover general interest news, with a core mission around supporting and empowering independent journalists across many sectors and beats."
That broad approach makes sense, said <a class="cite">Arianna Huffington</a>, creator of <a class="cite">the Huffington Post</a>, which started an edition in <a class="cite">Hawaii</a> earlier this year through a partnership with Omidyar's <a class="cite">Civil Beat</a>.
"He wants this to be a business, and that's not possible without having a site that's about general news and everything that people are interested in," Huffington said in an interview.
"And for the conclusions of investigative journalism to have impact - and he wants to have impact - you have to capture the public imagination. If you have people coming to the site for other reasons they are more likely to engage."
To some extent, Omidyar seems to be shifting what he has been trying with <a class="cite">Honolulu Civil Beat</a> to a broader stage.
<a class="cite">Civil Beat</a> aimed to create a new online journalism model with paid subscriptions and respectful comment threads. <a class="cite">Patti Epler</a>, current editor of <a class="cite">Civil Beat</a>, said a policy of requiring people to log in via Facebook before they post a comment has encouraged a less strident tone than at many news organizations. She declined to comment on the site's finances.
Her boss has championed projects that might lead to more government transparency, Epler said. When her reporters ran up against a law exempting police from releasing internal disciplinary records, Omidyar created the <a class="cite">Civil Beat</a> Law Center, which is working to secure the release of those records.
Another impetus for starting the center was the demise of <a class="cite">Hawaii</a>'s shield law, which protects journalists from having to reveal anonymous sources, Epler said. It expired earlier this year.
Omidyar frequently drops by the newsroom, where he edits the occasional article, plays foosball, and chats with staff.
"He loves to talk stories," Epler said. "And journalistic principles and ethics."
To read a column for Reuters.com by a reporter who has worked for Omidyar, click on http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/10/17/the-omidyar-way/
(Additional reporting by Jonathan Weber; Editing by Tiffany Wu and Grant McCool)

Ebay's Founder Plans On Building A New 'Mass Media Organization' From Scratch, Starting With Snowden Leaks

<div class="image-container float_right"><div class="image">REUTERS/Ray StubblebineThe Dream Team.</div></div>With 2013 officially over, it's accountability time.
We spoke to <a href="http://tipranks.com/">TipRanks</a>, a service that allows you to track the success of market <keyword id="49628" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="analysts">analysts</keyword> based on comments they make in the media, to find out who on Wall Street made the best calls last year.
TipRanks measures analysts' "success rate" based on how their calls perform relative to the <keyword id="123873" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="SP-500">S&amp;P 500</keyword> and the statistical difficulty of their calls.*
Here's what they found:
1. Corey Davis, Jefferies
Pharmaceuticals [Vanda (VNDA), Acelrx Pharmaceuticals (ACRX), Elan Corporation (ELN), Forest Labs (FRX), Endo Health (ENDP), Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX), Salix (SLXP), Antares Pharmaceuticals (ATRS)]
Success Rate: 92%
Average Return: +16.6%
<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/acelrx-pharma-rises-analyst-starts-164839449.html">Most successful recommendation of 2013</a>: AcelRx (+76.7%) "We see a clear market opportunity for ARX-01 given the current standard of care for post-op pain control is fraught with drawbacks."
2. Daniel Fannon, Jefferies
Asset Management [T. Rowe Price (TROW), Intercontinetal Exchange (ICE), The Blackstone Group (BX), Affiliated Managers (AMG), CME Group (CME), Invesco Ltd. (IVZ), Icahn Enterprises L.P. (IEP)]
Success Rate: 88%
Average Return: +5.3%
<a href="http://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/13/04/3474562/update-jefferies-raises-pt-on-invesco-ltd-on-1q13-previe">Most successful recommendation of 2013</a>: Invesco Ltd. (+15.9%) "Our estimates are moving modestly higher, mostly due to domestic equity market gains, as well as improving fee rates and generally higher flow assumptions. We believe AMG and IVZ are poised for strong flows and positive earnings revisions."
3. Ella Ji, Oppenheimer
Chinese consumer and business service companies [E-House (China) (EJ), Noah Holdings (NOAH), Melco Crown (MPEL), China Distance Education, Holdings Ltd. (DL), New Oriental Education (EDU), Suntech Power (STPFQ)]
Success Rate: 100%
Average Return: +33.8%
<a href="http://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/13/05/3615921/update-oppenheimer-upgrades-china-distance-education-hol">Most successful recommendation of 2013</a>: China Distance Education Holdings (+60.5%) "We are upgrading DL to Outperform from Perform and introducing an $8 target. Momentum in its core accounting test prep services has picked up, and we anticipate a 23%/35% revenue/EPS CAGR for FY12-14."
4. Mark Mahaney, RBC Capitalist
Internet Stocks [Twitter (TWTR), Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), Wix.com Ltd. (WIX), Facebook (FB), Netflix (NFLX), Google (GOOG), Priceline.com (PCLN), Pandora (P), Amazon (AMZN), Ebay (EBAY), AOL Inc. (AOL)]
Success Rate: 72%
Average Return: +12.5%
<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/twitter-a-buy-with-33-price-target-says-rbc-2013-11-06">Most successful recommendation of 2013</a>: Twitter (+126.4%) "Twitter is becoming an essential service for consumers, businesses, media companies, and advertisers."
5. Arvind Bhatia, Sterne Agee
Interactive Entertainment, Digital Entertainment and Consumer [Electronic Arts (EA), Groupon Inc. (GRPN), Facebook Inc. (FB), GameStop (GME)]
Success Rate: 78%
Average Return: +11.4%
<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/groupon-analyst-says-buy-much-more-upside-in-groupon-stock-price-2013-05-15">Most successful recommendation of 2013</a>: Groupon (+41.9%) "Eric and Ted will bring in a new CEO with a strong operating background to move the company forward, so they not only grow the top line but more importantly the bottom line." 
6. William Plovanic, Canaccord Genuity
Medical Technology [Enteromedics Inc. (ETRM), MIMedx Group (MDXG),Stryker (SYK), Dexcom (DXCM), Insulet Corp. (PODD), NuVasive (NUVA)
Globus Medical (GMED), Cyberonics (CYBX)]
Success Rate: 100%
Average Return: +11.9%
<a href="http://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/13/10/3967795/update-canaccord-genuity-initiates-coverage-on-mimedx-gr?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+benzinga+(Benzinga+News+Feed">Most successful recommendation of 2013</a>: MiMedX (+72.7%) "By our estimates, the dermal substitute segment of the advanced wound care market generated ~$345M of revenues in 2012, growing ~23% per year since 2009."
7. Christopher O'Cull, KeyBanc
Food Service [Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Red Robin Gourmet Burger (RRGB), Jack In The Box (JACK), Brinker International (EAT), Ignite Restaurant Group (IRG), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Buffalo Wild Wings (BWLD)]
Success Rate: 100%
Average Return: +11.2%
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2013-03-22/ignite-shares-rise-after-keybanc-upgrade-to-buy">Most successful recommendation of 2013</a>: Ignite Restaurant Group (+23.7%) "The company's profits will eventually get a boost from it acquisition of Romano's Macaroni Grill."
8. Michael Olson, Piper Jaffray
Online Media, Online Travel and Video Games [Chegg Inc. (CHGG), Universal Electronics (UEIC), TiVo Inc. (TIVO), Stratasys (SSYS), GameStop (GME), OpenTable (OPEN), Priceline (PCLN), Electronic Arts (EA), HomeAway (AWAY), Take-Two (TTWO)]
Success Rate: 81%
Average Return: +8.7%
<a href="http://blogs.barrons.com/stockstowatchtoday/2013/02/20/ready-for-playstation-4-here-are-some-bullish-video-game-calls/">Most successful recommendation of 2013</a>: GameStop (+44.0%) "We expect the PS4 will be a meaningful growth driver for GameStop as the retailer's hardware market share has grown from 20% during 2006 [the time of the PS3's launch] to 35% today."
9. Gary Balter, Credit Suisse
Home Improvement [Container Store Group (TCS), Sears Holdings (SHLD), Best Buy Co. (BBY), Bed Bath and Beyond (BBBY), Ulta Salon (ULTA)]
Success Rate: 90%
Average Return: +12.6%
<a href="http://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/13/03/3419859/update-credit-suisse-upgrades-ulta-salon-to-outperform-o">Most successful recommendation of 2013</a>: Ulta Salon (+24.9%) "While not having a permanent CEO and weaker gross margins in Q1 raise concerns, the question we asked is do we believe in the growth potential of the concept. … Given that our answer is yes, and given that yes implies a growth rate of 25% to 30% at a low 20's multiple, we now like that risk reward. 
10. John Baugh, Stifel Nicolaus
Home Furnishings [Mohawk Industries (MHK), Conn's (CONN), Tempur Sealy (TPX), Owens Corning (OC), Select Comfort Corporation (SCSS), Furniture Brands (FBN), La-Z-Boy Inc. (LZB), Mattress Firm (MFRM)]
Success Rate: 90%
Average Return: +12.1%
<a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2013/08/07/furniture-brands-shares-fall-on-stifel.html">Most successful recommendation of 2013</a>: Furniture Brands (+56.6%) "We believe some form of liquidation of the company or bankruptcy filing is imminent."
11. Timothy Ramey, D.A. Davidson
Food, Beverage and Nutrition Industries [Herbalife (HLF), NuSkin (NUS), Tyson Foods (TSN), Flowers Foods (FLO), Smithfield Food (SFD), Balchem Corp (BCPC), Constellation Brands Inc. (STZ)]
Success Rate: 77%
Average Return: +5.8%
<a href="http://www.streetinsider.com/Analyst+Comments/UPDATE%3A+DA+Davidson+Upgrades+Nu+Skin+Enterprises+(NUS)+to+Buy/8764029.html">Most successful recommendation of 2013</a>: NuSkin (+38.0%) " I am valuation sensitive on NUS as it has reestablished a somewhat premium evaluation."
12. Victor Anthony, Topeka Capital
Media and Internet Sectors [Twitter (TWTR), Google (GOOG), Ebay Inc. (EBAY), Amazon (AMZN), Facebook (FB), AOL Inc. (AOL), Shutterfly (SFLY)]
Success Rate: 67%
Average Return: 9%
<a href="http://www.streetinsider.com/Analyst+Comments/Twitter+%28TWTR%29+2014+Year-End+Target+%2454%3B+Topeka+Capital+Starts+at+Buy/8826827.html">Most successful recommendation of 2013</a>: Twitter (+125.9%) "We believe that Twitter's user and advertising monetization platform is in the early innings. We see a well-defined ecosystem with strong network effects developing around Twitter that should lead to out-sized shareholder returns for years to come. As such, we recommend investors buy the shares of Twitter to capture upside from Twitter's value creation engine."
------------------------------------------------ *Here's the methodology from TipRanks:
TipRanks looks at a variety of benchmarks, including the traditional % average over the S&amp;P 500 and performance success rate. But, we go far beyond this information in our ranking over the analysts.
When it comes to evaluating adviser performance, we not only measure how much an analyst outperforms a specific benchmark, but also how consistent they are in doing so.
As such, TipRanks uses the statistical Z-test to determine the statistical viability / consistency of financial advisers stock recommendations against a benchmark.
Z-test enables answering tough questions when it comes to comparing financial advisor performance, for example:
· Which adviser has a better success rate, one that gave 10 recommendations out of which 7 outperformed the benchmark (70%) or one that gave 100 recommendations out of which 68 outperformed the benchmark (68%)? While 70% is greater than 68%, achieving a 68% success rate over 100 recommendations is "statistically harder" than achieving 70% over 10.
· Which adviser has a higher excess return over the benchmark, one that gave 10 recommendations and outperformed the benchmark by 3.2% or one that gave 100 recommendations and outperformed the benchmark by 'only' 3%? To measure the adviser performance against the benchmark, TipRanks calculates the Z-score the recommendation set given by each adviser and can thus compare an adviser with 10 recommendations to an adviser that gave 100 recommendations.

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