4 Stocks Expected To Benefit From Marc Andreessen's Internet Prediction: 'Software Is Eating The World'

Marc Andreessen, the legendary cofounder of Netscape turned tech investor, says workplace apps that run on the Internet are making small businesses just as powerful as big ones.

IBM and EMC are reportedly both courting cloud-computing company SoftLayer Technologies in an acquisition expected to exceed $2 billion.

Ben Horowitz, a founding partner of Silicon Valley powerhouse venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, made an interesting point at the DLD conference yesterday. Horowitz was running through the factors that make a great investment. One of those factors is "the team"--or, more specifically, the entrepreneur.

By Simit Patel:Today saw the IPO of Zynga (ZNGA), the world's leading social gaming company.

As we've previously reported, MuleSoft has quietly become one of the hottest startups in the enterprise arena, with VCs and other enterprise companies throwing investment money at it.

A decade after the dotcom bubble burst, big enterprise companies like SAP and Oracle were shocked that software-as-a-service and cloud computing could threaten them, says legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.

Andreessen Horowitz has stormed the staid world of venture capital since Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen and his longtime partner Ben Horowitz founded the firm just two years ago. It has quickly become one of the premier VC firms, with $950 million under management, largely focused on consumer- and enterprise-oriented Internet startups as well as larger ...

Top early stage VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) is sooo over vanity metrics. It's not impressed by a startup's monthly pageview or unique visitor count anymore. It doesn't relish in the number of downloads an app has either.