Along with powerful tools for collaboration, security and delivering performance in cloud-based software services will continue to separate the leaders in SaaS from the rest of the pack.
While the leader of the mobile-monitoring pack has been Nextel with their Mobile Locator, recently the mobile tracking firm Xora has released services like "geofences" which sets off an alarm when the employee goes to a previously no-no designated area (we bet 80% of these are bars).
According to a recently laid-off Austin employee, who declined to be named, Zynga notified some workers that their services were no longer needed on Tuesday afternoon and that they would have under two hours to pack up and vacate the offices.