The economy is quickly climbing towards our next financial boom and hiring is starting to explode, especially in the tech industry. As growth takes speed, companies will need to look at how to best manage and maintain their hiring, recruiting, and employee management processes. Here are 6 enterprise applications to help your company expand to the next level.

1. Hireview

HireVue is the world's leading online video interviewing and decision management solution that allows employers to conduct and capture video interviews over the Internet to better recognize and hire top talent. Used in over 110 countries, HireVue combines superior service with superior solutions to improve the hiring process anywhere in the world.

2012 is definitely the year that video goes mainstream in the enterprise. With sufficient Internet bandwidth now readily available and the stability of the cloud accessible by everyone, video and audio content can now be produced, edited, and distributed from anywhere you're connected, which is pretty much everywhere! Here's a list of 4 video collaboration apps you may want to think about including in your strategy this year.

1. WeVideo

WeVideo enables social video creation by providing a collaborative online environment for video content aggregation and/or joint editing of your video story. The environment is safe from intrusion via highly encrypted password access, and you control who is part of your video editing community. Finished videos can be shared on the WeVideo platform or published in internet or HD broadcast quality to your favorite video-sharing, social networking or other online site.

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The WeVideo platform tackles the challenge of video rendering, bringing new speed to the video creation process.

Our friends over at Recurly have raised $6 million in a Series A financing round led by BV Capital, and including Polaris Venture Partners, Harrison Metal Capital and FreeStyle Capital. Recurly is powering billing for over 750 small/medium enterprises, including JibJab, Fox News Radio, Justin.tv, SlideShare, GOOD.is, and Weather Underground. So far the company has raised about $8 Million total. Recurly makes it super easy for businesses of all sizes to offer and manage subscriptions and recurring revenue. Their simple approach allows customer to get setp and running about 5 minutes.

Recurly's system handles tasks like credit card number storage, failed transaction management, renewal management, and customer management. Subscription-based businesses lose a ton of money each month due to credit card transaction failures, Recurly makes it easy to spot these and update information for on time billing and revenue recognition. Like most billing solutions, Recurly supports integration with a number of financial software solutions, including QuickBooks.

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In 2011 online video progressed further towards mainstream viewership. Here's a brief overview of some stats provided by comSore. Of course Google leads the charge as far as video sites go, behind YouTube was VEVO, which captured about a third of the YouTube audience. The report does not say whether YouTube videos viewed where viewed on their main site or from embedded sources across the web -- that may be good to know.

Let's take a look at December 2011, where 182 million U.S. users watched online video content  for an average of 23.2 hours per viewer. The total U.S. Internet audience viewed 43.5 billion videos.

Where's Facebook in all this? With YouTube in first, VEVO in second, you'd think it would be in third place.... wrong. Facebook dropped from third place in November 2011 to fifth place, trailing behind Yahoo and Viacom. Yikes!

As most of you know, there are rumors surrounding a potential Facebook IPO. While they are probably not going to take that path, we've explored the facts and figures of a potential Facebook IPO. This infogrphic is brought to you by http://accountingdegreeonline.net

DreamSimplicity, a virtual community and marketplace directory for business applications and the industry professionals, will provide video content generation and syndication services for Startup Monthly workshops. Startup Monthly workshops provide small technology teams a rich environment to meet potential co-founders, form the necessary bonds, and try working together for periods of 1 week to 6 months.

The DreamSimplicity Video Team will follow each team as they progress from initial concept and prototype, all the way through to presenting to potential investors and advisors in the venture capital community.

The completed videos will be available on StartUp Monthly's website and broadcasted on DS TV, here at DreamSimplicity. 

Contactually, a 500 Startups-backed company has launched an easy-to-use CRM solution for email users. The application works with any IMAP-connected account, including Gmail, Google Apps, Yahoo, AOL and others. Plans to support both POP3 and Microsoft Exchange in the near future have been discussed.

In addition to launching their service, the company also just closed an angel round totaling $165,000 -- their seed round was $50K as consistent with all 500 Startups-backed companies.

Today's infographic examines big corporations from a psychological perspective and answers the question: if corporations were people, what sort of people would they be?