Author Archives: GilPress

About GilPress

I'm Managing Partner at gPress, a marketing, publishing, research and education consultancy. Also a Senior Contributor forbes.com/sites/gilpress/. Previously, I held senior marketing and research management positions at NORC, DEC and EMC. Most recently, I was Senior Director, Thought Leadership Marketing at EMC, where I launched the Big Data conversation with the “How Much Information?” study (2000 with UC Berkeley) and the Digital Universe study (2007 with IDC). Twitter: @GilPress

Mobile Tipping Point: 50.5% of American Homes have Only Wireless Phones

Posted on May 12, 2017 by GilPress

CDC: The second 6 months of 2016 was the first time that a majority of American homes had only wireless telephones. Preliminary results from the July–December 2016 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) indicate that 50.8% of American homes did not … Continue reading →

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Robots Enjoy Strongest First Quarter on Record in U.S. and Canada

Posted on May 11, 2017 by GilPress

Robotic Industries Association: North American robotics companies posted the strongest ever first-quarter results, according to the Robotic Industries Association (RIA), the industry’s trade group. Both robot orders and shipments achieved record levels. An all-time high total of 9,773 robots valued … Continue reading →

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Data is Eating the World: A New Economy

Posted on May 11, 2017 by GilPress

  The Economist: Data are to this century what oil was to the last one: a driver of growth and change. Flows of data have created new infrastructure, new businesses, new monopolies, new politics and—crucially—new economics. Digital information is unlike … Continue reading →

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Marketing Technology Landscape, 2017

Posted on May 10, 2017 by GilPress

Scott Brinker: There are now 5,381 solutions on the graphic, 39% more than last year There are now 4,891 unique companies on the graphic, up 40% from last year Only 4.7% of the solutions from 2016 were removed (and another … Continue reading →

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Digital Tipping Points: Bits Replacing Atoms

Posted on May 9, 2017 by GilPress

 

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Timeline of AI and Robotics

Posted on May 8, 2017 by GilPress

Source: PwC

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Data is Eating the World: The new face of globalization

Posted on May 5, 2017 by GilPress

McKinsey: The growth of trade compared with the growth of GDP in this decade has been half of that in the late 1990s and early 2000s, while global capital flows as a percentage of GDP have dropped precipitously since the … Continue reading →

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Internet Tipping Point: Laptops and desktops overtake TVs as preferred devices for watching TV shows

Posted on May 4, 2017 by GilPress

Accenture: Signaling an accelerating shift in the digital video market consumer behavior, the percentage of consumers who prefer watching TV shows on television sets plummeted by 55 percent over the past year, from 52 percent to 23 percent, according to … Continue reading →

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Top 100 Websites in the U.S.

Posted on May 3, 2017 by GilPress

Source: Vodien

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Types of Machine Learning Algorithms and When to Use Them

Posted on May 2, 2017 by GilPress

Source: Hui Li

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