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

81% of US companies will have deployed IoT by 2018

Posted on December 16, 2016 by GilPress

Source: I-Scoop Machina Research: In summer 2016 Machina Research commissioned a study of 420 business decision makers familiar with their company’s use and planned use of the Internet of Things (IoT) to optimize their business operations or to build intelligent, Internet … Continue reading →

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The market for smart lighting and connected lighting controls to reach more than $12 billion by 2020

Posted on December 14, 2016 by GilPress

IHS Markit: The world market for smart lighting and connected lighting controls was valued at $6 billion in 2015, and is forecast to more than double in size by 2020, according to a new report from IHS Markit. The smart … Continue reading →

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Statistics and Machine Learning

Posted on December 13, 2016 by GilPress

The image above is taken from a data mining primer course SAS offered in 1998. Aatash Shah, CEO of Edvancer Eduventures, in KDnuggets: Machine learning requires no prior assumptions about the underlying relationships between the variables. You just have to throw … Continue reading →

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Streaming Music: Age Demographics

Posted on December 12, 2016 by GilPress

Pew: Listening to music and shopping on the go are especially popular among smartphone owners ages 18 to 29: 87% have listened to an online radio or music service on their phone, compared with 41% of those 50 and over, and … Continue reading →

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IDC: Top 2017 Predictions

Posted on December 10, 2016 by GilPress

IDC released its 10 IT industry predictions for 2017 in a webcast with Frank Gens, IDC’s senior vice president and chief analyst. The predictions covered many trends driving success today and in the future, from how the entire global economy … Continue reading →

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McKinsey Updates Estimates of Big Data Potential Value

Posted on December 9, 2016 by GilPress

Source: McKinsey, 2011 [In 2011], we estimated the potential for big data and analytics to create value in five specific domains. Revisiting them today shows uneven progress and a great deal of that value still on the table (exhibit). The … Continue reading →

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Acquisitions and Investments by Media Companies Since 2010

Posted on December 8, 2016 by GilPress

  Source: Columbia Journalism Review

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The Deep Learning Market: $1.7 Billion in 2022

Posted on November 30, 2016 by GilPress

MarketsAndMarkets: The deep learning market is expected to be worth $1,722.9 Million by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 65.3% between 2016 and 2022. The deep learning market has a huge potential across various industries such as advertisement, finance, and … Continue reading →

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Augmented Intelligence (#AI)

Posted on November 30, 2016 by GilPress

Augmented Intelligence (#AI) https://t.co/ZAUL14fT0f — Gil Press (@GilPress) November 29, 2016 Augmented Intelligence (#AI) https://t.co/t6THNZvtBY — Gil Press (@GilPress) November 29, 2016  

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Look Ma, No Drivers: Transportation Automation

Posted on November 29, 2016 by GilPress
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