Author Archives: GilPress
Big Auto Self-Disruption
CB Insights: Traditional automotive OEMs have begun making deals at a frantic place, seeking to remedy their shortcomings in auto tech and ride-hailing disciplines. Using CB Insights data, we mapped out the key auto tech partnerships, investments, and acquisitions of these … Continue reading
Google 1 Yahoo 0
Many of the obituaries for Yahoo have contrasted its demise with the flourishing of Google, another Web pioneer. Why was Google’s attempt to “organize all the world’s information” vastly more successful than Yahoo’s? The short answer: Because Google did not organize the … Continue reading
Inherited Wealth in Europe and the U.S.
Bloomberg: More than one-third of Italy’s richest people inherited their fortunes, compared with just 29 percent in the U.S. and 2 percent in China, according to a 2014 study of the world’s billionaires by the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Germany has the … Continue reading
30% of internet data usage at home comes from phones and tablets, up from 9% in 2012
Recode: Sandvine, a broadband services company, says that 30 percent of internet data usage at home comes from phones and tablets. That’s up from 20 percent in 2013 and 9 percent in 2012.
China: Increasing Investments in AI, Big Data and Digital Health
Gartner: Despite the slowdown in GDP growth to 6.9 percent in 2015, China is still making aggressive investments to drive the adoption of high technology by local enterprises and organizations, according to Gartner, Inc… The massive consumer base and the … Continue reading
Robotics: From Tesla in 1898 to Exits in 2011-2016
PBS: [Nikola] Tesla wanted an extraordinary way to demonstrate the potential of his system for wireless transmission of energy [radio]. In 1898, at an electrical exhibition in the recently completed Madison Square Garden, he made a demonstration of the … Continue reading
Textbooks and College Tuition Lead Price Increases 1996-2016
Source: BLS HT: CB Insights
AI: The Story So Far, Stuart Russell (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBCOMm_ytwM] Machine Learning Research Institute: As previously announced, we recently ran a 22-day Colloquium Series on Robust and Beneficial AI (CSRBAI) at the MIRI office, co-hosted with the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute. The colloquium was aimed at bringing … Continue reading
Benchmarking Digital Transformation
Deloitte: If your organization is moving toward digital too slowly, your people may be looking to leave. That’s one of the findings highlighted here and explored more fully in Aligning the organization for its digital future.