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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

65+ US population to grow from 48 to 88 million by 2050

Posted on March 28, 2016 by GilPress

America’s 65-and-over population is projected to nearly double over the next three decades, ballooning from 48 million to 88 million by 2050. However, the U.S. Census Bureau projects the U.S. population will age at a slower rate compared with other … Continue reading →

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Smart City Technologies (Infographic)

Posted on March 28, 2016 by GilPress

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56 Smart City Startups

Posted on March 28, 2016 by GilPress

CB Insights: These are some of the segments that these startups are attacking: Parking – Startups are improving the efficiency with which we park our cars, doing everything from booking (ParkWhiz), parking analytics (Parkifi), and smart metering (MeterFeeder). Grid/Energy – These … Continue reading →

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A Digital Nation (Infographic)

Posted on March 23, 2016 by GilPress

[Source: U.S. Census Bureau]

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Wharton Customer Analytics and Teradata Event (Video)

Posted on March 21, 2016 by GilPress

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Digital Marketing Landscape 2016, 87% Growth

Posted on March 21, 2016 by GilPress

2016 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic (PDF) 2016 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic (1,200dpi JPEG) Scott Brinker: As mind-boggling as it is, the marketing technology landscape grew even bigger. I’ve fit 3,874 marketing technology solutions on to a single 16×9 slide — … Continue reading →

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Digital is 22% of the world’s economy

Posted on March 15, 2016 by GilPress

Ten in Fifteen: Digital was 22 percent of the world’s economy in 2015. It will rise to 25 percent by 2020, a 10 percent increase since 2005. According to our global technology survey of more than 3,100 IT and business executives, 86 … Continue reading →

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The Brute Force of AlphaGo

Posted on March 14, 2016 by GilPress

  David Silver, Google DeepMind: The search base at Go is too enormous and too vast for a brute force approach to have any chance of succeeding… The search process itself is not based on brute force, more on something akin … Continue reading →

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26 Largest FinTech Deals of 2015

Posted on March 10, 2016 by GilPress

Bloomberg.com: A new report from KPMG International and CB Insights shows that private funding flowed relatively freely into the fintech industry in 2015, feeding into an overall trend that has seen startups opt to stay private for longer.  Investment in venture capital-backed fintech companies … Continue reading →

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12 Apps with 1 Billion Users

Posted on March 8, 2016 by GilPress

Jeff Desjardins: So far, the only companies in possession of apps or programs with more than one billion active users are Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. Amazingly, Google alone has seven of them: Search, Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Android, Chrome, and Play. … Continue reading →

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