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Digital Tipping Point: Online Advertising will Surpass TV Advertising in 2017
eMarketer: Next year will mark a major milestone for ad spending, as total digital surpasses TV for the first time, according to eMarketer’s newest quarterly ad spending forecast. In 2017, TV ad spending will total $72.01 billion, or 35.8% of … Continue reading
Market for Industrial Robots to Reach $80 Billion in 2022
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY] A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings. It is specialized for mobile manipulation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and … Continue reading
Global Digital Data Flows: 12% of Global Trade Digitized
McKinsey Global Institute: Digital flows—which were practically nonexistent just 15 years ago—now exert a larger impact on GDP growth than the centuries-old trade in goods, according to a new McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report, Digital globalization: The new era of … Continue reading
32 Artificial Intelligence Startups In Healthcare
CB Insights: We identified 32 companies that are already applying machine learning techniques and predictive analytics to reduce drug discovery times, provide virtual assistance to patients, and diagnose ailments by processing medical images, among other things. The 32 startups on … Continue reading
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Mobile Futures: Every aspect of the modern economy will be challenged
The Future of Mobility, Deloitte University Press: Deloitte’s Center for the Edge argues that a new mobility ecosystem could spark a “virtual” value chain in which the ability to capture, aggregate, and analyze mobility-related data becomes a tremendous source of … Continue reading
3 AI programs to talk at TED 2020: $5 million competition announcement
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Smart Home Market $56.18 Billion by 2020
MarketsandMarkets: The smart home market is estimated to grow from $25.38 Billion in 2015 to $56.18 Billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 17.2% between 2015 and 2020, while the assisted living market is estimated to grow from $1.20 Billion … Continue reading
63 Fintech Startups Targeting Millennials
CB Insights: Fintech startups prominent in the millennial demographic range include “robo-advisors” offering low-cost alternatives to brokerages, to lending firms innovating in credit risk, and stock-picking and automated savings apps. Many of the fintech startups are leveraging existing technologies already … Continue reading
Beyond Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google: Intelligent Assistants Landscape
VB: Ever since Apple’s Siri heralded the age of intelligent assistants (IAs) four years ago — followed by Microsoft, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — pundits have complained that intelligent assistant technology isn’t living up to its promise… In 2015, the … Continue reading