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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

A Digital Nation (Infographic)

[Source: U.S. Census Bureau]

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Wharton Customer Analytics and Teradata Event (Video)

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Digital Marketing Landscape 2016, 87% Growth

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

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

  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

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

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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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

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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

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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

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