Author Archives: GilPress
The Evolution of Digital Capacity by Country
The Fletcher School, Tufts: The Digital Evolution Index (DEI) analyzes the key underlying drivers and barriers that govern a country’s evolution into a digital economy: Demand, Supply, Institutional Environment, and Innovation. A longitudinal analysis of these four drivers during the … Continue reading
IoT: Market Landscape, Companies, Funding, VCs, Maturity Level
What has @Facebook Wrought: No More Six Degrees of Separation
Facebook: How connected is the world? Playwrights [1], poets [2], and scientists [3] have proposed that everyone on the planet is connected to everyone else by six other people. In honor of Friends Day, we’ve crunched the Facebook friend graph … Continue reading
102 Startups Digitally Disrupting Banking
CB Insights: Digital banking startups have secured more than $10.3B in funding since 2010, as they disrupt the banking value chain, providing consumers with new alternatives for services traditionally dominated by consumer banks, including lending, bill pay, personal finance, and investment … Continue reading
Industrial IoT Market to Reach $151.01 Billion by 2020
MarketsandMarkets: The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market was valued at $93.99 Billion in 2014, to reach $151.01 Billion by 2020 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.03% between 2015 and 2020. IIoT is the integration of … Continue reading
The Myths of Disruptive Innovation and Accelerating Speed
The Economist: More creative destruction would seem to imply that firms are being created and destroyed at a greater rate. But the odds of a company dropping out of the S&P 500 index of big firms in any given year … Continue reading
The History of Artificial Intelligence (Video)
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Internet Publishing Industry Grew 13% to $110 Billion in 2014
Revenue for Internet publishing and broadcasting and Web search portal (NAICS 519130) employer firms increased 13.1 percent to $109.6 billion between 2013 and 2014. These information sector firms are primarily engaged in publishing and/or broadcasting content on the Internet exclusively … Continue reading