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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
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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
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 complex … 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
Worldwide Shipments of Wearables to Surpass 200 Million in 2019
https://accounts.icharts.net/icharts/embed/MH7TwipN iCharts IDC The worldwide wearable device market will reach a total of 111.1 million units shipped in 2016, up a strong 44.4% from the 80 million units expected to ship shipped in 2015. By 2019, the final year … Continue reading
Price is #1 Barrier to the Purchase of IoT Devices
Accenture: Consumers report that price is the top barrier to the purchase of IoT devices, with 62 percent believing these devices are too expensive. This perception is almost consistent across age groups and countries—with mature markets only slightly less concerned … Continue reading
Data visualization: Plotting life expectancy against income for 200 countries over 200 years
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo?rel=0] Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has … Continue reading