Author Archives: GilPress

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

The Evolution of Digital Capacity by Country

Posted on February 9, 2016 by GilPress

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 →

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IoT: Market Landscape, Companies, Funding, VCs, Maturity Level

Posted on February 5, 2016 by GilPress
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5.5 billion mobile users in 2020

Posted on February 4, 2016 by GilPress
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What has @Facebook Wrought: No More Six Degrees of Separation

Posted on February 4, 2016 by GilPress

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

Posted on February 3, 2016 by GilPress

  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 →

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Industrial IoT Market to Reach $151.01 Billion by 2020

Posted on February 3, 2016 by GilPress

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 →

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The Myths of Disruptive Innovation and Accelerating Speed

Posted on February 1, 2016 by GilPress

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 →

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The History of Artificial Intelligence (Video)

Posted on January 31, 2016 by GilPress

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Internet Publishing Industry Grew 13% to $110 Billion in 2014

Posted on January 28, 2016 by GilPress

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 →

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Present and Future IoT: Numbers from IDC (Infographic)

Posted on January 26, 2016 by GilPress
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