Author Archives: GilPress
Facebook is in a category all by itself (#dataviz)
Venturebeat.com: Findings in a new report released by Verto Analytics: 222 million U.S. Facebook users tend to spend 14 hours per month in the company’s app. (That’s 335,000 years worth of time, by the way.) Google reaches 228 million U.S. users, … Continue reading
Stopping Data Breaches is Everybody’s Job
The 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report, released in April by Verizon, estimated that there were 2,122 confirmed data breaches in 2014, generating $400 million in losses. This week we learned that one attack that was not included in this count … Continue reading
Collaborative Robotics Market to Grow 10x to $1 Billion by 2020
ABI Research: Advancements in robotic and control technology now make it possible for industrial robots to expand beyond their traditional manufacturing and automation roles, to support whole new classes of applications, and by extension, new markets. Perhaps the best example … Continue reading
Steve Jobs on how people hate streaming music (video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avt7GEpHYtI?rel=0] Steve Jobs in 2003: “People have told us over and over and over again–they don’t want to rent their music.”
Algorithms Are the Art World’s Newest Collecting Trend
The Wall Street Journal: In March, Daniel Benitez, a cinema executive in Miami, paid $2,500 for a necktie. It wasn’t just any strip of designer neckwear. Imprinted on the blue silk were six lines of computer code that once brought … Continue reading
Internet of Things Startup Landscape (Infographic)
Source: CB Insights
Tom Davenport on Managing Data Scientists (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK4-ASEUmgE?rel=0]
How to Establish Startup Incubators and Ensure Successful Exits by Jerusalem Venture Partners
In the first quarter of 2015, 166 Israeli high-tech companies raised $994 million, a 48 percent increase year-over-year, according to research firm IVC. “We are on a positive slope right now,” Gadi Tirosh told me recently, “which is fine, as … Continue reading
Chief Digital Officers (CDOs): How Many and How Much they Make?
eMarketer: The chief digital officer (CDO) role emerged alongside the digital transformation, and companies are rapidly making room for the position. In a report released in May 2015, The CDO Club estimated that the number of CDOs worldwide would double … Continue reading
The Internet of Things (Infographic)
Source: Data Science Central