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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

Joi Ito on Open Hardware and Why Bio is the New Digital

Posted on June 25, 2015 by GilPress

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Big Data Jobs: Salaries and Top Industries

Posted on June 25, 2015 by GilPress

Source: Where Big Data Jobs Are In 2015 – Midyear Update

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Facebook is in a category all by itself (#dataviz)

Posted on June 24, 2015 by GilPress

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 →

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Stopping Data Breaches is Everybody’s Job

Posted on June 17, 2015 by GilPress

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 →

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Collaborative Robotics Market to Grow 10x to $1 Billion by 2020

Posted on June 10, 2015 by GilPress

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 →

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Steve Jobs on how people hate streaming music (video)

Posted on June 10, 2015 by GilPress

[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.”

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Algorithms Are the Art World’s Newest Collecting Trend

Posted on June 7, 2015 by GilPress

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 →

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Internet of Things Startup Landscape (Infographic)

Posted on June 6, 2015 by GilPress

Source: CB Insights

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Tom Davenport on Managing Data Scientists (Video)

Posted on June 5, 2015 by GilPress

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How to Establish Startup Incubators and Ensure Successful Exits by Jerusalem Venture Partners

Posted on June 1, 2015 by GilPress

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 →

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