Category Archives: Misc
Sharp Increase in Data Loss Due to Insider Threats
A new Ponemon Institute survey has found that 76% of IT practitioners in the U.S. and Europe say their organizations have suffered the loss or theft of important data over the past two years. This is a significant increase from … Continue reading
Internet of Things by the Numbers: Research Updates
IDC presented on August 4 its annual mid-year IoT review webcast, hosted by Vernon Turner, senior vice president and research fellow for IoT and Carrie MacGillivray, vice president of IoT & Mobile. Here are the highlights: An updated Digital Universe … Continue reading
Network Map of Top 100 Cyber Security Influencers
Onalytica: We were very interested in seeing which Data Security influencers and brands were leading the online discussion, so we analysed tweets over the last 6 months mentioning the keywords: “data privacy” OR dataprivacy OR “data security” OR datasecurity OR datasec OR “data protection” … Continue reading
Big Auto Self-Disruption
CB Insights: Traditional automotive OEMs have begun making deals at a frantic place, seeking to remedy their shortcomings in auto tech and ride-hailing disciplines. Using CB Insights data, we mapped out the key auto tech partnerships, investments, and acquisitions of these … Continue reading
Google 1 Yahoo 0
Many of the obituaries for Yahoo have contrasted its demise with the flourishing of Google, another Web pioneer. Why was Google’s attempt to “organize all the world’s information” vastly more successful than Yahoo’s? The short answer: Because Google did not organize the … Continue reading
Inherited Wealth in Europe and the U.S.
Bloomberg: More than one-third of Italy’s richest people inherited their fortunes, compared with just 29 percent in the U.S. and 2 percent in China, according to a 2014 study of the world’s billionaires by the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Germany has the … Continue reading
30% of internet data usage at home comes from phones and tablets, up from 9% in 2012
Recode: Sandvine, a broadband services company, says that 30 percent of internet data usage at home comes from phones and tablets. That’s up from 20 percent in 2013 and 9 percent in 2012.
Textbooks and College Tuition Lead Price Increases 1996-2016
Source: BLS HT: CB Insights