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The World Is An Internet Startup Now

John Battelle's Searchblog

But as I scanned the room last night and watched those friends of mine, I realized that each of them was now involved in an Internet startup in some way or another. This is what we meant when we chose " Web Meets World " for the theme of the 2008 Web 2 Summit, but it's really happening now, at least in my world. And that was that.

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Utilities Digital Journey Insights (Part 3): Data, the new “digital capital” - Going beyond the hype of advanced analytics and AI

CGI

while the share of spending on traditional direct response media like newspapers has shrunk from 38% in 2008 to 14% in 2016. For utilities, these are green field areas, and clients frequently ask me how CGI provides data support to more advanced industries like retail banking and telecoms. Why is this so? Quite simply, data.