100% of U.S. marketers surveyed say data and analytics will play a crucial role within their team as well as within other marketing teams in the future
66% of marketing teams interviewed have a Chief Marketing Technologist (CMT) in place today, and 26% are looking to fill a CMT role in the next 12 months.
46% of U.S. marketers plan to increase investments in both customer insight analytics and programmatic marketing in 2017.
23% of global marketers say “being stretched too thin due to working with and managing too many vendors” is their biggest threat.

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The Universe may be expanding on cosmic scales between the distant galaxies, but atoms always stay the same size. What determines the scale of the expansion?

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No Man’s Sky just hit PC/Steam after a successful launch on PS4, and players are reporting some severe technical issues ranging from crashes, low framerates, and just general performance issues.

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In a world of Wikileaks, Snowden disclosures, OPM breaches and inadvertent live tweeting of officials’ itineraries, is the $11 billion a year spent on secrecy worth it?

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The battle for your TV ratcheted up recently, when the U.S. Copyright Office said it did not want the federal government to open cable TV boxes to third parties.

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