Data visualisation is transforming communications, enabling private, public and third sector organisations to make the most of data sets to tell complex stories at a glance.
Dorsey diplomatically answered that both companies did because of Twitter's role in transforming communications and Square's place in the exchange of value.
Silicon Valley is unmatched in the talent and capital required to radically transform the communications infrastructure which the Middle East so badly needs.
It is also unlikely that a company like Google or Apple would toss its hat into the ring, say analysts, despite indications that both companies are looking to transform the communications business.
It's the immediate forerunner for a series of big game-changers Jobs will roll out in rapid succession over the next decade -- iPod, iTunes, iPhone, iPad -- which transform mobile communications and computing and the consumer end of the music and movie businesses.
Barely seven years after it was born in a Harvard dorm room, Facebook, as much as any other company, is redefining the notion of privacy and transforming communications, media and advertising in the Internet age.
The tremendous expansion of industry after 1700 was stimulated by the building of canals, which transformed the communications of the area, as well as by the rich mineral resources.
But G.E.'s effort, analysts say, shows that Internet-era technology is ready to sweep through the industrial economy much as the consumer Internet has transformed media, communications and advertising over the last decade.
