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This Christmas, we saw one surefire way to get Americans to put down their phones: give them a stack of presents. While there was certainly a lot to covet this year — from gold iPhones to personal drones — we’re . . .

The late nights were the biggest eCommerce activity surprise this long holiday weekend. However, biggest spikes in week-over-week activity levels took place when you’d expect less shopping and more sleeping. On Thursday, Nov. 28 activity spiked 190% over the previous . . .

This holiday weekend is the official kick off to the holiday shopping season and according to Forrester Research online sales are expected to grow 15% year over year (visit the good folks at AllThingsD for more on the Forrester Report). . . .

The technology we grow up with has a powerful and lasting impact on the devices, software and products we choose to use. We adults–those born before the 90’s–did not have connected devices available at all times as kids. Growing up . . .

Before you dive into the live blogs of Apple’s event this morning to see if the rumored new versions of the iPhone are true, it’s worth understanding the state of the Apple & iOS world today. This Data Snapshot looks . . .

_Re-posting of a byline that originally ran on Sufficiently Advanced, the personal blog of robotmia’s co-founder and CEO Suhail Doshi. _ I think we’re starting to miss the point of bullshit metrics. Liz Gannes, from AllThingsD, recently called bullshit on . . .

We believe in being data driven, the importance of new metrics for the new world and the power of the OKM. But we also enjoy spending time with data to see what new insights we can uncover. This week we . . .

Re-posting of a byline that originally ran on Sufficiently Advanced, the personal blog of robotmia’s co-founder and CEO Suhail Doshi. Bullshit metrics Every day feels the same. A fledgling startup tries to appear like the up-and- coming market leader while . . .

This post was originally written by Jeremy Richardson on Mashable For a while, a big limitation of online optimization tools was their lack of real-time reporting. Google Analytics, the most popular analytics service out there, can easily take a full . . .