Machine Learning, Crowdsourcing Speed Up Online Surveys

| Rastislav Ivanic

Online surveys provide valuable insights into everything from product design and packaging to consumer buying habits. But today’s research platforms often impose a tradeoff between speed and simplicity and the richness of actionable insights. A combination of machine learning and crowdsourcing concepts is solving this problem.

Prime Day Hits $10B in Sales; Party Continues with New Holiday Dash

| Mike O'Brien

Another Prime Day is in the books, with Amazon reporting that third-party sellers rang up $3.5 billion in sales over the two days, up 60% from $2.2 billion in 2019, and once again Amazon devices were big winners. eMarketer pegged the worldwide total for Prime Day at a shade under $10 billion, up a hefty 43% from $6.93 billion in 2019.