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Long Live King Email

This morning, I went to Google and started to type. email is By this point, Google was already trying to finish my thought for me. email issues email is not working on iphone email is dead Hmm. Google thinks I want to search ‘email is dead.’ I’m intrigued. I hit enter. THERE ARE 2,540,000,000 RESULTS [...]

Data Means Business

Every day as you leave work and hungrily head for home, a major battle is fought in the war for big data and it happens right under your nose. Or rather, right at your fingertips. All day long you’ve been using your work computer, searching Google for leads and .gifs, and you’ve been making data. [...]

5 Things You’d Never Think of Doing with Big Data

Over fifty years ago statistician and Japanese business guru, W.E. Deming, declared “In God we trust; all others must bring data.” And bring data they have. In 2013, already dubbed “the year of big data,” 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day.  So we’ve made oodles of data, from tweets to Amazon purchases, [...]

Email: The King of Smartphone Activity

The following comes courtesy from our friends at LiveIntent: The Pew Research Center in collaboration with The Economist Group just released new mobile device usage stats showing email as the reigning champ of activity on both tablets and smartphones. Despite the growth in ownership, diversity of devices available, and ever expanding roster of apps, email still beats news, games, [...]