Online spending between Nov. 1 and Dec. 6 rose 18.6% year over year to a record $80.3 billion — the biggest e-commerce shopping period of all time in the United States — beating last year’s record $67.7 billion by nearly $13 billion, according to Adobe’s latest holiday shopping update, based on its survey of more than 1,000 U.S. consumers.

“We look at that as a very positive step, and we think it helps the consumer,” CEO David Abney says.

Police in Jersey City, across the Hudson River from New York, are teaming up with Amazon to install doorbell cameras and plant dummy boxes with GPS tracking devices at homes around the city. They didn’t have to wait long Tuesday for someone to take the bait. “We had a box out on the street for three minutes before it was taken,” said police Capt. James Crecco, who is overseeing the mission. “We thought it was a mistake at first.”

Glossier Inc., the fast-growing millennial makeup company, will surpass $100 million in revenue this year, according to Chief Executive Officer Emily Weiss, and this rapid expansion has the company setting its sights high.

If your website takes more than four seconds to load, you’ve already lost a quarter of your visitors.

Philadelphia cream cheese is promoting its new line of party dips with a new chip-and-dip bowl that can detect when a partygoer “double dips,” or puts a chip back in a dip bowl between bites. The prototype “Double Diptector” smart bowl connects with a smartphone app to monitor when someone double dips.