The race to voice-activated software is on. This week, Amazon announced it’s rolling out the technology behind its voice assistant Alexa. With this information, developers have the power to build chat features directly into their current and future applications. Dubbed Amazon Lex, this offering was initially...
MultiSoft Corporation announced in a press release that it has integrated the Amazon Pay platform into their MarketPowerPRO MLM software system. The company is now the first and only U.S.-based MLM, direct selling, party plan and network marketing software provider to offer this payment feature to...
Codisto, a marketplace integration software company and Magento Imagine sponsor, has launched its Amazon integration for Magento and WooCommerce, which will accompany its current eBay integration. According to a press release, now more than 1 million merchants can benefit from the full, real-time synchronization of...
Amazon wants to give customers the best price available for streaming music. Or, at least, it wants to do so for some of its customers — namely, the ones that have Echo devices already or are willing to get one on the double. According to...
After a four year spat, it seems peace has been reached between Amazon and Target, at least when it comes to the sale of Amazon’s tablets and e-readers on its website and on its shelves. The gadgets are already back online and will begin showing...
In a move being hailed by as “clever” by some and “creepy” by others, Amazon is moving to make the AI that powers Alexa just a little more sensitive to consumers’ needs. And, as it turns out, a little more empathic, or at least apologetic,...
Amazon’s Alexa, the cloud-based virtual assistant, now has over a 1,000 skills under its belt. Since the launch of the Alexa Skills Kit less than a year ago, the Seattle-based company has been making strides in working with the developer community to build out Alexa’s...
Encryption is most certainly having a moment, though not in the way its proponents might expect. While Apple is fighting a legal battle in support of it, another major retailer just sandbagged encryption in a major way. Motherboard reported that it all began when owners...
While Amazon’s voice-controlled Echo may have caught consumers off-guard when it was first released last year, the retailer has been hard at work adding features to the device to make it more appealing to the least tech-savvy Prime members out there. According to ZDNet, Amazon...