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Getting Credit Unions Ready For The Voice-Activated Future
Getting Credit Unions Ready For The Voice-Activated Future
January 03, 2018  |  Voice Activation

In what feels like the blink of an eye — and pushed by the breakout success of Amazon’s Echo line of smart speaker products —...

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Analysts Say Alexa Will Boost Commerce Sales By $10B
Analysts Say Alexa Will Boost Commerce Sales By $10B
December 22, 2017  |  Amazon Technology

Amazon’s revenue should get a boost thanks to its Alexa voice-activated devices. That’s according to RBC Capital Markets, which, according to CNBC, reaffirmed its outperform...

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Amazon Sparks Price War In Smart Speaker Market
Amazon Sparks Price War In Smart Speaker Market
December 19, 2017  |  Amazon Technology

Amazon has sparked a price war in the voice-activated smart speaker market that helped make its Echo Dot the number one product on its website...

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The Frightful Five: Fake Apps And Hubcaps
The Frightful Five: Fake Apps And Hubcaps
December 14, 2017  |  Retail

When a company is as massive as any one of the Frightful Five, the bad news is it’s inevitable that some things will slip under...

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Amazon Takes Echo Global, But Not Local
Amazon Takes Echo Global, But Not Local
December 11, 2017  |  Amazon

Amazon is making its Echo voice-enabled smart speakers available for purchase in more than 80 countries, but will only ship to the countries via Amazon.com....

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Furlexa Lights The Way For Smart Speaker Differentiation
Furlexa Lights The Way For Smart Speaker Differentiation
December 04, 2017  |  Retail

This month in 1998, parents across the U.S. were fighting in toy stores over Furbies to give to their children as holiday gifts. It was...

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Amazon Pay Is Coming To Alexa’s Skills
Amazon Pay Is Coming To Alexa’s Skills
November 30, 2017  |  Amazon

Amazon Pay is coming soon to apps developed for Amazon’s Alexa by third-party developers. That news comes care of Amazon’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this...

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Alexa’s Thankful For Strong Holiday Echo Sales
Alexa’s Thankful For Strong Holiday Echo Sales
November 29, 2017  |  Amazon Technology

Amazon.com said on Tuesday (Nov. 28) that the holiday shopping weekend kick-off was the best ever for its devices, with millions sold from Thanksgiving through...

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