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ANTITRUSTAre Voice Ecosystems The Next Antitrust Battleground For Big Tech?
In less than a decade, voice-activated artificial intelligence (AI) assistants like Alexa and Siri...
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Internet of ThingsAlibaba Boosts Investments In Voice Commerce
China’s Alibaba Group is putting $1.4 billion into the development of artificial intelligence (AI)...
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Voice ActivationPandemic Gives A Lift To Voice Assistant Technologies
Voice assistant technology already had an audience even before the coronavirus outbreak gave it...
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LegalUK Celebrity Law Firm Warns Remote Staff To Turn Off...
A U.K. law firm, Mishcon de Reya, has warned attorneys who are working from...
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Internet of ThingsAmazon Unseats Google In Fast-Growing EU Smart Home Market
Europe’s smart home market growth increased in the last year, growing by 18.1 percent...
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Voice ActivationAmazon Echo Smart Speakers Outselling Google Home
As smart speakers surge in popularity, Amazon Echo is the clear leader, outselling Google...
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EcosystemsOvercoming Voice’s Discovery Problem
There is no shortage of skills for users to choose from when talking to...
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Voice ActivationGoogle’s Growing Global Challenge To Amazon’s Voice Dominance
On their shared home territory of the U.S. market, Amazon and Google have spent...
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Security & FraudAmazon, Google Smart Speakers Could Be Breached By Hackers
Security researchers at SRLabs have discovered a new vulnerability that could leave Google and...
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InnovationGoogle’s Plan To Make Its Assistant Ubiquitous And Invisible
The cool weather was slow to show up in some parts of the U.S....
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AlexaThe New Alexa Experience: Upgraded Speakers, Wild Wearables And Celebrity...
Another day, another tech event announcing the latest and greatest hitting the market this...
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Amazon InnovationsWhat Clues Can Last Year’s Results Offer For Amazon’s 2019...
Amazon has always been a “go big or go home” kind of operation, and...
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AmazonAmazon Enters Health Device Race With Fitness Tracking Earbuds
Amazon is planning to introduce two new products: an even bigger Echo speaker with...
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Internet of ThingsGoogle Knocked To Third Spot In Global Smart Speaker Sales
Google lost its second-place spot in smart speaker sales to Chinese tech company Baidu,...
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AppleApple Continues Price Cuts, Including For Smart Speakers
No one will ever confuse Apple for a discount retailer – it’s a chore...
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Payment MethodsSamsung Pay: Getting Past Contextual Commerce Friction
For an increasingly growing share of connected consumers, contextual commerce is becoming a way...
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AppleApple Music Likely Coming To Google Home Speakers
In a move that shows Apple’s softening stance on its software services, Apple Music...
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Voice ActivationSamsung Teases April Debut Of Galaxy Home Smart Speaker
After announcing its Galaxy Home smart speaker in 2018, Samsung Mobile CEO DJ Koh...
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Intelligence of Things‘Alexa — Is My Data Secure On Connected Devices?’
By 2020, there will be an estimated 26 billion Intelligence of Things (IoT)-connected devices...
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AmazonAmazon Dominates Smart Speaker Q4 Shipments
A new report shows that smart speaker sales are on the rise, with Amazon...
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RetailThe Payments And Commerce Game Of The Super Bowl
For certain sports fans, it’s one of best times of the year, a weeks-long...
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Today In DataToday In Data: The Transforming World Of 2019
The world of 2019 is quickly gearing up to become quite a different place...
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AlexaAlexa Now In More Than 100M Devices
Amazon’s senior vice president of devices and services Dave Limp told The Verge that...
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Security & FraudInfoSec CTO: How To Improve The Privacy IQ Of Smart...
When it comes to the world of cybercrime touching the connected smart devices that...
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AmazonAmazon’s Holiday Sales Foreshadow 2019 Retail Trends
Judging by its holiday performance and PYMNTS research, Amazon is well on its way...
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Artificial IntelligenceAnalysts Say Siri Has Gotten Smarter, But Lags The Competition
Apple’s voice assistant, Siri, has made some major improvements in the last few months,...
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GoogleGoogle Hardware Poised To Make Billions By 2021
With products like smart home speakers, Nest cameras and well-reviewed Pixel phones, Google hardware...
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NewsFive At Five: Amazon Doesn’t Have A Lock On Smart...
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce...
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Amazon TechnologyAmazon Sends Thousands Of Alexa Recordings To German User
A man in Germany was curious what Amazon’s Alexa had recorded in his home,...
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AmazonAmazon Echo Goes On Backorder
Shoppers might have to wait until the New Year to get their hands on...
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AppleApple HomePod Plans 2019 Chinese Debut
Apple’s HomePod wireless speaker is set to go on sale in China next year,...
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EcosystemsIs Voice The Glue Of The Google Ecosystem?
Five years ago, a voice-activated device was mostly something that existed in the realm of...
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Internet of ThingsIoT Needs An Injection Of Trust — As Much As...
It’s being built with every new car and truck on the road, every smart...
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AlexaPandora Premium Subscribers Can Now Stream Music Via Alexa Devices
Pandora, the music streaming service, is now enabling Pandora Premium subscribers to stream music...
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AmazonAmazon Previews Alexa-Hosted Skills For AWS
Amazon has announced the developer preview of Alexa-hosted skills for Amazon Web Services. In...
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RetailFive Innovative Ways Consumers Shop In The Digital Age
In the connected age, consumers have more ways to interact with retailers than ever...
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RetailAdobe: Why Voice And Touch Retail Will Boost 2018 Holiday...
Consumers want to touch before they buy, and they want to talk when they...
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SubscriptionsSpotify Paid Subscriptions Jump 40 Pct YoY
Spotify’s paid members now number 87 million — a 40 percent year-over-year (YoY) increase...
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Artificial IntelligenceEcosystems: Google, Disney And The Power Of Parental Spend
There are some hit toys from the 1960s that were genuine classics – so much so...
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NewsFive At Five: Walmart Ups Shipping And Returns Game
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce...
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AmazonAmazon Echo: America’s Most Popular Smart Speaker
A new survey says that the most popular smart speaker model in the U.S....
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Artificial IntelligenceAmazon Alexa’s Ability To Whisper Is Now Live In The...
A couple of weeks after teasing Amazon Alexa’s ability to whisper back to voice...
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Amazon InnovationsAmazon Patent Enables Alexa To Detect Illness Via Voice
Amazon is trying to make Alexa, its voice-activated personal assistant, act as a doctor...
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Artificial IntelligenceIt’s Not Smart Tech If It’s Foolish
When English mountaineer George Mallory was asked in 1923 by The New York Times...
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AmazonAmazon Highlights New Alexa Skill Connections
Amazon announced Thursday (Oct. 4) the preview of skill connections for all current Alexa...
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EcosystemsThe Quickly And Quietly Growing World Of Voice-Assisted Health And...
For most people, absently swiping through an Instagram feed, or flipping a light switch,...
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EcosystemsAmazon’s 20K Devices, And The Tightening Race For AI Dominance
When 2018 rang in, Alexa was compatible with just over 4,000 devices. A little...
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NewsFive At Five: Rakuten Takes On Amazon
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce...
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InnovationBose Launches Smart Speakers With Alexa Built In
Bose, the home audio company, announced news on Tuesday (August 28) of the launch...
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Voice ActivationGoogle To Intro Its Own Smart Speaker With Screen
Google is reportedly gearing up to launch a smart speaker with a display just...
