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1.6KInternet 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, whose only market is China, according to reports on...
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4.1KAppleApple Continues Price Cuts, Including For Smart Speakers
No one will ever confuse Apple for a discount retailer – it’s a chore to even imagine that – but the company...
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5.7KPayment MethodsSamsung Pay: Getting Past Contextual Commerce Friction
For an increasingly growing share of connected consumers, contextual commerce is becoming a way of life – even if they aren’t exactly...
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2.8KAppleApple Music Likely Coming To Google Home Speakers
In a move that shows Apple’s softening stance on its software services, Apple Music could be coming to Google Home speakers, according...
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2.9KVoice ActivationSamsung Teases April Debut Of Galaxy Home Smart Speaker
After announcing its Galaxy Home smart speaker in 2018, Samsung Mobile CEO DJ Koh has reportedly indicated that the device would be...
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14.8KIntelligence 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 active around the world. As the IoT market...
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4.0KAmazonAmazon Dominates Smart Speaker Q4 Shipments
A new report shows that smart speaker sales are on the rise, with Amazon taking the top spot in shipments. Strategy Analytics...
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6.0KRetailThe Payments And Commerce Game Of The Super Bowl
For certain sports fans, it’s one of best times of the year, a weeks-long period of anticipation, anxiety and hope. That’s because...
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3.0KToday In DataToday In Data: The Transforming World Of 2019
The world of 2019 is quickly gearing up to become quite a different place than the year we just left behind. Rules...
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6.5KAlexaAlexa Now In More Than 100M Devices
Amazon’s senior vice president of devices and services Dave Limp told The Verge that more than 100 million devices with Alexa integrated...
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6.2KSecurity & FraudInfoSec CTO: How To Improve The Privacy IQ Of Smart Devices
When it comes to the world of cybercrime touching the connected smart devices that consumers are increasingly using, it is easy to...
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4.1KAmazonAmazon’s Holiday Sales Foreshadow 2019 Retail Trends
Judging by its holiday performance and PYMNTS research, Amazon is well on its way to commanding more of consumers’ paychecks in 2019....
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5.0KArtificial 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, CNBC reported. Gene Munster and Will Thompson, two...
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4.8KGoogleGoogle Hardware Poised To Make Billions By 2021
With products like smart home speakers, Nest cameras and well-reviewed Pixel phones, Google hardware is selling and thriving, according to a report...
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2.9KNewsFive At Five: Amazon Doesn’t Have A Lock On Smart Speakers
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest news about...
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3.7KAmazon TechnologyAmazon Sends Thousands Of Alexa Recordings To German User
A man in Germany was curious what Amazon’s Alexa had recorded in his home, so he contacted Amazon and asked to listen...
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3.6KAmazonAmazon Echo Goes On Backorder
Shoppers might have to wait until the New Year to get their hands on one of Amazon’s Echo smart speakers. Bloomberg reported...
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3.7KAppleApple HomePod Plans 2019 Chinese Debut
Apple’s HomePod wireless speaker is set to go on sale in China next year, beating Amazon and Google speaker offerings into the country....
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4.0KEcosystemsIs Voice The Glue Of The Google Ecosystem?
Five years ago, a voice-activated device was mostly something that existed in the realm of science fiction. Siri had been around for a...
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12.5KInternet of ThingsIoT Needs An Injection Of Trust — As Much As It Can Get, In Fact
It’s being built with every new car and truck on the road, every smart speaker sold this holiday season, every time a...
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3.5KAlexaPandora Premium Subscribers Can Now Stream Music Via Alexa Devices
Pandora, the music streaming service, is now enabling Pandora Premium subscribers to stream music through Amazon Echo devices and third-party speakers with...
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6.0KAmazonAmazon Previews Alexa-Hosted Skills For AWS
Amazon has announced the developer preview of Alexa-hosted skills for Amazon Web Services. In a blog post on Thursday (November 15), Amazon said...
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4.2KRetailFive Innovative Ways Consumers Shop In The Digital Age
In the connected age, consumers have more ways to interact with retailers than ever before. While brick-and-mortar stores are still popular with...
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7.4KRetailAdobe: Why Voice And Touch Retail Will Boost 2018 Holiday Sales
Consumers want to touch before they buy, and they want to talk when they purchase. Those promise to stand as two main...
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7.3KSubscriptionsSpotify Paid Subscriptions Jump 40 Pct YoY
Spotify’s paid members now number 87 million — a 40 percent year-over-year (YoY) increase from 2017. The music-streaming service announced in its...
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3.4KArtificial IntelligenceEcosystems: Google, Disney And The Power Of Parental Spend
There are some hit toys from the 1960s that were genuine classics – so much so that they are still with us today. This...
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6.0KNewsFive At Five: Walmart Ups Shipping And Returns Game
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest move by...
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4.5KAmazonAmazon Echo: America’s Most Popular Smart Speaker
A new survey says that the most popular smart speaker model in the U.S. is the Amazon Echo. According to Strategy Analytics’...
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4.7KArtificial IntelligenceAmazon Alexa’s Ability To Whisper Is Now Live In The U.S.
A couple of weeks after teasing Amazon Alexa’s ability to whisper back to voice commands, the feature is now live. According to...
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4.0KAmazon InnovationsAmazon Patent Enables Alexa To Detect Illness Via Voice
Amazon is trying to make Alexa, its voice-activated personal assistant, act as a doctor or nurse, detecting illness by a change in...
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5.5KArtificial IntelligenceIt’s Not Smart Tech If It’s Foolish
When English mountaineer George Mallory was asked in 1923 by The New York Times why he wanted to attempt to climb Mount Everest...
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3.2KAmazonAmazon Highlights New Alexa Skill Connections
Amazon announced Thursday (Oct. 4) the preview of skill connections for all current Alexa locales. In a blog post, the company said...
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6.1KEcosystemsThe Quickly And Quietly Growing World Of Voice-Assisted Health And Wellness
For most people, absently swiping through an Instagram feed, or flipping a light switch, or going to a doctor’s office don’t register...
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13.6KEcosystemsAmazon’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 bit past the halfway mark in 2018, Alexa’s...
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4.1KNewsFive At Five: Rakuten Takes On Amazon
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes the latest plan to...
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3.7KInnovationBose Launches Smart Speakers With Alexa Built In
Bose, the home audio company, announced news on Tuesday (August 28) of the launch of its Bose® Home Speaker 500 for music...
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3.1KVoice ActivationGoogle To Intro Its Own Smart Speaker With Screen
Google is reportedly gearing up to launch a smart speaker with a display just in time for the holiday selling season. The...
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4.1KNewsFive At Five: Does Walmart Have A Secret Weapon?
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at today’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes discussion of an edge that...
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3.1KRetailChinese Smart Speaker Shipments Reach 16.8M
Smart speaker sales continue to grow at a record pace, and new data shows that China is now the leader in that...
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3.0KGoogleGoogle Closing In On Amazon’s Smart Speaker Lead
New research shows that Google gained ground on Amazon’s global smart speaker share for the second quarter of 2018. Strategy Analytics’ latest...
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3.0KAlexaAlexa Voice Interaction Comes To Apple iOS
To help users on iPhones and iPads use Alexa, Amazon has unveiled voice interaction for the popular voice assistant on its iOS...
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3.7KToday In DataToday In Data: So Many Ways To Buy, So Little Time
Consumers love choice and are always ready to embrace the next big thing. The explosion of voice assistants and the smart speaker market are...
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5.1KArtificial IntelligenceWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Voice (Commerce)
Speak. Listen. Shop. Get informed. Commerce – and so much else – will never be the same in a world where the spoken word...
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3.6KAlexaWill Prime Day Be A Big Power Boost For Alexa?
When a consumer talks to a voice assistant, odds are very good that Alexa‘s is the digital voice they will hear. According...
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2.9KVoice ActivationSmart Speaker Installed Base Poised To Near 100M Mark This Year
The smart speaker installed base is expected to near the 100 million mark by the end of 2018, representing close to 2.5...
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3.1KVoice ActivationYandex Eats Up Russian Market Share With Plus Membership, Smart Speaker
Amazon, Google and Apple are all gunning to become the biggest name in the global smart speaker market, but Russia is one...
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4.3KVoice ActivationAlexa Snafu Raises Concerns For Smart Speaker Skeptics
Many have worried that Amazon’s Alexa is spying on them through their Echo device. Others, like this Oregon family, merely joked about...
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2.6KGoogleGoogle Beats Amazon In Q1 Smart Speaker Shipments
Google might be feeling pretty smart today about its high-tech Home and Home Mini speakers. That’s because a new research report puts...
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4.2KGoogleFandango Brings Movie Ticket Buying To Google Assistant
Google has announced a partnership with Fandango that allows users to purchase tickets through Google Assistant. “We worked with Fandango so you...
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Coming Soon To Alexa: A Memory
Amazon’s Alexa, its voice-activated digital assistant, is getting a memory, which means she’ll be able to remember information that humans often forget. In...
