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3.0KGoogleGoogle Assistant Beefs Up Conversational Tech
To help users make follow-up queries or ask additional questions, Google has brought the Continued Conversation feature to smart displays such as...
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5.9KVoice ActivationWhy Voice Is Vital To Connected Commutes
Here’s one way to imagine the dramatic developments in the growing connected-vehicle ecosystem, and how much is likely to change in a...
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1.9KToday In DataDigital Payments, Connected Commerce And The Need For Speed
For consumers, and increasingly for businesses, speed is coveted when it comes to payments. That’s especially true as transactions are done in...
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2.6KArtificial IntelligencePandora Debuts Voice Assistant
Streaming music provider Pandora has announced the launch of Voice Mode, a smart assistant that allows listeners to control its mobile app...
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4.4KEcosystemsCES Gives View Of Growing Connected Car Ecosystem
CES is over, but it left a clearer impression of what’s coming down the road for the connected vehicle ecosystem, an emerging...
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4.0KEcosystemsChinese P2P Falls As Other Payment Ecosystems Expand
Thanks to a nationwide crackdown on peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in China, a move that came after a series of multibillion dollar scams...
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4.7KEcosystemsPayments Takes The Driver’s Seat In Connected Cars
What still stands as a type of existential dread (or, in some cases, a period of freedom) is on the verge of...
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5.1KRetailThe Eight Retail Stories That Shaped 2018
News travels fast in payments and commerce. The world does not perhaps look terribly different, at first glance, than it did a...
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3.0KEcosystemsOrbita: Why Voice Technology Is Critical To Upgrading Healthcare
That voice-activated technology could change the face of medical care and the entire healthcare ecosystem is something that Orbita President, Co-founder and...
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3.1KAppleApple 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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11.6KInternet 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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7.5KRetailPhysical Stores Have Winning Position During Holiday Shopping
Digital is certainly the bee’s knees, the rad kid of commerce, the hippest person in the place. But don’t get too carried...
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5.1KEcosystemsTantalum CEO Talks What’s Working (And What’s Not) In The Connected Automotive Ecosystem
One might have to squint, but they can certainly see it coming — for real (not just hype) in some press release,...
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6.2KRetailAdobe: 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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5.2KInnovationAdobe Doubles Down On Voice Interfaces
At its annual MAX conference in Los Angeles last week, Adobe had all sorts of things to announce. After a (very) long...
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4.8KArtificial 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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5.0KRetailThe Retail Complexities Of Wooing Bridge Millennials
The last few years have been tough on J.Crew. Sales have slipped consistently, and only showed slight signs of improvement last quarter,...
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2.7KAmazonAmazon 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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5.0KEcosystemsThe 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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4.1KAlexa
Amazon Launches API For Alexa Gadgets
Amazon announced on Tuesday (Sept. 18) the launch of a new API, dubbed Alexa Gadget Toolkit, which is aimed at creating more...
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2.3KToday In DataToday In Data: The Rewarding, But Risky, World Of Increasing Automation
Time-consuming, manual and paperwork-heavy processes are increasingly out of fashion for digital connected consumers, and out of fit with their lifestyles. Consumers...
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3.2KToday 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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4.0KArtificial 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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3.1KAlexaWill 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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6.4KArtificial IntelligenceWhy AI Is The Future Of Community Banking
On a surface level, community banking and artificial intelligence (AI) can seem like something of a mismatch in concept. Community banking is...
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4.3KRetailThe Lebron Effect On Payments
PYMNTS may not have the greatest sports experts in the world, but even we understood the big deal concerning the addition of Lebron James to the...
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2.6KGoogleGoogle Assistant Becomes More Conversational
Google has made talking to Google Assistant easier with the launch of Continued Conversation. “For the Google Assistant to have a natural...
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2.4KAlexaAlexa Skills Kit Arrives In Italy, Spain
Amazon has announced that developers can start building voice experiences for customers in Italy and Spain using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK)....
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3.6KAmazon InnovationsAmazon Unveils Fire TV Cube With Alexa
To allow users to control their television using Alexa, Amazon is rolling out the Amazon Fire TV Cube. The device, which is...
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7.3KInnovationThe Future Of Augmented Reality Is Becoming Clearer
Recent moves from PayPal and Target have brought fresh attention to the use of augmented reality (AR) to boost commerce and payments....
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6.5KDigital BankingTSYS: Consumers Want Payments Innovation, But Not Always From FinTechs
When TSYS conducted its first consumer payments study seven years ago, the primary focus was on debit vs. credit, according to TSYS’...
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4.2KPayments InnovationStudy: Consumers Want Novel Payments Innovations But Feel Secure With Old Providers
When TSYS conducted its first consumer payments study seven years ago, the primary focus was on debit vs. credit according to TSYS’...
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2.7KArtificial IntelligenceJPMorgan Taps Carnegie Mellon Professor For AI Push
To head up its artificial intelligence (AI) research endeavors, JPMorgan Chase has hired a leading expert in the field. The head of...
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4.4KGoogleGoogle Roundup: Google Unveils ‘Duplex,’ Android To Gain Visual Assistant
Google unveiled several new features on the first day of its I/O Developer Conference on Tuesday (May 8). The additions range from visual...
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4.0KGoogleGoogle Assistant Now Connected To More Than 5,000 Devices
Google announced news on Thursday (May 3) that its Google Assistant is now connected to more than 5,000 devices in the home....
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2.5KFacebookFacebook’s Smart Speakers Fiona and Aloha’s Launch Pushed To October
Facebook’s launch of its smart speakers has reportedly been pushed back until the fall. According to Digi Times, mass production on the...
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4.7KAmazonAmazon’s Gauthier: Alexa Says “No” To Ads
Amazon Pay’s VP and GM, Patrick Gauthier, shares what he loved most about the winning entries in our 2018 Voice Challenge with...
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4.3KVoice ActivationVoice And Visual: Better Together On The Echo Show
There’s a lot that developers can do with voice, and that’s at the heart of the PYMNTS.com Voice Challenge with Amazon Alexa...
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4.5KAmazonAlexa Lost Her Voice On Friday
If Amazon wants everyone to rely on its voice-activated smart assistant Alexa, today revealed that many, many people are doing exactly that;...
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4.4KAmazon InnovationsAmazon Overhauls Alexa Skills Kit Developer Console
Amazon gears up on Thursday (Feb. 15) to roll out the largest overhaul of its Alexa Skills Kit Developer Console since it...
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3.7KFacebookFacebook Gets The Smart Speaker Itch
Facebook is gearing up to enter the smart speaker market this year with the social media giant reportedly gearing up to roll...
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4.5KMastercardSpeaking Conversation Commerce’s Language
That the era of conversational commerce is officially upon us can be seen in any number of anecdotal metrics – from the glut...
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3.1KArtificial IntelligenceAlexa Becomes Local Night Out Concierge
Amazon is gearing up to boost Alexa’s capabilities, with updates reportedly on the way that will enable users to get information about...
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4.0KInnovationVoice Control To Be Backseat Driver For Tesla Model 3
Voice-activated assistants are all the rage. Recently, Tesla CEO Elon Musk turned to Twitter to weigh in on what the technology will...
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5.4KGoogleGoogle Defends Google Home At CES
For the first time in years, Google had an official stand-alone booth at CES – a sign to buyers that it is...
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4.3KAmazon InvestmentsAmazon Wants To Build Digital Advertising Business For Alexa
Amazon’s Alexa voice-activated digital assistant is being turned into an advertising business for the eCommerce giant, with Amazon reportedly in talks with...
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4.4KGoogleLG Partners With Google On High-End Speaker
LG Electronics has announced a new line of speakers, including one that will have the Google Assistant built in, slated for launch...
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3.9KInnovationGiving AI Street Smarts
“Alexa, is the store closed?” “Alexa, does the store have clothes?” When spoken aloud, these questions sound very similar. The difference is...
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4.0KEcosystemsAlexa’s Expanding And Advancing Ecosystem
Amazon seems to have a lot to be merry about this holiday season. As of holiday 2017, three-quarters of all Americans are Prime members,...
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6.5KInternet of ThingsA Holly, Jolly – And Connected – Christmas
There will certainly be many sales to choose from once the Thanksgiving dinner dishes have all been cleared and the Black Friday...
