Before there was Alexa, Bixby, Siri and Google Assistant, there was Emma Nutt. Emma Nutt, born in 1860 in a small town in Maine, was...
Predicting the future is hard work, and as we come to the close of the 21st century’s second decade, it is fair to say that...
Speak. Listen. Shop. Get informed. Commerce – and so much else – will never be the same in a world where the spoken word is making inroads. It’s...
When a consumer talks to a voice assistant, odds are very good that Alexa‘s is the digital voice they will hear. According to eMarketer data,...
The ideal goes something like this: Consumers at any location — a friend’s house, a car — could speak into a voice assistant or smart...
Disintermediating the established intermediaries has become something of an art form in payments and retail these days. Physical retail is being disintermediated by a host...
Amazon Pay’s VP and GM, Patrick Gauthier, shares what he loved most about the winning entries in our 2018 Voice Challenge with Amazon Alexa –...
The memory of a purchase is often short-lived. The frenetic pace of daily life means it’s easy for people to forget about outstanding bills or...