voice commerce

The Digital Shift Will Be Verbalized
The Digital Shift Will Be Verbalized
October 05, 2020  |  Merchant Innovation

Given that nearly half of U.S. consumers (48 percent) moved the majority of their shopping online during the pandemic — and seeing as how many...

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Amazon Adds Driver Aids To Alexa App
Amazon Adds Driver Aids To Alexa App
October 01, 2020  |  Amazon

Amazon Inc. launched new features the company says will make the Alexa smartphone app more useful for drivers of automobiles. The features are detailed in...

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Car IQ Teams With Discover To Fast-Track Automotive Banking
Car IQ Teams With Discover To Fast-Track Automotive Banking
October 01, 2020  |  Retail

By 2025, it is estimated that $86 billion will be spent on in-car commerce. That number assumes that human beings would be the ones giving...

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Today In Payments: Treasury Says PPP Loan Forgiveness Coming Soon; DOJ’s Google Antitrust Lawsuit Could Come Next Week
Today In Payments: Treasury Says PPP Loan Forgiveness Coming Soon; DOJ’s Google Antitrust Lawsuit Could...
September 30, 2020  |  News

In today’s top news, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said it would soon begin forgiving Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, and the Department of...

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Baidu’s Smart Living Group Valued At Nearly $3B
Baidu’s Smart Living Group Valued At Nearly $3B
September 30, 2020  |  Investments

Chinese search engine and artificial intelligence (AI) giant Baidu is accelerating its push into the booming voice assistant sector that has spawned AI celebrities like...

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NEW REPORT: How Voice Assistants Help Win Consumer Spend – And Their Trust
NEW REPORT: How Voice Assistants Help Win Consumer Spend – And Their Trust
September 30, 2020  |  Merchant Innovation

More than 100 million consumers in the United States have switched from shopping in stores to shopping online since the pandemic began, and 83 percent...

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Nacha Provides Guidance On Voice Payments, Cybersecurity
Nacha Provides Guidance On Voice Payments, Cybersecurity
September 18, 2020  |  Financial Inclusion

Nacha, the nonprofit that manages the movement of trillions of dollars in electronic payments, announced the debut of voice payments and cybersecurity resources on Thursday (Sept. 17)....

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Finding Voice Commerce’s ‘Hero’ Use Case
Finding Voice Commerce’s ‘Hero’ Use Case
September 10, 2020  |  Amazon Payments

COVID-19 has unexpectedly acted as a major boon to the voice commerce ecosystem. Amazon Pay Head of Product Kris Zanuldin told Karen Webster in a...

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Big Tech’s Zigbee Alliance Eyes 2021 ‘Smart Home’ Standard
Big Tech’s Zigbee Alliance Eyes 2021 ‘Smart Home’ Standard
September 08, 2020  |  Internet of Things

We’re all doing, well, everything from home, so it makes sense that home should be a bit easier to deal with. In what might be...

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