The Alexa Fund announced that it has chosen nine companies for this year’s Alexa Accelerator. The Accelerator, a program designed to support early-stage startups using voice to...
Eight teams are working to build chatbots using Amazon’s resources and win the Alexa Skills $1.5 million prize (with $2 million in other grants and...
How to bring mobile banking to the realm of the spoken word – beyond the mere recitation of account data? Beyond call and response? Fiserv...
Consumers are increasingly comfortable chatting with their robot friends. A quick glance at the PYMNTS/Visa How We Will Pay survey indicated that a growing segment...
A former senior manager and lead for Alexa AI has left Amazon for a new position at Google. According to Quartz, Ashwin Ram is now...
Orbita CEO Bill Rogers has a relative with dementia. As dementia patients often do, she repeats a lot of the same questions, and it drives...
Amazon has acquired Graphiq, Inc., a data analysis and search engine startup, to help improve its Alexa virtual assistant and other services. The Los Angeles Times...
Cash is garnering less interest among American consumers, who are excited about mobile payments. That’s according to a new survey from Viewpost, which polled 1,000...
For the past decade, brand experiences have moved from thinking from a PC-first mindset to a mobile-first mindset. While this certainly took some time as...