Amazon announced that Alexa is going to sound more human, with a new set of speaking skills that allow her to do things like whisper, take a breath to pause for emphasis, adjust the rate, pitch and volume of her speech, “bleep” out her words...
Is apparel retail reaching a tipping point, whereafter it becomes a mostly digital experience? And is Amazon about to be the big beneficiary of that change? That is the question the New York Times posed over the weekend — in the face of data that...
When it comes to reporting quarterly earnings, there’s beating Wall Street’s expectations, really beating them, and then there is what Amazon did yesterday. Eight straight quarters of profits seem to have finally shaken off its reputation for being the world’s most successful company that failed...
Dialpad, a cloud-based business communications platform, announced Tuesday (April 25) an integration with Amazon Echo that enables users to perform business phone tasks by voice commands. According to a report in TechCrunch, for example, a user can ask Alexa if they have any phone messages on...
A new study from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) estimates that Amazon Prime memberships doubled in the past two years to more than 80 million people in the U.S. — and about 60 percent of all U.S. Amazon shoppers are now Prime members. According to GeekWire, this is a membership increase...
Amazon shares (AMZN) continue to ride high through April, skirting the 900 line with prices fluctuating just above and below, closing out the third week of April trading just below. AMZN was up 1.05 percent from the past week’s close in pre-market trading, looking to start...
Ecommerce giant Amazon expanded its subscription business after an announcement on Monday (April 24) detailed the launch of Subscribe With Amazon, a marketplace to subscribe to and manage digital subscriptions. On its website, Amazon said the subscriptions will be from a slew of service providers, including...
They say two heads are better than one — and when it comes to taking on a player like Amazon, it probably doesn’t hurt to throw an extra head into the mix. Which likely explains the three-pronged attack on Amazon’s Southeast Asia expansion signaled by the...
Alexa’s been in the spotlight for awhile now as Amazon’s darling voice-activated AI assistant. But the deep learning technologies behind the voice of Echo, Echo Dot and a growing number of other devices has, for the most part, stayed cooped up with Amazon Web Services....
