Amazon just made the Echo’s voice-activated assistant, Alexa, a little more developer-friendly. The eCommerce giant has rolled out an improvement to the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) to include new features for the technology, including the ability to tailor Alexa’s volume, how it plays back media, set...
The rebound for stocks has done much to highlight and underscore sanguine investor sentiment that has buoyed most indices to at least slight gains. As The Wall Street Journal noted on Tuesday (March 22), the Dow and the broader S&P have notched slight gains thus...
According to a ruling by the SEC, Amazon should allow shareholders to vote on a proposal on gender pay equality. The ruling comes following a proposal submitted to Amazon and other tech firms (including eBay and Intel) by Arjuna Capital, the activist arm of investment firm...
Is there anything Amazon can’t do for the consumers of the world? Toys, clothes, shipping, cloud storage, electronics, the salty tears of Walmart executives — these are things you knew Amazon could bring into your life. But what if you need to run a multi-million dollar...
Amazon’s payments side might soon get a little bigger — at least for its India business. A report from The Times of India, citing sources said to be close to the matter, indicates that Amazon’s India unit has filed an application for a semi-closed digital...
“Alexa, ask Capital One: When is my credit card payment due?” That’s just one of the questions that Capital One customers can soon use to ask the Amazon Echo device and its virtual assistant, Alexa, to conduct voice-activated banking services. Alexa can also share balances and...
Sometimes, consumers just don’t know what they got ’til it’s gone. And while Amazon draws its fair share of complaints from the wider market, those customers’ reactions when Amazon goes down is a whole lot more telling than the inverse. Go down Amazon did, though....
Encryption has become one of the hottest debated subjects in the tech industry lately, and even Amazon has had its name thrown into the mix of stories. Just last week, Amazon found itself at the forefront of an encryption discussion following the news that it had dropped...
Amazon has one clear bread-and-butter service that, even during tough quarters, has given it a boost. That service, of course, is Amazon Prime. And by the looks of Amazon’s sales, which have doubled in the past three years and continue to soar each year, Prime...
