WEX, the global provider of corporate payments solutions, announced Thursday (Jan. 10) a partnership with AI.io, the voice technology company, to launch Halo Travel, a travel chatbot powered by Priceline Partner Network. In a press release, WEX said Halo Travel will be the first app...
Tencent, the China Internet company, is gearing up to roll out a voice-activated digital assistant for WeChat, its messaging app. Bloomberg, citing comments WeChat executive Zhou Jie made during a company conference, reported the digital assistant will be able to conduct tasks including playing music and...
A new report claims that Samsung is set to release another smart speaker next year, in addition to the Galaxy Home. According to SamMobile, the other Samsung speaker will reportedly bear the model number “SM-V310” and come in black. While pricing for the Bixby-powered Galaxy...
Samsung Electronics is all in on Bixby, its voice-activated digital assistant, with the Financial Times reporting it plans to install Bixby on all its electronics by 2020. The report, citing Samsung Electronics, noted the company sells 500 million units of electronic products each year, which...
Samsung Electronics is expected to announce this week at an event in San Francisco that it’s opening Bixby, its voice-activated virtual assistant, to third-party app developers. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal late last week, Samsung is aiming to boost its voice-activated...
Following on the heels of several months of delays, Johnson Controls rolled out its GLAS smart thermostat for pre-orders last week. According to a report in ZDNet, the thermostat will start shipping on August 24 and will sell on Amazon and Johnson Controls’ websites for...
Google is reportedly gearing up to launch a smart speaker with a display just in time for the holiday selling season. The Nikkei Asian Review, citing an industry source, reported Google is aiming to ship around three million units during the first round. The product...
Sonos, the newly-public smart speaker company, which debuted on the Nasdaq Thursday (August 3), is gearing up to roll out integration with Google Assistant soon. In an interview with The Verge, Patrick Spence, chief executive of Sonos, said the integration should come “later this year”...
The smart speaker installed base is expected to near the 100 million mark by the end of 2018, representing close to 2.5 times the installed base at the end of last year. According to market research firm Canalys, the installed base will continue to grow...
