Since Google launched its smart speaker artificial intelligence (AI)-backed voice assistant product Google Home in November 2016, the state of the race for voice ecosystem dominance has been relatively consistent for the last three or so years. Amazon — with a head start of almost...
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...
Volara, the company that makes a hotel concierge service powered by Alexa for Business, announced news on Wednesday (April 18) that it is bringing the technology to hotel guests. In an email statement to VentureBeat, Volara Co-Founder and CEO Dave Berger said that via Alexa...
Consumers want to provide healthy dinners for their families, but it can be difficult to find the time to plan home-cooked meals. Monica Wood, for example, had to travel for work and tried having her nanny make meal kits for her kids so they wouldn’t...
August 28, 2019
Since Google launched its smart speaker artificial intelligence (AI)-backed voice assistant product Google Home in November 2016, the state of the race for voice ecosystem dominance has been relatively consistent for the last three or so years. Amazon — with a head start of almost exactly two years with its Echo/Alexa line — has been […]
November 10, 2022
Amazon is evaluating its Alexa business as the company joins other Big Tech firms in making cost-cutting measures in the face of an economic downturn. That’s according to a report Thursday (Nov. 9) by the Wall Street Journal, which cites internal Amazon documents that show Amazon’s devices unit, which includes its voice assistant tool Alexa, […]
November 20, 2018
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...
April 18, 2018
Volara, the company that makes a hotel concierge service powered by Alexa for Business, announced news on Wednesday (April 18) that it is bringing the technology to hotel guests. In...
