Category Archives: Amazon

Amazon Prime Video Seeks Cultural Relevance with All Voices Film Festival

Posted on April 9, 2019 by ddeal

Amazon Prime Video wants to empower diverse voices with a new film festival. On April 8, Prime Video began accepting entries for the first annual All Voices Film Festival. According to Prime Video, the All Voices Film Festival is designed to … Continue reading →

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How Advertising Helps Amazon Change the World

Posted on February 18, 2019 by ddeal

Amazon is an advertising powerhouse. The company is the third-largest digital advertising platform in the United States and the fifth-largest ad spender. But as CNBC noted in a recent article, Jeff Bezos wasn’t always a believer in advertising. Ten years ago, he said, “Advertising … Continue reading →

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Why Amazon and Google Are Fighting to Lead the Voice-First Economy

Posted on January 15, 2019 by ddeal

To no one’s surprise, the story of CES 2019 was the battle between Amazon and Google to lead the emerging voice-first world. CES was awash with announcements about products such as alarm clocks and thermostats powered by Amazon’s Alexa virtual … Continue reading →

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Shareable Custom Alexa Skills Bring Us Closer to a Voice-First Future

Posted on June 13, 2018 by ddeal

Amazon continues to create a voice-first future. In April, Amazon launched Alexa Skill Blueprints, which makes it possible for anyone to create their own Alexa skills and responses, with no coding required. And now Amazon has made Alexa Skill Blueprints … Continue reading →

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Why Amazon Prime May Be the Future of On-Demand Living

Posted on May 2, 2018 by ddeal

Amazon fed investors a smorgasbord of impressive performance statistics in its quarterly earnings announcement April 25 – such as a 43-percent increase in year-over-year revenues and the generation of $1.4 billion in operating income for Q1 2018. But by the … Continue reading →

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Boom! Amazon Makes Voice a Whole Lot Bigger

Posted on April 19, 2018 by ddeal

Amazon just extended its influence on how everyday people live. Today Amazon announced the launch of Alexa Blueprints, which makes it possible for anyone to create their own Alexa skills and responses with the popular voice assistant – and no … Continue reading →

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Amazon: One Industry to Rule Them All?

Posted on February 21, 2018 by ddeal

For once, Amazon is playing catch-up. The great disruptor is just another player in the entertainment space. Amazon Studios, its TV and movie arm, is still looking for a blockbuster like Game of Thrones to compete in an elite league … Continue reading →

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Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg Want to Change How We Live

Posted on December 2, 2017 by ddeal

Recently Amazon and Facebook announced new products that will extend their reach into the corporate world: Amazon’s Alexa for Business, unveiled November 30, is a platform for a business’s employees to use the Amazon Alexa voice assistant (in Amazon Echo … Continue reading →

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Why Amazon Bought Whole Foods: To Beat Walmart

Posted on June 16, 2017 by ddeal

Why did Amazon buy Whole Foods? To beat Walmart in the war for the on-demand grocery shopper. As announced June 16, Amazon and Whole Foods have agreed that Amazon will acquire Whole Foods Market for $42 per share in an all-cash … Continue reading →

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Is HomePod Apple’s Death Star in the Music Streaming Wars?

Posted on June 5, 2017 by ddeal

Apple’s newly announced HomePod smart speaker is more than Apple’s answer to Amazon Echo and Google Home in the battle for your home – it’s quite possibly Apple’s major advantage in the music streaming wars. In unveiling the HomePod June 5 … Continue reading →

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