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Category Archives: Amazon
Why Amazon and Google Are Fighting to Lead the Voice-First Economy
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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Tagged Alexa, Amazon, Amazon Echo, Apple, CES, CES 2019, David Deal, Google, Google Assistant, Google Home, Microsoft, Samsung, Superhype, Voice First
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Shareable Custom Alexa Skills Bring Us Closer to a Voice-First Future
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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Tagged Alexa, Amazon, Blueprints, David Deal, Echo, Superhype, voice
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Why Amazon Prime May Be the Future of On-Demand Living
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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Tagged Alexa, Amazon, Amazon Prime, David Deal, Echo, Jeff Bezos, Superhype
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Boom! Amazon Makes Voice a Whole Lot Bigger
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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Tagged Alexa, Amazon, Apple, Blueprints, David Deal, Echo, Google, Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, Superhype
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Amazon: One Industry to Rule Them All?
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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Tagged Alexa, Amazon, Amazon Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, Amazon Prime Music, Amazon Studios, Apple Music, David Deal, Echo, HBO, Hulu, Jeff Bezos, Jennifer Salke, MIDiA, Netflix, Spotify, Superhype, The Lord of the Rings
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Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg Want to Change How We Live
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
Posted in Amazon, Facebook
Tagged Alexa, Alexa for Business, Amazon, David Deal, Echo, Facebook, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Oculus, Oculus for Business, Superhype, virtual reality, VR
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Why Amazon Bought Whole Foods: To Beat Walmart
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
Is HomePod Apple’s Death Star in the Music Streaming Wars?
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
Posted in Amazon, Apple, Music
Tagged Amazon, Amazon Music Unlimited, Apple, Apple Music, David Deal, Google, Google Home, HomePod, Spotify, Streaming, Superhype, Tim Cook
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Let Us Now Praise Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos is the Abraham Lincoln of the business world: he doesn’t let critics stop him from making history. The success of the Amazon Echo encapsulates his resiliency perfectly. eMarketer recently reported that Echo owns more than 70 percent of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Amazon, Amazon Echo, David Deal, Echo, Echo Look, Echo Show, Jeff Bezos, Siri, Superhype
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Amazon and Walmart Fight for the On-Demand Grocery Shopper
On March 28, Amazon fired a shot in its war with Walmart to define the future of the $600 billion grocery industry. The world’s biggest online retailer announced the beta launch of AmazonFresh Pickup, an on-demand grocery service. With AmazonFresh … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Amazon Go, AmazonFresh Pickup, David Deal, on-demand, Superhype, Uber, Walmart
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