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Amazon is on a roll adding functionality after functionality to its smart assistant, Amazon Alexa. Just last week Amazon added Alexa to the main Amazon app, and now the company has announced that Amazon Alexa will be able to order from Prime Now, the two-hour delivery services introduced for Prime members. In addition (and here’s…
Amazon’s attempt to break into the smartphone market didn’t really work that well for the company, but the retail giant refused to give up its hardware ambitions, finding a gap in the untapped smart home device segment instead, and exploiting it using Amazon Alexa-powered Amazon Echo devices. One big reason for their success is is…
Amazon yesterday announced that customers have ranked the company #1 in the ACSI (American Customer Satisfaction Index) that was just released. Boasting a score of 86 from a survey of 10,000 customers to measure how they perceived quality and value in the retail space, Amazon is now practically wearing a garland of accolades. After winning three…
According to a note by RBC Capital Markets published on Thursday, Amazon Alexa could potentially bring in $10 billion in revenues for Amazon.com Inc. The smart personal assistant began life on Amazon Echo and related smart speaker devices for consumers, but is quickly making its way into a plethora of smart consumer devices though API…
According to a new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, or CIRP, there are now 8.2 million Amazon Echo devices in the United States. In November 2016 that count was 5.1 million, which indicates a 60% increase in a two month period. How did Amazon Echo do so well in such a short period of…
Amazon last week quietly launched virtual Amazon Prime Dash buttons for web and mobile use, allowing Prime members to simply tap and order items ranging from Clorox to Play-Doh on their smartphones, tablets and PCs instead of tapping on a physical button attached to the wall or an appliance. Dash buttons are more than 18 months old…
Since its launch in October 2005, Amazon Prime has bloated to over 64 million members. Sources vary on the actual number, but suffice it to say that nearly half of all U.S. households have at least one member. From a popularity perspective there are other loyalty programs in the United States and around the world…
Recent information from within Amazon revealed that over 100 million Alexa-enabled devices (Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, etc.) have been sold since the product line launched more than four years ago, on November 6, 2014. Although the Echo Dot followed a year and a half later, with an initial launch in March 2016, the more diminutive…
Investment bank Morgan Stanley recently published a note that shows that Amazon.com sold 11 million Amazon Echo devices between the middle of 2015 and December 1, 2016. We already know that Amazon sold more than 9 times the number of Amazon Echo units during the 2016 holiday season over the year before. This new information now indicates…
Over the past month Alexa, the virtual assistant from the Amazon Echo smart speaker, has forayed far and wide. But, rather than looking at the short-term success of Alexa’s capabilities, let’s look at what this represents for Amazon and Bezos’ strategy for building out the company’s “pillars of longevity”, if you will. The growth patterns of…
Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Data Group, Joseph Sirosh, wrote on the company’s official Azure blog about how the company is moving from “A PC on every desktop” to “deep learning in every software”. Though the statement might seem a bit loaded, it does sum things up about the direction in which Microsoft, a company…
This week, we’re finally getting 4K Netflix on Windows 10 PCs, but there’s a catch. Though Microsoft is pushing this as a benefit of their Edge browser, which will stream the content, we’ve learned that earlier versions of Intel’s processors just don’t make the cut. Essentially, the processor needs to be able to decrypt the…
Alexa is a virtual assistant that can be controlled by voice commands. He or she (or they or it or non-binary or whatever) can play audio, operate your smart home, answer questions, and connect you with your favorite services in order to help you stay organized, informed, safe, connected, and entertained. She is also your…
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Microsoft is one of the biggest names in the industry. The Redmond company has been expanding its business in recent years, providing more products to boost its sales performance. Back in 2012, Microsoft announced its Surface lineup of hybrid tablets to the public and quickly attracted a lot of attention as the company received mostly…
