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Evercore ISI’s Ken Sena performs his analysis of Amazon’s Alexa business and computes its overall cost for 2016 Published By: Eunice Gettys on January 9, 2017 01:38 pm EST Last week, Amazon.com, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) voice assistant division Amazon Alexa demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2017 that it has a command in the space, […]

SAN DIEGO — You might need to shield more than just your child’s ears from the news sometimes. Your Alexa device could be listening as well. Alexa is the digital assistant in Amazon’s Echo Dot that reacts to vocal commands. In a segment Thursday for XETV in San Diego, anchor Jim Patton talked about a

WooHoo doesn’t just want to be your new Amazon Echo — it wants to do everything for you. With facial recognition, a cam, a touch screen and smart-home hub functionality, SmartBeings WooHoo brings a lot of extras to the voice assistant role. Now, we’ll just need to see if it can master any of those

Did you read our story last week about the little girl in Texas who used Alexa to order a dollhouse and cookies? She says the family’s Echo Dot mistook a conversation for an order request. The unusual story made national news and was featured on local stations as well. When one anchor mentioned the “wake

Ayla Networks recently announced an enhanced suite of services leveraging the tool for Internet of Things manufacturers Despite the explosive growth of smart products entering the market, the Internet of Things space still feels relatively disjointed. While numerous companies have stepped forward to pitch their IoT hubs as the future-forward solution for integrating multiple unaffiliated