Author name: Trey Pascador

Amazon shares are down about 6% in post market trading after the e-retailer released Q3 earnings that fell short of Wall Street expectations. The company reported net income of $252 million, up about 219% from the period last year, on revenues of $32.71 billion, up 29%. The top line slightly beat expectations for $32.69 billion. But …

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In the US and much of the world, you have big names like Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Uber (Private:UBER) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). In China, you have their counterparts that are less known globally: Alibaba (NYSE:BABA), Wechat, Didi, Huawei. Why is that these global companies have a strong foothold everywhere except the second largest economy in …

From Copying To Creating: Chinese Tech Firms Eyeing Global Expansion Read More »

“Alexa, turn on the lights.” Consumers like the idea that a simple voice command like this can make their home a place of simplicity and leisure, where essentially having a conversation with your walls, or the human-like personal assistant living inside them such as Amazon’s Alexa, accomplishes small tasks like turning on the lights, changing …

Are Gesture-Control Devices the Next Big Thing in Home Tech? Read More »

BOSTON (October 27, 2016)—Orbita unveiled last week the industry’s first HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based solution designed specifically to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of connected home health care. Organizations using the Orbita platform can easily create, manage and deliver practical digital home healthcare applications that improve medical outcomes and reduce health care costs for individuals with chronic and …

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Voice control platforms like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google’s Google Home are taking the smart home industry by storm.Home loudspeakers, light fixtures, thermostats and, more recently, complete home automation systems from Crestron and Control4 are integrating the technology to provide consumers with a hand-free mode of managing the electronic devices in their homes … …

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