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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,
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