Amazon Prime Now, known for quick delivery of groceries and household goods, is getting into the car business — at least for a day. The online retailer has partnered with Hyundai Motor America for an on-demand test-drive program in Los Angeles and Orange County in which people can book drives via Amazon’s Prime Now service. …
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By Richard Read | The Car Connection, Love them or hate them, there’s no denying that smartphones make life easier for many of us. Need a ride? Book it on Uber. Want to skip the line at the cinema? Open an app and grab some quick tickets. Shocked to see that your beloved new videogame …
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Amazon Alexa Fund made its largest investment to date in smart thermostat company ecobee. Ecobee raised a total of $35 million in its Series B round, which also included Thomvest Ventures and existing investor Relay Ventures. The web giant and Canadian startup already had a budding relationship, as ecobee was the first smart thermostat to …
Amazon Alexa Fund made its largest investment to date in smart thermostat company ecobee. Ecobee raised a total of $35 million in its Series B round, which also included Thomvest Ventures and existing investor Relay Ventures. The web giant and Canadian startup already had a budding relationship, as ecobee was the first smart thermostat to …
Amazon.com, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Alexa Fund has poured its largest investment to date into the smart Wi-Fi connected thermostat, Ecobee, investing $35 million into the latter from its $100 million fund. The retail giant initially began the fund with the aim of encouraging developers to experiment with new services, making most of its hefty investments into …
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PCIe 4.0 will double interconnect performance bandwidth and be better poised for use in mobile and IoT applications. SAN FRANCISCO—PCI Express (PCIe), the bus standard that already drives many internal computer components from graphics card to storage devices, is already fast and powerful. But it could soon be getting even better. Version 4.0 of the …
Scott Amyx Crunch Network Contributor Scott Amyx is a thought leader, speaker and author on wearables and the Internet of Things, and is the managing partner at Venture1st and CEO of Amyx+. How to join the network We often highlight our frailties when we fail — we are, after all, only human. However, technology is …
Image courtesy of frankieleon This is, unfortunately, becoming one of the most predictable stories of the early 21st century. It goes something like this: new tech product comes on the market. Consumers, finding product solves their problem, eagerly buy. Then the company that made the product turns off the server that made the thing “smart,” …
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Amazon Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is fast proving its relevance in the automotive industry, and the new partnership with Hyundai aptly proves this. Using Amazon’s Echo speakers already linked to the Alexa system, owners of the new Hyundai Genesis G90 car can issue voice commands to their car right from inside their rooms and get the car performing …
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On Thursday, Amazon announced that owners of the Hyundai Genesis G80 and G90 would be able to use Alexa voice commands to remotely control their vehicles. The feature is being viewed by many in the industry as an indication of Hyundai’s seriousness in establishing Genesis as a distinct luxury division. Alexa is now capable of …