Ford cars will soon offer Alexa, but also competitive agents. Image: Ford Amazon’s Alexa voice agent has been the biggest surprise hit for the mammoth online retailer since it moved into the cloud storage business with Amazon Web Services. Alexa showed up at CES 2017 in full force. As Larry Dignan notes, the agent picked […]
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As many expected, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank stole the show during CES last week with his keynote presentation that included some very special guests. But while Plank shared interesting details regarding his ambitious vision for the company and recent efforts in the connected fitness space, there were plenty of other places for investors to track
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Every year at CES, some of the world’s biggest tech companies try to one-up each other. TVs get thinner and brighter. Home appliances get chattier and robots get friendlier. But this year, instead of standing out for their memorable devices, a lot of companies showed up with a shared identity: the voice of Alexa. Within
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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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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
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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
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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
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January 09, 2017 12:29 p.m. Updated Gentex eyes home automation market By David Sedgwick Gentex CFO Steve Downing Pretty soon, motorists will punch a button in their overhead console to open the garage door, turn on the house lights, adjust the home temperature, turn on the sound system and unlock the front door. This next
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January 09, 2017 Share this content: Sensors and Alexa proliferated, but the tech conference really confirmed what marketers already knew. Image source: Thinkstock As futuristic tech conferences go, this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was among the strangest. The annual event lasted four days and wrapped Sunday. This year’s CES offered few landmark
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What happened Acuity Brands (NYSE:AYI) reported first-quarter results in the early morning hours on Monday. In response to the news, shares of the industrial LED lighting specialist fell as much as 18.7% during the morning session. So what In the first quarter, Acuity’s net sales increased 16% year over year, landing at $851 million. Adjusted
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