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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(BII) This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “E-Commerce Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Prime members can order on their Echo via a voice search for a restaurant. The Echo will then list the orders that the customer has previously received from that location, and the user can select one
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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
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LAS VEGAS—Talking to a Las Vegas Uber driver during CES is a bit like chatting to a patient in the doctor’s office lobby who is waiting to get a colonoscopy. Sure, he knows this is all good. But boy, does the traffic suck in the here and now. Yeah, it’s a safe bet to say
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January 9, 2017 – By Winifred Garcia · 0 Comments The stock of Control4 Corporation (NASDAQ:CTRL) registered a decrease of 3.54% in short interest. CTRL’s total short interest was 1.21 million shares in January as published by FINRA. Its down 3.54% from 1.26M shares, reported previously. With 122,000 shares average volume, it will take short
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Walking the exhibit halls and attending sessions at the mammoth Consumer Electronics Show, it was easy to identify the dominant theme: AI-enabled Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs). Manufacturers and suppliers of connected cars and homes are betting big on IPAs: overwhelmingly favoring Amazon Alexa. Impressionistically, Google Assistant, Siri, Cortana and others trailed some distance behind. Natural
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[embedded content] Amazon.com, Inc.’s (AMZN) Alexa is on a roll. Based on reports from tech journalists who attended the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week, Alexa was the winner at this year’s event. The chirpy, wise-cracking voice assistant’s technology seems to have permeated a variety of consumer products – from Ford Motor
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Television anchors on San Diego’s CW6 were discussing how a young girl “accidentally” ordered a dollhouse and four pounds of cookies by talking to Amazon’s Alexa when one of the anchors said “I love the little girl, saying ‘Alexa ordered me a dollhouse.” Oops. From CW6 San Diego: As soon as (anchor Jim) Patton said
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Amazon Alexa, a personal assistant Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) added to its Echo smart speaker, recently delivered a big surprise to parents of a six-year-old girl in Dallas, Texas. According to a report Fox News (via The Verge), a six-year-old asked Alexa, “Can you play dollhouse with me and get me a dollhouse?” The voice assistant
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