Amazon is boosting the hype leading to its Prime Day sale with a few other deals reserved for Echo enthusiasts. If you order items by issuing voice commands to Alexa, you get a neat discount on top of the already lower price.  ( Amazon ) Advertisement Amazon is spicing things up ahead of its big […]

Dive Brief: Amazon is spotlighting its artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant, Alexa, in exclusive deals leading up to its midsummer Prime Day event on July 12. Amazon’s popular Echo, Echo Dot and Amazon Tap devices allow voice ordering via Alexa, and Prime members can get $10 off their first purchase on many transactions over $20 when

Amazon is kicking off its second annual Prime Day early for Echo, Dot and Tap owners. Starting today, and running through Prime Day on July 12, Prime members will receive $10 off their first purchase on any eligible order over $20 when they shop using Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. On Prime Day, more exclusive deals

Dive Brief: Amazon is spotlighting its artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant, Alexa, in exclusive deals leading up to its midsummer Prime Day event on July 12. Amazon’s popular Echo, Echo Dot and Amazon Tap devices allow voice ordering via Alexa, and Prime members can get $10 off their first purchase on many transactions over $20 when

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Amazon’s Echo speakers have a ton of smart capabilities, but until recently, playing music from any service other than Prime Music required telling the device which service to use each time. Now, users may have noticed an option to set Pandora or Spotify as its default music player. If you have one of the Alexa-connected

The folks at Amazon are clearly attempting to entice you into the dangerous world of shopping with voice commands. They’re doing Alexa-exclusive deals for customers who shop through the company’s Echo, Echo Dot and Tap speakers, starting today until July 12th. The team is also adding more items to the list (including gadgets and smart

You can now have your Amazon Echo default to Spotify as your music library or Pandora as your station service instead of Prime Music for either. You might like Amazon’s Echo, and even Amazon Prime, but that doesn’t mean that you’re a fan of all of Amazon’s services. Perhaps you’ve been a big Spotify or

Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo speaker has long been able to pull streaming music from a number of services, but now Amazon is allowing users to set their Spotify account as the default. The new functionality, confirmed by Spotify – one of the streaming options with Echo support – means that no longer do users have to