Amazon Dashes to the On-Demand Economy
Sometimes change wears an awkward smile. When Amazon launched Dash buttons for instant re-ordering of products in 2015, the idea seemed so goofy that some considered the announcement to be an April...
View ArticleWhy AI Is the Future of Music
The music industry finally has some reason to celebrate, thanks to artificial intelligence. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently announced that music revenues in 2016 grew 11.4...
View ArticleLet Us Now Praise Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos is the Abraham Lincoln of the business world: he doesn’t let critics stop him from making history. The success of the Amazon Echo encapsulates his resiliency perfectly. eMarketer recently...
View ArticleJeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg Want to Change How We Live
Recently Amazon and Facebook announced new products that will extend their reach into the corporate world: Amazon’s Alexa for Business, unveiled November 30, is a platform for a business’s employees to...
View ArticleAmazon: One Industry to Rule Them All?
For once, Amazon is playing catch-up. The great disruptor is just another player in the entertainment space. Amazon Studios, its TV and movie arm, is still looking for a blockbuster like Game of...
View ArticleBoom! Amazon Makes Voice a Whole Lot Bigger
Amazon just extended its influence on how everyday people live. Today Amazon announced the launch of Alexa Blueprints, which makes it possible for anyone to create their own Alexa skills and responses...
View ArticleWhy Amazon Prime May Be the Future of On-Demand Living
Amazon fed investors a smorgasbord of impressive performance statistics in its quarterly earnings announcement April 25 – such as a 43-percent increase in year-over-year revenues and the generation of...
View ArticleVoice Looms Large for Apple and Mary Meeker
Apple and Mary Meeker agree: we’re living in an increasingly voice-first world. But how well is Apple adapting? On May 30, Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist Mary Meeker, one of the most influential...
View ArticleShareable Custom Alexa Skills Bring Us Closer to a Voice-First Future
Amazon continues to create a voice-first future. In April, Amazon launched Alexa Skill Blueprints, which makes it possible for anyone to create their own Alexa skills and responses, with no coding...
View ArticleHow Advertising Helps Amazon Change the World
Amazon is an advertising powerhouse. The company is the third-largest digital advertising platform in the United States and the fifth-largest ad spender. But as CNBC noted in a recent article, Jeff...
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