Macworld We don’t talk about it much anymore because of the HomePod, but there was a time when Amazon was widely praised for ...

With full-screen ads on its smart displays, Alexa is becoming less like an assistant and more like a sales rep.

In recent weeks, Echo Show owners have started seeing full-screen sponsored placements intrude on Photo Frame mode slideshows ...

Amazon wants Alexa owners to buy more things. That's the clear impetus behind the new Alexa feature announced today at Amazon's Accelerate conference, called Customers Ask Alexa, which lets brands ...

The question, once a whisper, has grown into a buzz: Will Amazon, in its pursuit of advertising dollars and dominance, soon embed ads within its Alexa voice assistant? The company’s recent moves ...

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This weekend I received an email from a reader: “Maybe I’m going nuts, but I’ve had an Amazon Echo for three to four years, and until yesterday it did not feed me any commercials — I’d have noticed.

Amazon is pressing a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that the company wrongly uses voice recordings captured by Alexa to target ads. In papers filed Friday, Amazon argues that the ...

Alexa users are suing Amazon over claims that the voice assistant app is targeting users with ads relevant to private recordings of users’ conversations. The central complaint. The main complaint of ...

In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more. by Lisa Stiffler on Jun 16, 2022 at 1:35 pm June 16, 2022 at 1:36 ...