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Advancing connectivity between the Asia-Pacific and North America regions, Facebook is set to build two new subsea cables — Echo and Bifrost — with leading regional and global partners. These subsea cables will connect Singapore, Indonesia, and North America,…
Just like arch-rival Apple, Spotify cares first and foremost about its music streaming service’s number of paying subscribers. Unlike Apple Music, though, the global leader of this thriving industry also welcomes people unwilling to pay for their favorite…
Qualcomm, manufacturer of the popular Snapdragon chips that power billions of devices, is now aiming to dominate another segment of smart products: speakers and displays with voice assistant support. To do that, the company announced today a new family of…
Smart speakers have become a global phenomenon less than five years after the limited release of Amazon’s original Echo, with an estimated installed base of 66 million units in the US alone as of December 2018, and around 100 million devices in use worldwide,…
A week after showcasing Alexa to over 10 thousand local industry members, Amazon has moved to further expand its voice capabilities in Australia, making its latest Echo product available for pre-order. Echo Spot differs to Amazon’s other Echo products in that…
Amazon’s quarterly profit reached a record US$1.86 billion in the three months to December 31, fuelled by millions of new customers to its Prime fast-shipping club. There was also a provisional $789 million boost to its bottom line from the US government’s…
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