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Google Kills Its Google Home Max Smart Speaker Line
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - 3:29am | 430Alphabet, Inc's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) most expensive smart speaker, Google Home Max, is discontinued, the Verge reports. What Happened: The Home Max speakers are sold out on the Google store, and the company confirmed to The Verge that it is removing the three-...
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Citron Research Makes The Case For Apple Acquiring Sonos: 'Undisputed Leader'
Monday, June 22, 2020 - 11:30am | 565The case for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) acquiring smart speaker maker Sonos Inc (NASDAQ: SONOS) is simple: "home is the new sanctuary," according to Citron Research's Andrew Left. Shades Of Apple: The most recent homebuilder sentiment data showed the largest monthly surge in history,...
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Amazon's New Echo Studio Starts At $199; Sonos Shares Respond Negatively
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - 1:13pm | 249Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) rolled out the Echo Studio speaker at its annual hardware showcase Wednesday, with prices starting at $199. Sonos (NASDAQ: SONO) shares fell by 2.8% on the news. The Verge, which is reporting live from the event, said the Echo Studio is the latest entry to...
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Analyst: Google Assistant Could Boost Sonos Speaker Sales
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 - 12:22pm | 375“Hey Google, should I buy Sonos Inc. (NASDAQ: SONO)?” Google Assistant can now answer questions through the Sonos One and Beam Speakers. And those people who don’t have Sonos speakers may buy one because of the new Google function, DA Davidson said Wednesday. The Analyst DA...
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Careful What You Say Around Alexa: Someone Might Be Listening
Thursday, April 11, 2019 - 9:25am | 490Is someone listening to your private conversations? Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has thousands of people on its payroll whose job it is to listen to voice recordings that its Echo devices pick up, according to a Wednesday Bloomberg report. What Happened Bloomberg, citing multiple...
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Survey: Smart Speakers Quickly Becoming Ubiquitous In American Households
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 - 9:39am | 503Smart speakers have become integral to U.S. households in a big way. The adoption rate of the devices increased from 21.5 percent in 2017 to 41 percent in 2018, TechCrunch reported, citing RBC Capital Markets. Smart speakers had a great holiday quarter, according to new research by Consumer...
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JPMorgan Says Apple Should Go After Netflix, Sonos Or Activision
Monday, February 4, 2019 - 11:58am | 503What should Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) do with its cash hoard of nearly $250 billion? According to JPMorgan's Samik Chatterjee, the iPhone maker should put some or most of that cash to use to acquire one of three companies. What Happened Apple has enough cash on hand to outright buy Netflix, Inc...
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Cramer Compares Sonos IPO To Fitbit: 'Way Too Risky'
Thursday, August 9, 2018 - 8:56am | 426Fitness tracker and smart watch maker Fitbit Inc (NYSE: FIT) saw its stock initially move higher after its 2015 initial public offering, but has since fallen out of favor with investors — and the same may happen with newly public smart speaker maker Sonos Inc (NASDAQ: SONO), according to...
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Sonos Debuts On The Nasdaq
Thursday, August 2, 2018 - 12:45pm | 508Sonos, Inc. (NASDAQ: SONO), a creator of wireless home sound systems, priced its initial public offering at $15 per share and the stock opened for trading at $16. Here's what investors need to know about the newly public company. What Happened Consumers and investors for the most part...
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6 Companies That Benefit From The Growing Smart Speaker Market
Monday, March 12, 2018 - 10:46am | 1026The smart speaker is a tech innovation that's caught fire with consumers, according to the "Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report 2018" released by Voicebot.ai in collaboration with PullString and the RAIN Agency. The findings are based on an in-depth national survey of 1,057 U...
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The Top Reason Some Won't Buy A Smart Speaker: Price, Not Privacy
Saturday, October 21, 2017 - 5:50pm | 468Privacy concerns are often considered to be the biggest reason against owning a smart speaker like Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s Echo or Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s Google Home. After all, the devices are always listening, and tech giants are notorious for gathering as much...
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What's Trending In Emerging Tech: 4K TVs, Smart Speakers Smash Hits; Wearables Struggle
Saturday, August 19, 2017 - 8:49am | 572Technological innovations today transcend the wildest of all imagination. Breakthrough products such as smartphones engendered by science and technology have now become sine qua non for all demographics, so much so that people look lost and forlorn when separated from them even for the smallest of...