smart speakers

Amazon.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...

“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...

Is 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...

Smart 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...

What 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...

Fitness 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...

Sonos, 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...

The 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...

Privacy 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...

Technological 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...