Amazon launched the Alexa Skills Kit, Alexa Voice Service and the Alexa Fund in June of last year, and as something of an anniversary celebration on Tuesday (June 28) the company unveiled new Alexa features and announced that they have added Lyft and Honeywell to the 1,400...
“Alexa, can you pay by Citibank credit card statement?” This sentence just might be a reality soon. Citigroup’s FinTech unit is reportedly testing how it can use Amazon’s voice-activated assistant, Alexa, and the technology that powers her voice in tandem with its mobile banking app. Beyond that,...
“Alexa, show me who snagged the top spots in the 2016 PYMNTS/Alexa Challenge.” And she did yesterday when the results of the PYMNTS/Alexa Challenge were revealed. During the five-week challenge, 12 teams and 14 companies dug deep into their innovation bags of tricks to use voice to solve...
“Alexa, show me some cool FI, payments and commerce innovations.” Twelve teams and 14 companies are ready to do just that. The 2016 PYMNTS/Alexa Challenge that launched five weeks ago is now complete – and now it is up to you to tell us which...
June 21, 2016
“Alexa, show me who snagged the top spots in the 2016 PYMNTS/Alexa Challenge.” And she did yesterday when the results of the PYMNTS/Alexa Challenge were revealed. During the five-week challenge, 12 teams and 14 companies dug deep into their innovation bags of tricks to use voice to solve everything from the $60 billion annual prescription abandonment problem to […]
June 08, 2016
“Alexa, show me some cool FI, payments and commerce innovations.” Twelve teams and 14 companies are ready to do just that. The 2016 PYMNTS/Alexa Challenge that launched five weeks ago...
October 31, 2016
The global mCommerce market is estimated to register robust growth from 2016 to 2022 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 33.1 percent that period, according to a new report from Research and Markets dubbed “Global M Commerce Market Insights, Opportunity Analysis, Market Shares and Forecast, 2016–2022.” In a press release highlighting the results, […]
June 29, 2016
Amazon launched the Alexa Skills Kit, Alexa Voice Service and the Alexa Fund in June of last year, and as something of an anniversary celebration on Tuesday (June 28) the company...
June 28, 2016
“Alexa, can you pay by Citibank credit card statement?” This sentence just might be a reality soon. Citigroup’s FinTech unit is reportedly testing how it can use Amazon’s voice-activated assistant, Alexa,...
April 01, 2016
It was a year ago that Amazon first released its Amazon Dash Buttons — a move that was received by some as an April Fools’ joke. But sure enough, it...
