“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...
“The future of payments is in the voice,” MPD CEO Karen Webster wrote on April 28 when the 2016 PYMNTS/Alexa Challenge was first introduced. And the future is getting increasingly closer thanks to the number of developers across the payments and commerce ecosystem looking to use...
“Open Sesame” was the magical phrase that a poor mythical woodcutter named Ali Baba uttered to open the door of a secret cave in which 40 thieves had hidden bags of gold. The power of his voice, and using the right words, gave him access...
June 30, 2016
Linking arms with traditional financial services providers may not be top of mind for many millennials, but could the power of voice-activated commerce change the narrative? Doug Brown, SVP and Group Executive at FIS Mobile, joined Karen Webster to chat about how Amazon’s Alexa can help banks serve the most coveted and demanding consumer segment of all.
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...
