Alexa Totally Gets It, Opens Up API
John Battelle has the scoop – Alexa is making its dataI available on the Amazon.com Web Services platform, and it’s a really big deal. Amazon’s Alexa is opening up its 5 billion web documents and 100...
View ArticleExclusive: Alexa Web Search Platform Beta
Amazon have been beta testing their web search platform and we have managed to get a hold of some screenshots as well as some information about it. Alexa is giving users and developers access to their...
View ArticlePhotobucket vs. Flickr in Alexa and Technorati
One of the top stories in the blogosphere today is a new Hitwise chart finding that Photobucket has a 46% leading market share in online photosharing and that Flickr is in 6th place with only 6%. This...
View ArticleAlexa Overhauls Ranking System
Everyone’s favorite web statistics whipping boy Alexa has announced a major overhaul of how it compiles traffic figures. The biggest change is Alexa’s decision to drop exclusive reliance on the Alexa...
View ArticleAmazon Shutters Unpopular Alexa Site Thumbnail Service
Amazon Web Services is discontinuing the Alexa Site Thumbnail service, which has been providing developers with programmatic access to millions of thumbnail images for the home pages of web sites that...
View ArticleJason Calacanis Punches Comscore In The Face. Comscore Punches Back. Fred...
Jason Calacanis, our partner over the years on the TechCrunch50 conference, wrote quite a rant yesterday about analytics company Comscore. His argument: that Comscore has vastly undercounted traffic...
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If You Cite Compete Or Alexa For Anything Besides Making Fun Of Them, You're...
Earlier today, I was checking out some new questions in the TechCrunch topic area on Quora. One in particular caught my eye: How was TechCrunch traffic affected by their major redesign in July 2011?...
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SimilarGroup Raises $2.5 Million To Take On Alexa's (Often Terrible) Web...
Tel Aviv-based SimilarGroup, a company whose recently launched web measurement tool SimilarWeb is out to topple Alexa’s stronghold in web rankings, is today announcing $2.5 million in new funding. The...
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Amazon Unbundles Alexa Virtual Assistant From Echo With New Dev Tools
Amazon has provided a strong answer to a desire I expressed only yesterday for broader software and hardware support for Alexa, its virtual assistant, and Echo, the speaker hardware that is the first...
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Amazon’s Other App Store, Alexa’s “Skills” Section, Has Quietly Grown To Over...
Amazon has been quietly building out an ecosystem of applications for its connected device, the Amazon Echo. While nowhere near as well-known or buzzed about as the two top app stores on the market...
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Amazon Moves Appstore VP To Alexa’s App Store, Readies Echo Super Bowl Ad
Amazon is clearly doubling down on its Alexa-powered connected speaker Echo, and the Alexa ecosystem as a whole – and not just because it’s now shelling out the big bucks to advertise the product...
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Amazon Echo Can Now Order Your Pizza
In case you needed another reason to buy Amazon’s Internet-connected speaker, the Amazon Echo: the device can now order pizza for you, following your verbal command. Have all my dreams come true? Yes....
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Amazon adds the $130 Tap and the $90 Dot to the Echo family
Amazon’s voice-operated command center Echo produces something close to modern-day magic within our homes: Get the latest news, order a pizza, turn off the lights or find out who killed Bruce Wayne’s...
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Want an Echo Dot? Here’s how to bypass Amazon’s restrictions and order one today
Amazon is making it difficult to pre-order the $90 Echo Dot. But there’s still a way, and it’s really easy to nab your place in line for the new mini Echo. Better hurry, though. Amazon could close...
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Amazon Alexa can now pay your Capital One bill
Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa, embedded in devices like the Echo speaker and Fire TV, is today taking on a new role: she’s now a banking assistant, too. Capital One announced this morning the...
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Fitbit taps Amazon Echo to let users check their fitness progress via voice
Amazon and Fitbit are teaming up to make it even easier to see your daily fitness progress. Or rather, hear about it. Fitbit users who own an Amazon Echo can now ask Alexa about their progress...
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Amazon Echo VP Mike George to talk about Alexa at Disrupt New York
Amazon Echo is becoming a surprisingly good product. With countless of integrations, you can now control many things using your voice. It’s now possible to order pizza, play something on Spotify and...
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Amazon improves Alexa Voice Services, which lets developers add Alexa’s voice...
Last year, Amazon announced a set of tools that allowed third-party developers to integrate its virtual assistant Alexa, which today powers devices like the Echo speaker and Fire TV, into their own...
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Amazon Alexa is now available on first device not made by Amazon
Amazon is spreading the Alexa love. The voice service is now available on the Triby. This small, family-focused message board, internet radio and VoIP device is the first device available for purchase...
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Amazon poaches AI guru from Xerox PARC to work on Alexa virtual assistant
Amazon has hired Xerox PARC employee and artificial intelligence (AI) researcher Ashwin Ram to head up AI R&D for Alexa, the e-commerce behemoth’s virtual assistant. Ram first tweeted about his...
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