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Voice activated shopping partnership between Amazon and Ocado

Voice activated shopping partnership between Amazon and Ocado Hot on the heels of Google and Walmart voice activated shopping partnership, Amazon and Ocado also announce their partnership. Ocado has launched an app using the artificial-intelligent Alexa voice assistant. Ocado is the first UK supermarket to partner with Amazon to offer …

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Google and Walmart go shopping

Google and Walmart go shopping. Walmart and Google are joining forces using voice enabled shopping technology to take on Amazon’s dominance in voice activated shopping. From next month US shoppers will be able to buy Walmart goods using Google Assistant. Amazon dominate online retail and now use their voice technology …

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Artificial intelligence based voice shopping

Artificial intelligence based voice shopping. Voice activated and voice recognition software has moved on at a remarkable speed. I remember my first introduction to this technology when I used a product called, ‘Dragon NaturallySpeaking’. Back then it consisted of a headset, microphone, training CD and software.  It was designed to …

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Just how much bigger can these corporations get?

Just how much bigger can these corporations get? I have been looking through some big US company results recently?  It led me to wonder just how BIG can these corporations get? Are they too big? Are they providing a subjective and unbiased service to the customer? As these businesses become …

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Google shop record fine

Google shop record fine. It’s no secret Google has been fined 2.42 billion euros ($2.7 billion; £2.1 billion) by the European Commission. The commission said Google had abused its power by promoting its own shopping comparison service first at the top of search results. If true – this potentially has …