Echo

Retail Asia30/03/2021

Advancing connectivity between the Asia-Pacific and North America regions, Facebook is set to build two new subsea cables — Echo and Bifrost — with leading regional and global partners. These subsea cables will connect Singapore, Indonesia, and North America, making it the first transpacific cables through a new diverse route crossing the Java Sea. Moreover, […]

Retail Asia29/11/2019

Just like arch-rival Apple, Spotify cares first and foremost about its music streaming service’s number of paying subscribers. Unlike Apple Music, though, the global leader of this thriving industry also welcomes people unwilling to pay for their favorite tunes, allowing them to listen to songs they might enjoy with ads, no offline support, and shuffle-only […]

Retail Asia25/03/2019

Qualcomm, manufacturer of the popular Snapdragon chips that power billions of devices, is now aiming to dominate another segment of smart products: speakers and displays with voice assistant support. To do that, the company announced today a new family of chips called the QCD400 Series Smart Audio SoCs. The new chips are designed specifically for the […]

Retail Asia21/03/2019

Smart speakers have become a global phenomenon less than five years after the limited release of Amazon’s original Echo, with an estimated installed base of 66 million units in the US alone as of December 2018, and around 100 million devices in use worldwide, according to a slightly older market report. Naturally, there are now […]

Retail Asia19/04/2018

A week after showcasing Alexa to over 10 thousand local industry members, Amazon has moved to further expand its voice capabilities in Australia, making its latest Echo product available for pre-order. Echo Spot differs to Amazon’s other Echo products in that it has a small screen, enabling the voice assistant to display corresponding graphics to its […]

Retail Asia06/02/2018

Amazon’s quarterly profit reached a record US$1.86 billion in the three months to December 31, fuelled by millions of new customers to its Prime fast-shipping club. There was also a provisional $789 million boost to its bottom line from the US government’s tax bill which was passed in December. “This was another blow-out quarter for […]

Tag: Echo

Facebook’s First transpacific subsea cable Echo and Bifrost

Spotify joins forces with Amazon and Bose

Qualcomm’s new line of chips will make smart speakers better than ever

Amazon’s first-gen Echo well priced for Launch

Amazon Australia unveils new Echo product

Amazon posts largest profit in its history on sales