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Amazon has rolled out Alexa+, the new version of its voice assistant, to more than 100,000 users so far, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Thursday (May 1) during the company’s quarterly earnings call.
Alexa+ will be made available to more users in the coming months, Jassy said. It is now starting to roll out in the U.S. and will be expanded to other countries later this year.
The new version of the...
Apple and Anthropic have reportedly partnered to create a platform that will use artificial intelligence (AI) to write, edit and test code for programmers.
Apple has started rolling out the coding software to its own engineers, Bloomberg reported Friday (May 2). The company hasn’t decided whether to make it available to third-party app developers.
The tool generates code or alterations in...
Temu has reportedly stopped shipping products from China directly to U.S. consumers due to the elimination of the de minimis exemption that had shielded small packages from U.S. tariffs.
“This shift is part of Temu’s ongoing adjustments to improve service levels,” a Temu spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) in a report posted Friday (May 2).
This marks a “dramatic shift” in the company...
For several years, Apple has been leveraging its hardware and services to forge an ecosystem, as phones, tablets and computers are an on-ramp to higher margin subscriptions, streaming and apps.
This week, the company posted earnings that showed headwinds to its top-line growth (to 5% on a consolidated basis). The services businesses grew by 11.6%, to $26.6 billion, outpacing the 2.6% gains seen...
The efforts of third-party sellers on platforms like Amazon to stock up on goods to avoid the cost of tariffs will reportedly work for only a limited time.
Because shoppers are also buying ahead to avoid the impact of tariffs, merchants will eventually sell down their inventory, place new orders, and be faced with the challenge of trying to avoid price increases, Reuters reported Friday (May 2)....
The first publicly traded bitcoin financial services company rang the Nasdaq opening bell on Friday (May 2).
The invitation given to Fold Holdings Inc. is just one signal among many, that, in a span of just a few months, cryptocurrency has entered a new phase of mainstream financial adoption.
And it’s just scratching the surface of a week that also saw the Arizona State Legislature move to the...
Acquired.com joined 30 other organizations in a collective effort to create a new company that will work to establish and serve as a central operator for commercial variable recurring payments in the United Kingdom.
Commercial variable recurring payments are a new payment method that enables customers to authorize third-party providers to initiate payments of varying amounts from their bank...
Spotify said Friday (May 2) that Apple approved a U.S. app update that Spotify submitted Thursday (May 1) after a court ruling in the lawsuit Epic Games brought against Apple.
“After nearly a decade, this will finally allow us to freely show clear pricing information and links to purchase, fostering transparency and choice for U.S. consumers,” Spotify News said in a Friday post on social platform...
The latest jobs data indicate that employers added more positions in April than had been expected, and the news may, incrementally, make consumers feel a bit better about their employment prospects.
But any uptick in sanguine sentiment, at least on the work front, may not translate into confidence to open up one’s wallet.
These readings from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday (May 2) can be...
MoneyGram has launched an application programming interface (API) designed to make it easy for developers to embed crypto on/off-ramp functionality.
With the new MoneyGram Ramps, wallets, exchanges and FinTech apps can enable compliant cash-to-crypto and crypto-to-cash integration through a single implementation, the company said in a Friday (May 2) press release.
“With this launch, MoneyGram is...