Thursday, November 30, 2017

Amazon Alexa for Business



Amazon is putting Alexa in the office | TechCrunch


"At the AWS reinvent conference, Amazon announced Alexa for Business"

"Alexa for Business is a two-sided project for Amazon. On the one hand, Amazon gets added data and revenue from larger-scale customers and, on the other, enterprise businesses will likely hop on the platform to build APIs and skills for a new breed of customer."



"02:00 your employees solve that pesky printer problem 
  • Alexa, ask the office for more printer paper
  • OK, I've ordered more paper. Should I send your job to the printer 3 
  • Yes that'd be great"



Black Friday pushes Jeff Bezos’ net worth to $100 billion | TechCrunch

"So what’s he going to do with all that money?
Bezos wants suggestions. Over the summer, he tweeted a “Request For Ideas.” He said he wants his “philanthropic activity to be helping people in the here and now- short term- at the intersection of urgent need and lasting impact.”"

Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) | Twitter


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