Tag: smart speakers

Anghami and Amazon Music could be future rivals in the Middle East and North Africa, if Amazon launches its streaming services in the region.

Bloomberg has reported that the company has hired Afrooz Family to "lead software efforts... aiming to turn the product into a bigger hit".

Jooki is releasing a brand new speaker: Jooki Generation 2. It still uses the ‘ToyTouch’ technology as an interface, but with new features.

Omdia estimates Google shipped nearly 4.2m smart speakers in Q2 compared to Amazon’s 3.4m, which it pegs as 47.8% growth and 31.3% decline year-on-year.

Big things are afoot with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant: more than 50 new features unveiled yesterday at a conference for Alexa developers. There is a full roundup here on Amazon’s developer blog, but among...

Among various competition inquiries touching on the music industry, the European Commission’s investigation of consumer Internet of Things related products and services has been somewhat under the radar. It’s important...

Syng is the startup co-founded by Christopher Stringer, formerly a key member of Apple’s design team. We’ve been tracking its path towards launch since May 2020, including its hire of former UMG, Vevo and Magic Leap...

It was only yesterday that we were writing about children’s speaker startup Yoto launching an exclusive set of music albums. Now it has some funding news too. The British company has raised a $17m funding round from investment...

We covered British startup Yoto when it launched in 2017. Founded by former 7digital boss Ben Drury, it was a speaker for children, minus the privacy worries of smart speakers for grown-ups, but stocked with music, stories...

You don't need Siri to answer that question, Music Ally is here as your friendly voice (well, text) assistant to say yes. Yes it does. Deezer announced yesterday that its service now works nicely with Apple's HomePod and...

Last month, we teamed up with the BPI to hold an event called 10x10: Trends for Music's Next Decade. It featured 10 presentations from industry figures about trends they felt would be important for the next decade of music. Now...

Spotify has been working on its 'Car Thing' smart speaker for some time now. The streaming service first talked about it in May 2019, when it began testing the in-car device with some American users. A recent filing with...