Using consumer survey data, Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) reported this week that Apple’s HomePod smart speaker made...

NPR and Edison Research have released a new “smart audio” report. It’s the third installment of research that began in 2017, intended to...

Analyst firm Canalys is projecting that the global smart speaker market will reach 100 million units by the end of 2018. It further...

According to a new quarterly tracking estimate from Canalys, Google shipped more smart speakers in Q1 2018 than Amazon. Globally, the...

Apple’s HomePod is being hailed as the best speaker among the current smart speaker cohort, which includes Google Home, Amazon Echo,...

The battle for the smart home is well underway, triggered by the advent of smart speakers. Apple’s entry, HomePod, will finally be...

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Google is considering bringing its smart home device unit, Nest, back under the Google...

With the recent news that Apple’s HomePod smart speaker wouldn’t ship until next year, the company is missing the critical holiday...

In what is sure to be a model for other publishers, last week Google and Vogue magazine announced a partnership that offers “behind the...

With Prime Day just hours away, both Amazon and Google are hoping to woo shoppers with discounts on their smart speakers — but Amazon’s...

A new survey of more than 2,000 US consumers from Morning Consult finds almost exactly one-third of consumers are either very interested...

As anticipated, Apple introduced its Amazon Echo and Google Home competitor today at WWDC, its developer conference in San Jose. The...

Google Assistant was one of the stars of Wednesday’s keynote at I/O 2017. It’s gained a number of new features and expanded beyond its...

If Amazon had introduced the Echo Show before its original Echo speaker device, it might not have been as successful. It might have been...

Amazon Echo, housing the Alexa intelligent agent According to a new analysis and forecast from eMarketer, Amazon owns 70 percent of the...

Alexander Supertramp / Shutterstock.com In January, Stone Temple Consulting released a virtual assistant consumer survey showing the...

In the battle to compete with Amazon’s Alexa devices, Google Home just introduced something that could be a meaningful differentiator. It...

At a time when risky ads can cause a backlash (e.g., Pepsi), Burger King just did something ingeniously (or annoyingly) calculated to...

If you thought you would avoid April Fools’ Day gags and pranks this year because the actual day falls on a Saturday, think again. C’mon...

Ask Google Home what your day is like today, and it will remind you that Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” is opening. Google says this...