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...group Pryon and founder of Yap, a voice recognition company acquired by Amazon in 2011 to feed into its Alexa and Echo products....
...Getty’s deal with CC Neuberger Principal Holdings II gives it an implied enterprise value to forward adjusted ebitda of about 15 times....
...Key features are compatibility with Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa and Siri and Dolby Atmos and DTS: X support for dynamic three-dimensional audio....
...The China discount, part II I wrote about the China discount a couple of weeks ago. My conclusion then — following experts who understand China a lot better than I do — was incomplete at best....
...He will cite voice search — through devices such as Amazon’s Alexa — as providing consumers an alternative....
...In late April, Hertz owed $135m to the HVF II ABS program “to maintain compliance with its funding ratios.”...
...There may yet be second and third waves of the pandemic, which pose the very real risk that sovereign debt could reach World War II levels before we know it....
...“In the case of war, this continues a bumpy decline in the rate of deaths from war that began after World War II....
...The best hot-towel-effect shave a man can getMen’s wet razors entered an arms race when, in 1971, Gillette introduced the twin-blade Trac II. Three‑ and five-blade razors followed in more recent times....
...“The enterprise world is looking to offer the same level of experiences to their workers that they are getting in their private lives,” said Werner Vogels, Amazon’s chief technology officer....
...For Amazon, partnerships with hospitality groups present an opportunity to expand beyond Alexa’s stronghold in the home into enterprise services, while further entrenching it as the default voice platform...
...Moreover, by being platform agnostic — a Sonos user can run Spotify or Alexa — it can appeal to a wider audience....
...By the time of IBM’s iconic “solutions for a small planet” ad campaign in 1996, the company was trumpeting voice recognition and ecommerce — producing the sort of digital enterprise backbone that ended up...
...All of these stocks had proven growth records, continual increases in dividends (virtually none had cut its dividend since World War II), and high market capitalization....
...Robert Bork, the judge and legal theorist who pioneered this in 1978, dubbed it “the antitrust paradox” — large enterprises can be good for economic efficiency....
...Passengers can only retrieve simple information, such as checking an itinerary or booking a car, from the Expedia voice app on Amazon’s Alexa....
...MTM Enterprises had its own uneasy relationships....
...Ford is letting Amazon put Alexa, the artificial intelligence software that powers its Echo home assistant, into Ford cars. The impact is also clear in retailing....
...The combined company will be the world’s largest enterprise security business by revenues....
...The Amazon Tap ($130) is a portable speaker through which you can talk to Alexa by pressing a button....
...The company ranks as the 104th most visited site in the US, according to data from Alexa, the web analytics provider....
...Following the determination of the Final Common Share Count, it was determined that TIBCO’s implied enterprise value in the merger was approximately $4.2 billion and not $4.3 billion as reported in the press...
...Commercial space enterprises, it seems, would prefer it if sovereign states became dependent on private enterprise instead – the surest way of exposing Earth to the risk of a megalomaniac that wants to rename...
...In one sense, we have the worst of both worlds: octopus-like oversight of banks which are becoming more like regulated utilities, but which still see themselves as profit-seeking enterprises....
...(The illustrative enterprise value is simply calculated by applying an Enterprise Value/EBITDA multiple to the pro forma EBITDA, including synergies.)...
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