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2017 was the first year that smart speakers became extremely popular as Christmas and Chanukah gifts. Amazon, who created the category in 2015 with the Amazon Echo, has a huge lead in market share over Google and its Google Home series. This past holiday shopping season saw both Amazon and Google fight over market share by cutting the price on their low-end smart speaker. Combined, both firms have a large lead in smart speaker market share. During the holidays, the Amazon Echo Dot and the Google Home Mini were both priced at $29. Both were about $50 prior to the sale. Amazon's cost to produce the Echo Dot is roughly $31 a unit according to ABI Research. And while it takes only $26 to build the Google Home Mini, the $3 gross profit was eaten up by overhead, shipping and other costs. That means that both Amazon and Google took a little hit to the bottom line, just to try and increase their smart speaker market share. A fight for market share could be bad for Apple, w

Amazon Fire TV boxes now send people to the YouTube website The YouTube app has been removed from Amazon's Fire TV devices four days earlier than expected, as a dispute between Amazon and Google continues. Fire TV devices now encourage people to use the YouTube website in a web browser instead. t:Google had warned it would remove the t:YouTube app from Fire TV devices on 1 January. It said the two companies had not reached an agreement to provide access to each other's services. Earlier in December, Google said: "Amazon doesn't carry Google products like Chromecast and Google Home, doesn't make Prime Video available for Google Cast users, and last month stopped selling some of Nest's latest products. "Given this lack of reciprocity, we are no longer supporting YouTube on Echo Show and Fire TV. We hope we can reach an agreement to resolve these issues soon." On Friday, t:Amazon said in a statement: "You

The row meant YouTube was not accessible via Amazon's Echo Show smart speaker Amazon has started selling Google's Chromecast devices two years after it originally removed them from its store. Amazon said it removed them to end customer confusion about which services were available on which device. Analysts said it was because they let people watch services that competed with Amazon's Prime Video. Google retaliated by blocking access to YouTube on some Amazon gadgets and threatening further restrictions. In September, Google stopped YouTube playing on the Amazon Echo Show. It said it took the step because the way Amazon got the video-sharing service working on the device was "broken". It also threatened to stop Amazon Fire TV sticks getting access to YouTube from January 2018. 'Productive discussions' The search giant said it took the decisions because of a lack of "reciprocity" by Amazon. In response, Amazon criticised Goog

Amazon suggests its smart assistant can be used to order more printer paper among other tasks The Alexa voice assistant has been t:Amazon's remarkable runaway hit this past year. And as competitors such as t:Google and Apple try to catch up in the home, Amazon is pushing into a new market with t:Alexa for Business. Office workers  will be able to use the firm's Echo smart speakers  to set up meetings with colleagues, book conference rooms and other basic tasks. But the critical question isn't whether the technology works, but whether people will trust it in a business setting. "Without a doubt privacy and security is the number one issue," said Geoff Blaber, analyst at t:CCS Insight. "Arguably that’s more important than the functionality." Video conferencing specialist Polycom now allows chats to be triggered by a voice command Companies will undoubtedly be cautious about putting Alexa into meeting rooms and offices where sensitiv