Alexa skills available to U.S. users officially surpassed ten thousand today and stand at 10,016. The current count for the UK remains just over four thousand but Germans still have fewer than one thousand skills as their disposal.
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GrubHub customers can now order food through Amazon Alexa with the company’s new skill. However, the choices are limited to the past three meals that have been delivered.
Anheuser-Busch launched a new Amazon Alexa skill for its Michelob ULTRA brand called Ultra 95.
Devpost, an online community for developers, is hosting a new hackathon specifically for Amazon Alexa skills.
Amazon’s Alexa is marketed as a B2C device and has very few business-focused skills as a result.
A new Alexa skill developed by Virgin holidays turns Alexa into your personal travel agent.
VentureBeat’s Khari Johnson made a pretty strong argument in late December that Amazon and Microsoft were the winners of the 2016 chat wars. However, I think he is using the wrong lens for evaluation.
Just one week ago, Voicebot was the first to report that Amazon had passed the nine thousand skill mark. However, we noted an interesting anomaly.