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Employees of Amazon India are seen behind a glass
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Amazon to Turn Your Home into a Dressing Room

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 23, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

Atlanta, London- Amazon.com Inc unveiled a new service called Prime Wardrobe, which allows members to try out items without paying for them up front. Customers will be allowed to put three items in the Prime Wardrobe box, including shoes, clothes, and accessories, and...

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The Apple logo at a store in San Francisco’s Union Square. (Eric Risberg/AP)

How Apple May Compete with Amazon’s Echo, Google Home

by Hayley Tsukayama | Jun 5, 2017 | Technology

New York- Speculation over what Apple will do to compete in the home hub market is spinning up ahead of Apple’s annual developers conference this week, where many analysts expect the company to confirm the project. And what will be the Apple home hub’s...

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Apple to Expand Siri to Work with More Apps to Rival Amazon

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 4, 2017 | Technology

Apple’s Siri voice assistant role may be expanded to cover a larger variety of apps as the technology company seeks to fend off competition from Amazon’s Alexa service. Currently, Apple’s Siri works with only six types of app: ride-hailing and sharing; messaging...

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Amazon’s new Echo Show has a touch screen that allows users to make video calls to others who have the device, or an iPhone or Android device with an Alexa app. Credit Amazon

With New Echo Speakers, Amazon Lets You Ask Alexa to Phone Mom

by By Brian X. Chen and Nick Wingfield | May 23, 2017 | Technology

SAN FRANCISCO — With an Amazon Echo speaker today, you can talk to Alexa, the virtual assistant that powers the device, and ask it to play songs, order diapers and even turn on your air-conditioner. Now Amazon wants you to do more than talk to Alexa. It also wants you...

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Letters of Ameen Rihani Now in English

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 28, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

Beirut- The English translation of Lebanese-American writer Ameen Rihani’s letters along with some selections of the letters he had received from authors have been published in New York. The book included letters he wrote to writers like Khalil Mutran, Naoum...