Now worth $2.5 billion as of Amazon’s third-quarter earnings in October, an increase of 123 percent, Amazon advertising’s growth has turned the company into a soon-to-be rival of the duopoly, Google and Facebook. According to eMarketer, advertisers are forecasted to spend $4.6 billion on Amazon’s platform this year, which would give it 7 percent of market share. That’s a sliver compared to the market share of Google, at 37 percent, and Facebook, at 20 percent, but Amazon’s business is growing at a much faster rate. via @Digiday
Via @businessinsider Amazon is developing Alexa as your in-home health concierge — here’s how the other Big Four tech companies are shaking up the healthcare industry
ICMYI – this is a crazy read: Stolen identities, ominous threats, intricately coordinated hijackings, and the people who are just trying to understand the rules of a lawless land. This isn’t the Wild West. It’s Amazon’s Seller Marketplace, where customers buy things like tents and novelty socks and other tchotchkes.
Via @bmetrockIf you’re a content creator of any kind–creating books or audiobooks, podcasts, articles, magazines, videos, you name it–you’re eventually going to have to bring that content into the realm of Amazon’s Alexa. Here are two tools to help beginners build their skills.
Walmart was granted a patent this week for a new listening system for its retail stores that, if ever deployed, may make some employees and shoppers uncomfortable. According to the filing and claims, it’s “an example system for capturing and analyzing sounds in a shopping facility.” In other words, it’s kind of surveillance system. via @Verge
Artificial intelligence is without question one of the most captivating and influential corners of the technology world today, but it’s also one of the noisiest. via @VentureBeat
ICYMI An unspecified malware strain from out of the country has attacked Tribune Publishing’s network, delaying the release of Saturday editions of at least some of its papers (including the LA Times, San Diego Union Tribune and South Florida Sun Sentinel) as well as West Coast versions of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, both of which are printed at the LA Times’ Los Angeles plant. It was particularly severe for San Diego residents – between 85 to 90 percent of Saturday papers didn’t reach customers. Teams had tried to quarantine the malware, but it apparently “reinfected” systems linked to news production and printing. Via @engadget
Quad/Graphics, LSC face $1.5 billion sales decline by 2022 without merger, additional actions
The planned combination of Quad/Graphics Inc. and LSC Communications Inc. would create a company with around $8 billion in annual revenue, but if the two printers continued on their own they both face sales declines of 17 to 21 percent by 2022, according to Quad/Graphics estimates. via @BizTimesMedia
Proud of my company, Penguin Random House: RT @BklynEagle The Legal Aid Society announced on Thursday a new campaign alongside book publisher Penguin Random House called “Let Them Read,” which will bring books into courtroom for kids to read while they wait for their cases to start.
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