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Smart Speakers: Google’s Giving Amazon Sleepless Nights

Smart Speakers: Google’s Giving Amazon Sleepless Nights

Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google is eating into Amazon’s (AMZN) share of the smart speaker market, according to a new report. Amazon made an early entrance into the smart speaker business, allowing it to capture the lion’s share of the global smart speaker market at a time when its competitors were still trying to figure out how to venture into the business of building speakers capable of taking and acting on voice instruction.