The company says it will give users the option to enable or decline the hands-free “wake word” feature when they launch the updated app, in addition to allowing them to turn the feature on or off in the Alexa app settings. Default settings and user choice are hot-button issues when it comes to voice assistants, because of potential privacy problems.
The company's long-term business plan and commitment to China is unchanged, Richards told the China Development Forum.
The competition does not worry Zhang. "I'm confident that the unmanned delivery service is an irreversible trend. People must adapt to changes brought by the technology."
The company’s rapidly growing Amazon Web Services business controls one-third of the world’s public cloud computing capacity, more than Microsoft, IBM, and Google combined.
The company's market share in the first half of the year was approximately 22 percent, remaining in first place in the industry, according to the company's report.
The company said it expects to include on its website and app 10,000 such rooms in 1,000 hotels nationwide as soon as possible.
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The company is expected to be valued at 0 billion after going public, Reuters said.
The company plans to have textbooks available for sale or rent through the Google Play store, alongside its other offerings. Students renting a book will have it available for six months, which ends up being a little bit longer than a traditional school semester.
The company's Ping An Cloud platform has been serving Ping An Group's internal subsidiaries across five ecosystems - finance, healthcare, smart cities, real estate and automobiles - since its launch in 2013.
The company is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and its directors control nearly 79 percent of the voting power.