Lindo St. Angel, VP of hardware at Amazon's Lab126 R&D unit since 2010, plans to leave on October 31; he helped develop the Echo, Astro robot, and Fire tablet
A fifteen-year veteran of Amazon's devices division who had a hand in developing many of the most recognizable gadgets …
Sources: Amazon is hiring Microsoft's former CPO Panos Panay to run the Alexa and Echo unit; longtime hardware chief Dave Limp said in August he is retiring
it's a little hard to imagine Surface, especially, without Panos Panay. I was also unaware that Charles Simonyi was still involved with Microsoft. https://www.theverge.com/... X: Patrick Moorhead / @...
Amazon Devices & Services SVP David Limp, who oversees Alexa, Echo, and other products, plans to leave the company later in 2023; a successor hasn't been named
David Limp's retirement will be latest departure from e-commerce giant's leadership under CEO Andy Jassy
Report: Amazon's hardware group is on track to lose $10B in 2022, as many Echo devices are sold at cost and plans to monetize Alexa have failed
Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company's biggest money loser. — Amazon is going through the biggest layoffs …
Interviews with more than a dozen designers, many of whom worked with Jeff Bezos, about his failed attempt to make Amazon a “cool” brand like Apple and Nike
Amazon can squeeze a lot into a box. — Jared Ficklin was part of a secret team at a prominent design firm tapped … Tweets: @harrymccracken , @fastcodesign , @fastcodesign , @fastcodesign , @fastcode...
Amazon says it has more than 10,000 employees working on its Alexa virtual assistant and Echo devices, up from 5,000 in September 2017
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal :
Amazon now has 5,000 people working on Alexa and Echo, up from 1,000 in May 2016; the company's job site lists an additional 1,500 related openings
- Amazon's hardware chief said more than 5,000 employees now work on the Alexa voice technology platform.
Mike George, Amazon VP who oversaw Alexa and Echo, is retiring after nearly two decades with the company; he will be replaced by Tom Taylor, SVP Amazon Payments
developers could be listening Brandy Betz / Seeking Alpha : GeekWire: Amazon SVP of Alexa and Echo retires Barb Darrow / Fortune : Amazon Echo Exec Retires After Nearly 20 Years Chantel McGee / CNBC :...
Mike George, Amazon VP who oversaw Alexa and Echo, is retiring after nearly two decades with the company; he will be replaced by Tom Taylor, SVP Amazon Payments
Mike George, the Amazon vice president who oversaw two of the company's most successful products — the Alexa virtual assistant …
Interview with Jeff Bezos and Steve Boom, VP of Amazon Music, about the music industry, Echo and Alexa's place in it, more
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