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The First Alexa Skills to Enable on Your New Amazon Echo. So, you bought an Amazon Echo during Prime Day, but you’re not sure what to do with it other than ask it silly questions, set timers, and roll a dice. Before you return it, know there’s a whole bunch else you can do with that smart speaker.

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The Echo currently has more than 3,0. Amazon. But since writing a guide for all its talents would probably be longer than a Nicholas Sparks novel, here is a quick list of the best, practical skills you should start using right away.

Amazon’s trying to kill your controller with a new Alexa skill designed to make watching TV super…Read more Read. Get your daily morning news briefing. One of my favorite Alexa skills is the morning news briefing, since I get to lie in bed or prepare breakfast while getting the news read to me. Just ask, “Alexa, read me the news” and Alexa will let you know what’s going on in this crazy world, courtesy of NPR. She’ll even finish the briefing with a weather update. You can customize your flash briefing in the Alexa mobile app. Or, install the Guardian skill and ask Alexa to read you headlines and even full articles.

Work out with Alexa. Sometimes it’s hard to go to the gym when you have such a busy schedule, but Alexa can help you fit in a quick workout in the morning. Just say, “Alexa, start 7- minute workout,” and the AI will guide you through a series of workout repetitions that will surely make you sweat. If you don’t know what the workout looks like, you can just look them up on your phone and follow along. Amazon’s beefing up some basic features in Alexa, its voice- controlled assistant.

Your favorite…Read more Read. Control your lights. This skill is one of the most basic and known, but also one of the most convenient—or maybe I’m just lazy. But if own Philips Hue Lights, you can ask Alexa to turn them on/off without having to get up from your bed or couch. It’s ideal for when you’re going to bed, or already sat down at your couch with the popcorn and about to watch a movie. Change the wake word. If having “Alexa” as the wake word—the word that triggers the voice assistant—is causing to much trouble because someone in the house is named Alex or Alexis, you can change it to something less common.

You can change the wake word to Amazon, Echo, or Computer. Sure, the options are limited right now, but hopefully Amazon lets us change it to whatever we want in a near future. I would love to call mine Jarvis, like Iron Man. The future you’ve been waiting for has arrived. Amazon has added a new accepted wake word to…Read more Read. Find your smartphone.

Are you the type of person who constantly loses their phone around the house? Well, Alexa has a neat skill to help you find it. If you sign up for a Track. R account, you can just ask, “Alexa, find my phone,” and the smart speaker will make sure your smartphone rings at full volume—and guess what? It was probably under the couch cushion again. Check airport security wait times before you leave the house. Watch The Suite Life Movie Putlocker#.

Plan better and avoid long lines the day you travel. Just say, “Alexa, ask airport security for the wait time at La Guardia (or whichever airport),” and the AI will check the TSA’s public API for the last reported wait times at the airport checkpoint. If you’re a last minute planner when traveling, this trick will help you a lot while your packing in a rush the morning of your flight. We’ve previously covered how cool automatic blinds are.

And we know the Amazon Echo is pretty…Read more Read. Set Spotify as the default music streaming service.

Amazon announced last year that it would add a Spotify skill to Alexa’s catalog, but in order to have it work properly consumer has to say, “Alexa, play Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen On Spotify.” If you didn’t specify Spotify, Alexa would try and find the song on Amazon Music, which has a very limited song catalog. However, there’s a way to make Spotify the default so when you ask to play a song, it’ll automatically fetch the media from the select streaming service. Open the Alexa App and under Settings go into Music & Media. Once there, just select Spotify as the default music service and save your changes. For whatever reason, controlling blinds in a smart home has always been a bit of a holy grail for…Read more Read.

Get exclusive deals through Alexa. If you’re looking for a new way of shopping, all you have to do is ask, “Alexa, what are your deals?” and the smart speaker will recite a list of Prime- member- exclusive deals. If you have Alexa synced with your Prime membership and your payment method of choice, you can just Alexa to place an order for you. Add a code to avoid accidental purchases. Since Alexa is very easy to trigger with language that resembles her name, you might sometimes end up accidentally making an unwanted purchase. However, there is a way to prevent an unintended purchase from Alexa by setting up a 4- digit voice shopping code through the corresponding app.

To input a code go to the Alexa app’s Settings and choose Voice Purchasing, then just input your code and select Save Changes. Learn more skills.

You can also discover more Alexa skills by using the Skill Finder. All you have to say is, “Alexa, tell Skill Finder to give me the skill of the day” and you will unearth new, cool skills. You can also learn about new talents by category by asking, “Alexa, tell Skill Finder to list the top skills in the games category.”.

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Headquarters. 10. Winchester Circle, Los Gatos, California, United States. Area served. 19. 0 countries[2]Owner. Reed Hastings (1. Founder(s)Key people. Industry. Entertainment.

Products. Services. Revenue. US$8. 8. Operating income. US$3. 80 million (2. Net income. US$1. Total assets. US$1. Total equity. US$2.

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Active. Netflix is an American entertainment company founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph on August 2. Scotts Valley, California.[7] It specializes in and providesstreaming media and video- on- demand online and DVD by mail. In 2. 01. 3, Netflix expanded into film and television production, as well as online distribution. As of 2. 01. 7, the company has its headquarters in Los Gatos, California. Netflix's initial business model included DVD sales and rental, although Hastings jettisoned DVD sales about a year after Netflix's founding to focus on the DVD rental by mail business.[7][8] In 2. Netflix expanded its business with the introduction of streaming media, while retaining the DVD and Blu- ray rental service. The company expanded internationally, with streaming made available to Canada in 2.

January 2. 01. 6, Netflix services operated in over 1. Netflix entered the content- production industry in 2. House of Cards. It has greatly expanded the production of both film and television series since then, offering "Netflix Original" content through its online library of films and television.[1. Netflix released an estimated 1. As of October 2. 01. Netflix had 1. 09. United States.[6] Their efforts to produce new content, secure the rights for additional content, and diversify through 1.

September, 2. 01. Netflix's headquarters are in 1. Winchester Circle, Los Gatos, California, USA. They also have other offices in the Netherlands, Brazil, India, Japan and Korea.[1.

History[edit]Founding and establishment[edit]Netflix was founded on August 2. Scotts Valley, California, by Marc Randolph[1.

Reed Hastings. Randolph worked as marketing director for Hastings' company, Pure Atria Corporation. Randolph was a co- founder of Micro. Warehouse, a computer mail order company, and was later employed by Borland International as vice president of marketing. Hastings, a computer scientist and mathematician, sold Pure Atria to Rational Software Corporation in 1.

Silicon Valley history. He and Randolph came up with the idea for Netflix while commuting between their homes in Santa Cruz and Pure Atria's headquarters in Sunnyvale while waiting for government regulators to approve the merger.[1. Hastings invested $2. Netflix.[1. 8][8] Randolph admired the fledgling e- commerce company Amazon and wanted to find a large category of portable items to sell over the internet using a similar model.

He and Hastings considered and rejected VHS tapes as too expensive to stock and too delicate to ship. When they heard about DVDs, which were available in only a few markets in 1.

DVDs by mail by mailing a compact disc to Hastings' house in Santa Cruz. When the disc arrived intact, they decided to take on the $1.

Hastings is often quoted saying that he decided to start Netflix after being fined $4. Blockbuster store for being late to return a copy of Apollo 1. Randolph designed to explain the company's business model and motivation.[1.

Netflix was launched on April 1. DVDs available through the pay- per- rent model with rates and due dates that were similar to its bricks- and- mortar rival, Blockbuster.[1. Membership fee, Blockbuster acquisition offer, growth start[edit]Netflix introduced the monthly subscription concept in September 1. Since that time, the company has built its reputation on the business model of flat- fee unlimited rentals without due dates, late fees, shipping and handling fees, or per- title rental fees.[2.

First logo, used from 1. Netflix logo used from 2. In 2. 00. 0, Netflix offered to be acquired by Blockbuster for $5. Netflix initiated an initial public offering (IPO) on May 2. US$1. 5. 0. 0 per share. On June 1. 4, 2. 00.

After incurring substantial losses during its first few years, Netflix posted its first profit during fiscal year 2. US$6. 5 million profit on revenues of US$2. In 2. 00. 5, 3. 5,0. Netflix shipped 1 million DVDs out every day.[2.

Randolph, a dominant producer and board member for Netflix, retired from the company in 2. Video on demand introduction, declining DVD sales, global expansion[edit]Netflix developed and maintains an extensive personalized video- recommendation system based on ratings and reviews by its customers. On October 1, 2. 00. Netflix offered a $1,0. Cinematch, at predicting customer ratings by more than 1. In February 2. 00. DVD,[2. 6] and began to move away from its original core business model of DVDs, by introducing video on demand via the Internet.

Netflix grew as DVD sales fell from 2. In January 2. 01. Netflix reported that it had added two million United States customers during the fourth quarter of 2. United States streaming customers, and 2. In addition, revenue was up 8% to $9.

That number increased to 3. United States) in April 2. As of September 2. Netflix reported its total of global streaming subscribers at 4.

United States).[3. By the fourth quarter of 2. Netflix reported 3.

United States subscribers.[3. By September 2. 01. Netflix had subscribers in over 4. Early Netflix Original content[edit]Netflix has played a prominent role in independent film distribution. Through its division Red Envelope Entertainment, Netflix licensed and distributed independent films such as Born into Brothels and Sherrybaby. As of late 2. 00.

Red Envelope Entertainment also expanded into producing original content with filmmakers such as John Waters.[3. Netflix closed Red Envelope Entertainment in 2. Entertainment dominance and presence and continued growth[edit]Netflix has been one of the most successful dot- com ventures. In September 2. 00. The New York Times reported that, at the time, Netflix mailed about 1. The company's published subscriber count increased from one million in the fourth quarter of 2. March 2. 01. 0. Netflix's early growth was fueled by the fast spread of DVD players in households; in 2.

United States homes had a DVD player. Netflix capitalized on the success of the DVD and its rapid expansion into United States homes, integrating the potential of the Internet and e- commerce to provide services and catalogs that bricks- and- mortar retailers could not compete with.

Netflix also operates an online affiliate program which has helped to build online sales for DVD rentals. The company offers unlimited vacation time for salaried workers and allows employees to take any amount of their paychecks in stock options.[3. By 2. 01. 0, Netflix's streaming business had grown so quickly that within months the company had shifted from the fastest- growing customer of the United States Postal Service's first- class service to the largest source of Internet streaming traffic in North America in the evening. In November, it began offering a standalone streaming service separate from DVD rentals.[4. On September 1. 8, 2.

Netflix announced its intentions to rebrand and restructure its DVD home media rental service as an independent subsidiary called Qwikster, separating DVD rental and streaming services.[4. Andy Rendich, a 1. Netflix veteran, was to be CEO of Qwikster. Qwikster would carry video games whereas Netflix did not.[4. However, in October 2. Netflix announced that it would retain its DVD service under the name Netflix and would not, in fact, create Qwikster for that purpose.[4.

In April 2. 01. 1, Netflix had over 2. United States and over 2. But on October 2.