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When improving the Alexa Skills Kit, "we try to think in terms of the experiences we enable," Nedim Fresko, Amazon's VP of Alexa Devices and Developer Technologies, said to ZDNet, "but also where ...

Amazon announced Thursday that Alexa developers have a couple more options for monetizing their Alexa skills. The company has opened up access to two of its monetization tools for Alexa developers: in ...

The tools will allow patients and medical staff to do audio and video calls between Echo devices and laptops or tablets, route Alexa calls within hospital phone systems and let patients and caregivers ...