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☆ Amazon devices unit morale wanes amid cuts, weak development pipeline
  + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Greg Bensinger | Thomson Reuters | Greg Bensinger Joined Reuters As A Technology Correspondent In Focusing On The World'S Largest Technology Companies. He Was Previously A Member Of The New York Times Editorial Board | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +8 min
Amazon hopes consumers will install Alexa-enabled devices in more rooms of their homes and become accustomed to using the system throughout the day, the sources said. Amazon has said its devices and services business is not profitable, without providing figures. Amazon is set to name as successor Microsoft's Panos Panay who oversaw development of the Surface, according to Bloomberg. Alexa employees were included in rounds of layoffs beginning last year resulting in 27,000 job cuts across Amazon. For years, Amazon has said it can sell devices for close to production cost and see a profit through services offered on them.
Persons: Jeff Bezos, Dave Limp, Alexa, Kinley Pearsall, Amazon, hasn’t, “, ”, Avi Greengart, Limp, Microsoft's Panos Panay, Gregg Zehr, Tom Taylor, Ken Washington, Andy Jassy, Siri, That’s, Bruno Borges, I‘m, Greg Bensinger, Ken Li, Claudia Parsons Organizations: FRANCISCO, Reuters, Alexa, Amazon, Devices, Google, Microsoft, Echo, “, Bloomberg, Astro, Medtronic, Intelligence, Amazon.com, Lightform, Thomson Locations: Amazon’s, Lab126, Alphabet’s, Vancouver, Canada
☆ Amazon VP in charge of the Astro home robot leaves after less than 2 years, leaked email shows
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Ken Washington, VP of consumer robotics, is leaving Amazon. Amazon's VP of consumer robotics Ken Washington is leaving the company, according to an internal email seen by Insider. At Amazon, he was in charge of the consumer robotics unit, which oversees Astro, the home monitoring robot that remains invite-only 18 months after its launch. Amazon executive Dave Limp AP/Jeff ChiuIn an email to Insider, Amazon's spokesperson confirmed Washington's departure. Amazon's spokesperson told Insider the invite requests for Astro "remain strong" and it plans to add "even more new features."
☆ Amazon's Twitch CEO steps down nearly 10 years after acquisition
  + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Annie Palmer | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Emmett Shear, the CEO of Amazon 's live streaming service Twitch, is stepping down from his role, effective immediately, the company announced Thursday. After buying Twitch, Amazon was largely hands-off with the business, though it has offered Prime subscribers perks on the live streaming platform, like free games and in-game loot. Shear will be replaced by Twitch President Dan Clancy, who has been a "close partner" to Shear, he wrote in a blog post. "Twitch will always remain part of my extended family, a community where I grew in so many ways alongside Twitch itself." Earlier this month, Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff announced he was stepping down from his role at the home security subsidiary.
☆ Amazon is gutting its voice-assistant Alexa. Once founder Jeff Bezos's pet project it's now the primary target of historic layoffs.
  + stars: | 2022-11-19 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +11 min
Amazon's Alexa and the devices team at large is now the prime target of the biggest layoffs in the company's history, according to press reports and an internal email seen by Insider. Instead, Amazon wanted shoppers to buy more things through Echo devices by placing orders through the voice-assistant. Reports of Alexa mistakenly sending voice recordings to the wrong person or Amazon employees secretly listening to private conversations stoked fear of privacy concerns. But even so, its financial contribution often fell short of expectations, more than half a dozen employees told Insider. Employees told Insider the product is Bezos's latest pet project.
☆ Amidst the layoffs at Amazon, the company's ultra-secretive research lab is at risk of being shut. It's a sign things are changing 'dramatically' at the company.
  + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +14 min
Early last month, members of Amazon's secretive in-house research lab, Grand Challenge, were called into an unexpected video meeting. Weibel announced 3 of the 5 projects Grand Challenge was working on would shut down, effective immediately. When other team employees wanted to collaborate with the team, they needed additional approvals from its leadership. Amazon Glow was among the Grand Challenge projects to be discontinued at the end of this year. Getting support promoting Grand Challenge projects was a challenge too.
☆ The creator of Amazon's Kindle has left the company, along with a top Alexa executive, adding to a leadership exodus under new CEO Andy Jassy
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
President of Lab126 Gregg Zehr retired in August, the same day as SVP of Alexa Tom Taylor. They are the latest high-profile executives to leave Amazon. Almost 90 VP or higher level executives have left Amazon since early 2021. Taylor and Zehr are the latest high-profile executives to leave Amazon. Zehr and Taylor's departures leave a big leadership hole at Amazon's personal devices business.
☆ Amazon executives overseeing Alexa, hardware group depart the company
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Annie Palmer | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Gregg Zehr, president of Amazon's hardware research and development group, known as Lab126, has retired, the company confirmed to CNBC. Tom Taylor, senior vice president of Amazon Alexa and a member of CEO Andy Jassy's elite S-Team, is also retiring, Amazon said. In July, public policy chief Jay Carney left to join Airbnb, and 23-year Amazon veteran Dave Clark resigned as retail chief a month later. Two prominent Black leaders — operations executive Dave Bozeman and Alicia Boler-Davis, senior vice president of global customer fulfillment — also announced their departures in June. The average tenure for vice presidents is about 10 years, and for senior vice presidents it is "much longer," the spokesperson said.
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