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