Amazon's Alexa won the CES battle, but faces a tough war ZDNet

Ford cars will soon offer Alexa, but also competitive agents. Amazon's Alexa voice agent has been the biggest surprise hit for the mammoth online retailer since it moved into the cloud storage business with Amazon Web Services. Alexa showed up at CES 2017 in full force. As Larry Dignan notes, the agent picked up friends in high places, including Ford, Whirlpool, Dish Network, Huawei, Hyundai, Mattel, Lenovo, LG, Samsung and ADT. That shouldn't be a surprise to those who noted the rise of Alexa at CES 2016.