Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. 1 — Walmart taps Google to challenge Amazon’s hold on voice-assisted shopping. Walmart and Google are teaming up to enter the voice-shopping market, which is now dominated by Amazon’s AI virtual assistant Alexa. Although Amazon’s Alexa is the early leader, Google’s Assistant platform - and others - are sure to be players. This week Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) group announced enhancements to ads served on AMP.

Source: Forbes August 27, 2017 11:26 UTC