At Mobile World Congress 2018, Samsung (NASDAQOTH: SSNLF) confirmed rumors that it's building a home assistant to rival Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) market leading Echo device. Samsung's artificial-intelligence assistant, christened Bixby, will power the speaker and go toe-to-toe with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple's Siri, among others. Though slightly behind some of these major rivals, Samsung is entering the home assistant market in time to claim a piece of the growth that is expected in the coming years.It helps that the tech giant has a secret weapon that could give the Amazon Echo and other similar offerings a run for their money: the television.Continue reading