Google one-ups Amazon ahead of Prime Day with ridiculous Home bundle deal

Google is throwing down the gauntlet and trying to crash Amazon's annual Prime Day party with an almost too-good-to-be-true deal on Alexa's biggest competition.

Prime Day has become Amazon's annual summer sales blowout extravaganza, giving everyone an excuse to drop what they're doing and buy all the things they could ever want online. Foremost among the sales will undoubtedly be deals on Amazon's Echo speakers, which have made Alexa the leading AI assistant on the market. 

But that doesn't mean that Google, Amazon's closest competitor in the smart speaker space, is just going to lie down let the Echo devices fly out of Amazon's distribution centers without a challenge. Google is now offering its Home speaker at an almost laughably cheap price, with an extra device to sweeten the deal. Read more...