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Q&A with Panos Panay, Amazon’s head of devices and services, on Alexa+, the company’s focus on home devices, the Leo satellite broadband business, and more— Executive responsible for promoting the “beauty” and profitability of the group’s devices unit on the hardware push following Alexa+
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