Motley Fool updates available on Amazon Echo

Personal finance website Motley Fool is making its Flash updates available on Amazon Echo.

The Amazon Echo is an artificial intelligence personal assistant for your house. It sits there like a speaker and you give it commands.

It can control your house lights, order you an Uber, play music, sports scores, the news, all just by asking. So in this case, you’d say “Alexa, what’s new?” or “Give me my Flash briefing.” And it’ll automatically play the Motley Fool update on the stock market.

To set your Echo up to receive Motley Fool updates, in the Alexa app, go to settings, then “Flash Briefing.” There you can select The Motley Fool as your news source.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.