Amazon reportedly met with the creator of an Echo-like device in 2013 before launching its own now-dominant smart speaker 2 years later

· Amazon reportedly met with multiple startups over the years for apparent talk of acquisitions and investments only to develop similar products of their own, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
· One of the companies was Ubi, a voice-activated device that landed on the market in 2012 and was strikingly similar to the...