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The name is Bot, Chatbot: How to shake up conversions with stirring conversations
Columnist Purna Virji explains why an AI-driven conversation agent can potentially be the best sales assistant you have, and provides advice for...
Computer Vision Test: Amazon v. Google v. IBM v. Microsoft v. Pinterest
A comparison of major tech companies’ computer vision technologies based on the labels they affixed to 10...
Bing launches bots for local businesses
Bots are created automatically from data in Bing Places and will soon work with Facebook Messenger and...
Microsoft says it’s infusing AI into all of its products from Xbox to Office
Intelligent cloud vision laid out at Build developer...
MindMeld Conversational AI Playbook helps developers build their own Alexa in 10 steps
CEO Tim Tuttle argues that companies should develop their own virtual assistants....
Report: Parents like the Internet of Things
Parenting site BabyCenter says parents find that sensors and connectivity in the devices/objects they use save time, provide control and add...
Move over, Amazon Echo & Google Home: Here comes Microsoft Cortana
Cortana will be baked into a new smart speaker from Harman Kardon to be released next year, potentially the first of many Cortana-powered...
Cortana Skills Kit announced, will allow Cortana to do transactions through conversation
Microsoft's new Cortana Skills Kit is designed to help Cortana get things...
Microsoft Dynamics 365 adds predictive lead scoring from Versium to its B2B CRM
The new service, the companies said, is the first automated predictive scoring service for Dynamics that utilizes both business and consumer...
Say hello to the newest intelligent agent, Ozlo
Billed as the only independent intelligent agent left, he specializes in finding the best answer from ‘competing sources of...
How the newest Adobe-Microsoft partnership resembles ‘Jerry Maguire’
And what it could mean for the balance of power among the major marketing...
Microsoft blocks Google Chrome & other browsers from Cortana in latest Windows 10 release
Microsoft says blocking third-party browsers & search providers improves user experience and is in keeping with how competitors act with their...
Microsoft’s user-response Pulse platform now supports on-demand video
Moving beyond live transmissions, the free Pulse can serve as a more versatile tool for video-based marketing or...
The week when digital marketing entered the bots era
It’s not just Facebook Messenger’s new bot platform, but that huge userbase bends the tipping...
Super-Smart Business Intelligence Engine BeyondCore Partners With Microsoft To Offer a Free Version
The data analytics software is so smart, it decides which questions to ask and which results are most...
Microsoft Announces Surface Book, Surface Pro 4 & New Lumia Phones
Company also announces new Microsoft Band 2 and development kits for HoloLens to ship early next...
Love, Not War: Microsoft & Google End Patent Suits
Yesterday Google and Microsoft agreed to dismiss multiple patent lawsuits against one another. While the settlement terms were not disclosed,...
Nadella Interview: Bing To Stay, ‘Post-PC’ Now The Way
Several days ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gave his first in-depth interview at the Code Conference. He spoke about a wide range of issues...
Klout Gains Clout With Microsoft Investment
Bing’s social sidebar is now showing Klout information, but this is happening for more than the typical partnership deal. Microsoft is now...
