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Microsoft wants to help brands build their own virtual assistants ‘in a matter of minutes’
Announcement part of a number of AI-related innovations announced today....
LinkedIn’s latest Sales Navigator updates come with ‘Deals’ feature & Office 365 integration
After releasing a redesign in February, LinkedIn has added more features and integrations to its sales prospecting tool....
Facebook, Twitter, Google & Microsoft partner to launch the Data Transfer Project
The open-source initiative aims to build a framework that makes it easy for people to transfer their data between online...
Propelled by the cloud, Microsoft finishes its fiscal year with $110.4B in revenue, up 14% over FY17
CEO Nadella says early investments in intelligent cloud and intelligent edge are paying off...
Microsoft demonstrates ethical leadership in calling for regulation of facial recognition
Microsoft is out in front of its major tech company peers on this one....
LiveRamp brings its search targeting to Bing Ads
A year after offering its people-based search targeting through Google, the identity resolution provider is now providing a similar service for...
Voice agents and interfaces will require many new marketing strategies
Marketers are only now getting a glimpse of the many approaches that will be required for the many kinds of voice...
DatavizVR rebrands as 3Data, adds new features to its VR data visualization tool
The new platform provides a way to show stakeholders and C-level execs data in an immersive...
The rise of voice technologies means new opportunities for podcasting
Audio tech companies Podible and VoxSnap have both recently launched innovative offerings to podcast listeners and content creators....
Supreme Court to hear case called ‘existential threat’ to cloud computing
The case involves a lawfully obtained search warrant seeking email data stored on a server outside the US....
Microsoft 365 releases GDPR compliance and info protection features for its customers
The company is rolling out updates to its Compliance Manager and making it available to a more general...
LinkedIn updates Sales Navigator with redesigned account pages, improved search
LinkedIn’s latest update to its sales management tool centers around making it quicker to access information about existing and prospective...
Has Alexa replaced Siri as the top virtual assistant brand and cultural reference point?
Apple's HomePod with Siri comes to market later this week....
Cortana’s got mad skills but faces big distribution challenges vs. rivals
Cortana already has 148 million global users, but it's still an underdog....
LinkedIn connects sales, marketing tools for B2B advertisers to target leads, accounts
LinkedIn is updating its Sales Navigator tool so that sales teams can target ads to their contacts and...
Microsoft’s LinkedIn integration, AI and what it means for marketers
Columnist Justin Freid takes a look at how Microsoft's increasing LinkedIn integration, along with advancements in artificial intelligence, will...
Resulticks’ marketing platform now offers a new channel: Voice agent
The Singapore-based company says this is the first voice agent integrated with a full customer life...
LinkedIn opens new ad network to sell Sponsored Content ads on others’ apps, sites
Unlike its old ad network, LinkedIn Audience Network centers on the work-centric social network's native ad format and skews toward mobile app...
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...