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Dale Nirvani Pfeifer grew up sharing sidewalks with penguins (true story), and daydreaming against the vast blue skies of her native New Zealand. But the Founder & CEO of GoodWorld, a tech startup that makes donating e...

When you arrive in a foreign city for the first time, how would you like to learn about the best nearby restaurants, scenic strolls, or the jazz band that assembles every Saturday at dusk in a centuries-old plaza? From a...

Flipkart chief technical officer Peeyush Ranjan doesn’t believe Alexa, the voice-assistant that powers Amazon’s Echo devices, “as it is will work in India,” the executive said on stage at VentureBeat’s MobileBe...

A new bot released today in the Slack App Directory lets you teach, test, and quickly deploy chatbots on Slack as well as on Facebook Messenger, Kik, and other platforms. ProtoBot was made by Amir Shevat, director of dev...

Personal finance bot maker Kasisto, a spinoff of Siri-maker SRI International, can now trade stock and help users follow their investment portfolio. The news of an integration with TradeIn API was announced today at Mobi...

Launched just six months ago as a hosting platform and bot development company, Beep Boop today announced that it would focus exclusively on developing and integrating bots for Slack. The shift reflects Slack’s growing...

Professional women who take time away from work to care for children, parents or spouses often find going back to work isn't easy. Apres has launched with the goal of becoming a LinkedIn exclusively for women with gaps i...

Engagement, revenue, loyalty. These are concepts not normally associated with chatbots. For now, we tend to see Facebook Messenger bots as early in the development cycle, still trying to find a niche with users, and offe...

Chatbots are gaining popularity and are becoming a popular tool for marketing.

ShareGrid, a marketplace service that allows young urban creators — also (not really) known as Yuccies — to rent insured cameras and production equipment, announced today that it scored its first million round. Led b...

If you know what you're doing, you can harness the power of Pokémon Go to promote your own local business.

I'm here at MobileBeat 2016 covering the latest innovations in technology. The annual event is as close as you can come to a groupthink around one topic with industry insiders in the tech space. The theme of the show thi...

Public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced new functionality for its Database Migration Service, a tool for moving data from on-premises databases into AWS. Now organizations will be a...

There are two types of people in this world: those who want to know and those who’d rather not know. This post is for the people who want to know.

Crowdfunding in the UK is under regulatory scrutiny, but that doesn't mean there are skeletons lurking in the closet

While Pokémon Go rakes in millions of dollars with its augmented reality action, the company responsible for the tech behind the game is raising money to help build the future of AR and VR gaming. Unity Technologies has...

We’re delighted to announce an exciting fireside chat for the AR/VR day at GamesBeat 2016 to address what the environment for investing in VR startups in the near-term and the opportunity for a VR mass market. Check ou...

As the father of two young kids, I spend a good amount of time standing at the periphery of a playground or bounce house or active construction site, watching my progeny play the day away. Occasionally, some similarly...

Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant has become better at understanding what people are saying and, by extension, it’s doing a better job of completing the goals or tasks that people are trying to accomplish when they inte...

Walter O'Brien (the real Walter O'Brien behind the popular Scorpion series) shares his unique philosophies for accomplishing PR.

BitTorrent has revealed that it will launch its much-touted live news network on July 18 at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland, Ohio. The news comes less than a week after the company revealed that it ...

Tencent's Ma Huateng leads group of half dozen Asian entrepreneurs who have made the biggest fortunes from online gaming.