You can now share Kik bot experiences with friends
From tweets to streets, Zimbabwe social media anger erupts into anti-Mugabe protests
Apple is releasing iOS 10 and macOS Sierra public betas today
After partnering with Facebook and Google, Russian startup VisionLabs raises $5.5 million from local corporate fund
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MobileBeat 2016 shows bots are hitting critical mass (full agenda)
CartoDB rebrands as Carto and opens location data mapping to non-coders
Russian leader Putin signs controversial ‘Big Brother’ law
BevSpot raises $11 million to give booze sellers better data
Post-Quantum raises $8 million as cybersecurity investments surge
The sorts of things people say to a prayer chatbot
Samsung Galaxy S7 appears to have pulled the company out of its smartphone slump
Avast acquires rival AVG for $1.3 billion to create a security software giant
Facebook: Falcon Heights shooting video disappeared due to ‘technical glitch’
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Don’t fire your sales team: Chatbots are here to assist, not replace
What ManyChat learned after the creation of 170,000 bots
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Until A.I. gets better, buttons are a bridge for chatbots
CEO Evan Spiegel explains why Snapchat’s new Memories feature is a terrible idea
Bot that’s like Chatroulette for Facebook Messenger hits 250,000 users in 3 weeks
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Mobile ROI: How mobile app and game developers can achieve massive results (VB Live)
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3 rules intelligent assistants must follow in the age of artificial intelligence
Facebook launches OpenCellular, an open source networking hardware project
Mozilla is building Context Graph, a ‘recommender system for the web’
Facebook is testing offline video access in India as YouTube rivalry heats up
Light raises $30 million and adds wider zoom, more storage for its mini-DSLR camera
Microsoft unveils Thinga.Me, an iPhone app for making virtual collections of your real stuff
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A Google-built phone is full of disruptive potential — and pitfalls
Snapchat’s new Memories feature lets you save your snaps for later
Google updates Now on Tap with translation from any screen, Discover mode, barcode and QR code scanning
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Synthesio now analyzes emojis and emoticons in 17 languages
Tesla told regulators about Autopilot crash 9 days after accident
TapInfluence Releases The Official Guide To Making Intelligent Influencer Marketing Investments
Unitas Global Named Among 50 Best Companies to Watch
NASA RoboGlove developed for International Space Station finds a new purpose on Earth
5 trends that remind us why 2016 will be a tough year for Apple’s iPhone sales
Google buys machine learning startup Moodstocks to help your phone’s camera identify objects
Safaricom launches Little Cab to rival Uber in Kenya
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Apple’s unexpected approach to bots
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Ding dong, the app is dead: How Kik is building the business case for bots (VB Live)
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