


LinkedIn syncs its Sales Navigator with Salesforce and launches Gmail extension

Mark Zuckerberg challenges Brazilian soccer superstar Neymar to a ‘keepie uppie’ contest

European food delivery startup Deliveroo expands into 20-minute booze deliveries

Google Play director Purnima Kochikar on the importance of context in the world of bots

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Android Nougat Developer Preview 5 lets you zoom with volume buttons in the camera app

Yahoo’s conversational interfaces seek to compete with Amazon’s Alexa and Facebook M

Human answers to bot questions from MobileBeat 2016

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To bot or not to bot: Understanding A.I.’s role in the enterprise

Microsoft updates Skype Preview for Windows 10 Insiders with dark theme, chatbots, real-time translation

Yahoo takes $482 million charge on Tumblr in Q2 2016, hits $1.31 billion in revenue, still no buyer

Netflix now has 83 million subscribers, but it grew slower than ever in the U.S.

BuzzFeed releases a chatbot for the Republican National Convention

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6 lessons from building my own chatbot

Google launches Android Nougat Developer Preview 5 with near-final system updates for supported devices

Conversable’s big week at the intersection of bots, business, and government

Microsoft launches Stream video sharing service for work, will combine it with Office 365 Video

Hashtag creator Chris Messina on the state of conversational commerce

Facebook adds specific action-based bidding to its mobile app install ads

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Leverage your social analytics for big gains (VB Live)

U.K. med-tech startup raises $20 million to bring next-gen robotics to surgery
OpenGate Capital Raises $305 Million for First Institutional Private Equity Fund

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I only shared pictures of dogs, cats and babies for one week on Facebook. Here’s what I learned.

Samsung negotiating to buy stake in Chinese electric car maker to boost chip business

SoftBank confirms $32B acquisition of U.K.-based chipmaker ARM to target ‘Internet of Things’

Chinese $1.2B takeover of Norway’s Opera fails, alternative $600M deal agreed

SpaceX to try again to send docking ring for space taxis to station

SoftBank to buy mobile chip kingpin ARM Holdings for $32 billion

Kik president Josh Jacobs explains why all bots should be cross-platform

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Personal assistant bots like Siri and Cortana have a serious problem

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Why ‘innovation tourism’ is killing big companies

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Apps put on notice as new study suggests teens love chatbots

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Forget learning to code: Every employee should know data analysis

Ride shuts down commuter carpooling service, pivots to family-friendly shuttle option

You’ve been charging your smartphone wrong

How to set a custom theme with Google Keyboard

Hands-on with the Scrivener writing app for iOS

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Chatbots and humans: Can’t we just get along?
