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Why Capital One customers love its proactive bot (VB Live)

Google now lets businesses customize CallJoy, the automated telephone customer service agent

AI designed this gin, but would you drink it?

AI-generated fake content could unleash a virtual arms race

Guest
PlayStation leads October’s game industry ad spend, but NFL TV networks are the big winners

Feature
How the ride-hailing industry is fueling a new breed of startup

Lawmakers call for pause on false micro-targeted political ads

Applause targets AI bias by sourcing training data at scale

The 4 entrepreneurial stages: Their challenges and the solutions

WhatsApp Business launches Catalogs to let small businesses share products

Facebook cut off developer access to user data to squash potential rivals

VB Live
How your startup can compete in the big tech hiring space (VB Live)

Spruce Up wants to do for home decor what Pandora did for music

At Adobe Max, augmented reality is fighting its way out of the corner

Microsoft rebrands Flow as Power Automate, adds RPA features and virtual agents

Opinion
ProBeat: Alexa Answers devalues Amazon’s virtual assistant

Amazon is poorly vetting Alexa’s user-submitted answers

Google launches Site Kit plugin for insights into WordPress websites

Facebook Marketplace draws scrutiny from EU antitrust regulators

VB Live
Customers will be all-in on bots in 2020 and other CX predictions (VB Live)

Crunchbase raises $30 million for personalized experiences using machine learning

Wholesale marketplace Faire raises $150 million at a $1 billion valuation

Snapchat’s new 3D Paint feature makes it easy to create your own AR snaps from your camera

Partner Content
According to FlightHub: AI + humans = Perfect customer service

AspireIQ: Half of brand marketers are embracing influencer marketing strategies

Alphabet misses profit estimates as Google investigations loom

Spotify grows users 30% in Q3 2019, premium subscribers reach 113 million

Google Search to stop indexing Flash content in late 2019

Facebook takes down false ad placed as a stunt by left-leaning PAC

Twitter now proactively removes half of all abusive tweets, up from 43% in Q2 2019

Salesforce launches new Einstein email capabilities for Marketing Cloud

Twitter Q3 2019 revenue jumps 9% to $824 million, ‘monetizable daily users’ grow 17% to 145 million

Android Pie passes 20% adoption after 12 months

Ironsource launches LevelPlay tool to monetize mobile apps and games

Snap grows daily active users in Q3 2019, but revenue guidance sends shares down 5%

Facebook reveals new measures to combat misinformation and voter suppression ahead of 2020 election

Signal AI raises $25 million to automate reputation management and monitoring

VB Live
5 predictions for AI’s impact on customer experience in 2020 (VB Live)

Partner Content
FlightHub and tech working together to improve the customer experience

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