Technology start-up ActiveBuddy says it plans to offer its software tools to developers, allowing companies to build their own "bots" that send information in instant messages. ActiveBuddy, which ...

Discord is a instant messaging and digital distribution platform designed for creating communities. With over 100 million users, the service allows you to communicate with voice calls, video calls, ...

PCMag spoke to Amir Shevat, Head of Developer Relations at Slack, and John Agan, Senior Developer Relations Manager at Slack (Bring Together Teams, Tools and Information With 50% Off Slack Pro at ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Motion AI, a Chicago company that lets anyone easily build a bot without ...

Twitter bots can do a heck of a lot more than just spam trending hashtags and relentlessly follow users. Take the Twisst ISS alerts bot, which sends you a direct message whenever the International ...

Bots went through the hype cycle faster than a speeding roller coaster, as the promise of chatting with a computer quickly turned sour. Now, Twilio wants to take another stab at this market with the ...

One of the more fascinating trends of this past year was the move to conversational computing. Instead of building complex apps, using bots over services like Facebook’s Messenger or Microsoft’s Skype ...

With hundreds of new bots popping up daily, it seems everyone is exploring chatbot development. In fact, the chatbot market size is estimated to grow from $703.3 million in 2016 to $3.2 billion by ...

At its F8 developer conference, Facebook unveiled a new Messenger platform that allows developers to build bots inside Facebook Messenger. Bots are hot; they could even be the future. At its a heart, ...