| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.06.2019 | Is Slack The Future Of Business Communication? | NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 20: Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and chief executive officer of Slack, stands... [+] outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) before the opening bell, June 20, 2019 in New York City. The workplace messaging app Slac... |
| 14.11.2018 | Microsoft Buys Austin-Based XOXCO, Its 15th Startup Deal This Year | 16 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Morning Markets: Microsoft bought something new for itself. Let’s take a look.
Software giant Microsoft bought XOXCO, a Texas-based dev shop, it announced today. The Redmond-based company has now ma... |
| 14.11.2018 | Microsoft Buys Austin-based XOXCO | Microsoft buys Austin-based XOXCO, a software product design and development studio known for its conversational artificial intelligence and bot development. |
| 03.08.2017 | 20 bots that can help you build your startup | Tens of thousands of bots have been built to do things like promote movies and sell chicken wings, but there’s also an entire league of bots created to help businesses grow and streamline tasks. Chances are pretty good you will need more th... |
| 03.08.2017 | 20 bots that can help you build your startup | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Tens of thousands of bots have been built to do t... |
| 01.08.2017 | Facebook’s botched Messenger rollout isn’t hurting chatbots | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Last year, Facebook triggered a wave of hype surr... |
| 11.07.2017 | Early chatbot believers Howdy and Bot Metrics join forces to deliver on the promise of bots | Two of the largest communities for chatbot developers are joining forces with the belief that bots are only just getting started.
Howdy, a company backed by Bloomberg Beta and Slack among others, announced that it has acquired Bot Metrics, ... |
| 29.03.2017 | Where The Slack Fund Stands In Building the Messaging Platform Of The Future | 0 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Slack’s investment arm, the Slack Fund, along with traditional venture shops Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, have pledged to invest $80 million into startups that build on its platform.
The fund is la... |
| 15.02.2017 | Botkit, originally only for making Slack bots, integrates with Cisco Spark | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Botkit, an open source framework for making bots ... |
| 15.02.2017 | Botkit, originally only for making Slack bots, integrates with Cisco Spark | Botkit, an open source framework for making bots made by Austin-based startup Howdy, announced an integration with the Cisco Spark chat app today.
The integration will allow developers using Botkit to add bots made for Slack to be added to ... |
| 26.01.2017 | Building better bots with threads | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Last week Slack released the long-awaited Threads feature, which helps teams organize and manage the variety of conversations that happ... |
| 30.11.2016 | The Bots Landscape evolves, adds heavyweights like Google Assistant, funds 14 more Slack bots | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
About a year ago I left Google to join Slack, and... |
| 02.11.2016 | Message.io launches enterprise bot converter to tear down walled gardens | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Message.io launched a private beta of its enterpr... |
| 08.10.2016 | Slack bot builder Howdy now supports Microsoft’s Bot Framework | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The main set of tools used to create Microsoft and Slack bots now work together, the companies told VentureBeat this week.
The integrat... |
| 08.10.2016 | Slack bot builder Howdy now supports Microsoft’s Bot Framework | The main set of tools used to create Microsoft and Slack bots now work together, the companies told VentureBeat this week.
The integration means Microsoft Bot Framework users will be able to make bots for Slack, and Botkit users will be abl... |
| 04.10.2016 | 100 people to watch in the chatbot space | This is my personal top 100 for people to watch in the bot space. Let me know who you think I’m missing and please provide me with additional information.
Thanks to everyone who helped me curate this list. Now let’s get straight to the poin... |
| 25.08.2016 | How to build and launch your own Slack bot | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Building a bot has become easier than ever with s... |
| 25.08.2016 | How to build and launch your own Slack bot | Building a bot has become easier than ever with so many tools and resources available online. But I still find people struggling to get started. Having successfully launched my own bot called Engazify on the Slack app store, I have a few ti... |
| 15.08.2016 | The first 5 A.I. ’employees’ you will hire | Bots are redefining how consumers interact with products and services.
Conversational interfaces may already seem groundbreaking, but we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg. The real disruption will take place in the business world. Even... |
| 19.07.2016 | Slack, now with 600 apps on its platform, pours $2M into 14 Slackbot startups via its Slack Fund | Slack, the popular messaging app for co-workers to chat, share files and distract each other with GIFs, has taken some major steps forward to establish itself as a wider productivity platform. As of today, there are 600 apps integrated with... |
| 19.07.2016 | Slack reveals the next 11 bot startups from its $80 million fund | It’s fair to say that Slack hasn’t had all that much trouble coming up with cash, with over $540 million raised in the past few years, including a $200 million round at a $3.8 billion post-money valuation in April of this year. So what happ... |
| 19.07.2016 | Slack reveals the next 11 bot startups from its $80 million fund | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It’s fair to say that Slack hasn’t had all that much trouble coming up with cash, with over $540 million raised in the past few years, ... |
| 05.07.2016 | First international Botathon picks up steam: Apply by Friday, July 8! | We’re delighted to announce that the international Botathon VentureBeat has organized with a group of regional partners is off to an excellent start.
We’ve already received well over 100 solid applications from participants after our first ... |
| 29.06.2016 | SF, New York, Austin, Chicago, Toronto, and Melbourne: VB’s Botathon is coming to your town! | The innovations coming out of the bot and messaging space are starting to explode.
How about a bot that turns your text into video? Or celebrity bots that can convincingly assume the personality of said famous person? Or a chatbot as your n... |
| 29.06.2016 | SF, New York, Austin, Chicago, Toronto, and Melbourne: VB’s Botathon is coming to your town! | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The innovations coming out of the bot and messagi... |
| 27.06.2016 | 5 reasons mobile apps still rule: The Conversational Economy, Part 2 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
(This is Part 2 in a series on the Conversational Economy. Read Part 1 here.)
If these powerful forces and players are fueling the rapi... |
| 27.06.2016 | 5 reasons mobile apps still rule: The Conversational Economy, Part 2 | (This is Part 2 in a series on the Conversational Economy. Read Part 1 here.)
If these powerful forces and players are fueling the rapid rise of the Conversational Economy, why aren’t we there yet?
1. Fragmentation stunts developer ecosyste... |
| 14.05.2016 | Tips for Slack bot onboarding | 2.5 million people use Slack on a daily basis. As usage grows, we are only going to see more bots arrive in the Slack app Store and greater admin control of Slack integrations. According to the Slack Platform Roadmap for Developers, it’s a ... |
| 29.02.2016 | Как ИТ-гиганты создают искусственный интеллект | С 2010 года технологии искусственного интеллекта и машинного обучения привлекают всё больше внимания инвесторов и предпринимателей. ИИ-системы уже помогают людям в повседневной жизни, однако пока помощники с цифровым «разумом» не могут выпо... |
| 16.12.2015 | Slack Launches App Platform, Directory, Fund | It’s a big week for Slack. The company hosted an event and made some major announcements. these include the Slack Platform and App Directory as well as a new fund and a new framework.
Slack claims it has hit 2 million active users, and is l... |
| 15.12.2015 | Meet Botkit, an open-source framework for building your own Slack bot | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today is a big day for team communication app Sla... |
| 20.10.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 20.10.2015 | Howdy Raises $1.5 Million From Top VCs To Develop Apps For Slack | Despite a checkered history with online platforms, developers are always looking for the next big distribution model and a small but growing number is betting Slack, the popular group-messaging platform, is the way to go.
One such startup, ... |
| 20.10.2015 | Slack bot maker Howdy launches with $1.5M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Startup Howdy has built a bot (software that runs... |
| 20.10.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Uber may have a new rival in China, as Yidao Yongche to raise $700M
China ride-hailing app Yidao Yongche said that a unit of... |
| 20.10.2015 | Slack bot maker Howdy launches with $1.5M | Startup Howdy has built a bot (software that runs automated tasks) for team-communication app Slack that can run virtual meetings, and is launching today with $1.5 million in seed funding.
The bot — a digital personality that works sort of ... |
| 20.10.2015 | For Slack’s App Builders, The Message Is The Platform | Have you gotten the message?
Ben Brown has. The Internet pioneer, an old friend of mine, has long experimented with new interfaces. A decade and a half before millions of Pinterest users relied on “Pin It” buttons in their Web browsers to s... |
| - | True Insights: Voice | We say “I’m speechless” colloquially when we don’t know what to say. Something is so surprising to us that we describe ourselves as unable to communicate, without words.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen the power of Freedom of Speech ca... |
| - | Chennai Based Howdy Ventures Raises $1.5 Mn Funding; Launches Events And Social Messaging App HowdyDo! | Howdy Ventures Pvt. Ltd, a company based out of Chennai, has raised $1.5 Mn (INR 10 Cr) at a $3 Mn (INR 20 Cr) valuation, from S. Xavier Britto the Chairman of Kerry Indev Logistics, against a 50% equity stake. Britto has been appointed as ... |
