Messenger is all about bots now. As expected, Facebook unveiled the Send and Receive API at its F8 conference. It lets you create bots for Messenger to search for things and interact with businesses.

Telegram Messenger is quite popular, more than you might think. It’s not yet on the same level as WhatsApp due to only amassing 550 million monthly users, and 55 million daily users on a consistent ...

This year, we’ve watched Apple, Google, Facebook, Samsung, Microsoft, and many other tech giants make acquisitions or launch products to get into the bot business. They’re building bot ecosystems ...

Bot creation platform Motion.ai now allows people to create bots with Node.js modules that can be used to do things like call on APIs or interact with databases. Motion.ai utilizes the cloud-based AWS ...

Over the last five or so years, Discord has consistently shown that it is the instant messaging platform for not only gamers but anyone looking to message, video chat, or stream with friends online.

A few years ago a slightly forgotten (a least in Western eyes) mobile messaging app called Nimbuzz launched little ‘chat bots’ on its platform. The bots could tell you about the weather or your ...

Not long ago, the brand marketing world caught bot fever. Chatbots were the hottest new thing around, to both ease company resources while helping people get what they want–products, answers, ...

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