While the appeal of chatbots and conversational commerce is undeniable, I’m highly skeptical about their future in bot stores built on existing messaging platforms such as Messenger, Kik, Telegram, ...

IT software company HelpSystems recently opened its Automated Bot Store, which provides pre-built bots to help customers to evolve automation projects using the company’s Automate robotic process ...

If Facebook announces the “Messenger Bot Store” at F8, as many predict, it would be arguably the most consequential event for the tech industry since Apple announced the App Store and iPhone SDK in ...

Need to plan a trip? Order food, maybe? Or perhaps you need help planning your calendar. Well, there are bots for all of those things. Bots are all the rage right now, with Facebook reportedly ...

Kik is officially the first messenger app out of the gate with its own bot store, which the company believes will be critical to the success of not only its future; but the future of all messenger ...

It seems like barely a day passes without some notable mention of chat bots in the tech industry. Now one of North America’s most used chat apps has jumped on the wagon after Kik, the billion dollar ...

Bot-making platform Motion.ai has just released a "bot store," where companies, groups, and individuals who want to release a bot can get, customize, and deploy a bot in minutes. Restaurant Bot, for ...

The SEO poisoning bot, capable of full system takeover, is actively taking over social media accounts, masquerading as popular games like Temple Run. A backdoor malware that can take over social-media ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Today, messaging app Kik announced a new bot store to urge users and developers ...

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