New study shows chatbots have a retention issue: Here’s how to fix that (VB Live)

VB Staff October 14, 2016 8:10 AM

The DeanBeat: This player spent $2 million in a mobile game. Then he led a boycott.

Dean Takahashi October 14, 2016 8:00 AM

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Study shows triggered push notifications are 2,770% better than batch messages

Stewart Rogers October 14, 2016 7:30 AM

Unicorn Club loses its luster: Just 9 new entrants in Q3 and a $30 billion valuation progression

Baptiste Parravicini October 14, 2016 7:10 AM

Samsung launches gold Galaxy TabPro S with double the RAM and storage, available now for $1,000

Paul Sawers October 14, 2016 6:34 AM

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Fanbytes launches its programmatic Snapchat influencer marketing platform

Stewart Rogers October 14, 2016 6:30 AM

SwiftKey’s neural network-based predictive keyboard app now speaks Spanish, French, and German

Paul Sawers October 14, 2016 2:32 AM

AMD, Dell EMC, Google, HPE, IBM, Mellanox, Micron, Nvidia, Xilinx launch OpenCAPI Consortium

Jordan Novet October 14, 2016 2:00 AM

Instagram launches for Windows 10 PCs and tablets

Emil Protalinski October 13, 2016 10:31 PM

Saudi Arabia and SoftBank plan $100 billion tech investment fund

Reuters October 13, 2016 10:23 PM

Falling Q3 venture investments confirm that nutty unicorn valuations have dipped

Dean Takahashi October 13, 2016 9:01 PM

General Motors’ Maven car-sharing service expands to San Francisco, its 9th market

Ken Yeung October 13, 2016 9:00 PM

Guest

Today’s VC funding drought will drive tomorrow’s adtech consolidation

Ido Pollak, Matomy Media Group October 13, 2016 7:37 PM

How Amazon’s new music-streaming service compares to Spotify, Apple, and Google

Paul Sawers October 13, 2016 5:54 PM

Samsung: Galaxy Note7 disaster will cut operating profit by more than $2.6 billion in Q4 and Q1 2017

Ken Yeung October 13, 2016 4:57 PM

Press Release

NextEV Officially Opens North American Headquarters

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How TGI Friday’s employs a chatbot to fight for customer mindshare

Sherif Mityas, TGI Friday's October 13, 2016 4:10 PM

World of Warcraft director Tom Chilton steps down to lead a new Blizzard project

Jeff Grubb October 13, 2016 4:05 PM

VB Live

How tech and data are transforming the lending landscape (VB Live)

VB Staff October 13, 2016 3:44 PM

Guest

Publishers are missing the jump from desktop to mobile

Kunal Gupta, Polar October 13, 2016 3:10 PM

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MaxPlay lays off almost all workers as game engine startup switches to licensing

Dean Takahashi October 13, 2016 3:00 PM

Xbox One outsold PlayStation 4 again in September

Jeff Grubb October 13, 2016 2:50 PM

Guest

Why chatbots should initiate a conversation

Tony Lucas, Converse.ai October 13, 2016 2:10 PM

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Pathbreaker Ventures raises $12 million to invest in emerging tech like VR and robotics

Dean Takahashi October 13, 2016 2:00 PM

VMware announces cloud service on top of AWS, available in mid-2017

Jordan Novet October 13, 2016 1:33 PM

Dreamhack and ESL parent company bags 35% stake in InnoGames, a mobile studio without esports

Dean Takahashi October 13, 2016 1:30 PM

Press Release

Everspin Technologies Announces Closing of its Initial Public Offering and Private Placement

Vine for iOS now lets you remix sound from other videos

Ken Yeung October 13, 2016 1:07 PM

Yo-Kai Watch movie comes to U.S. theaters … for just one day

Jeff Grubb October 13, 2016 12:55 PM

BotBeat: This week’s top bot stories

Blaise Zerega October 13, 2016 12:50 PM

Hearthstone event at Blizzcon on November 4 could reveal the next expansion

Mike Minotti October 13, 2016 12:30 PM

Hyperloop One raises $50 million despite lawsuit, and adds finance adviser

Dean Takahashi October 13, 2016 12:15 PM

How the And Chill chatbot helped me find more science fiction movies

John Brandon October 13, 2016 12:10 PM

Dropbox appoints new CTO, Aditya Agarwal, takes over for cofounder Arash Ferdowsi

Jordan Novet October 13, 2016 11:55 AM

Batman: Arkham VR devs knew that suiting up was the key to becoming the Dark Knight

Mike Minotti October 13, 2016 11:40 AM

Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with finger gesture customizations, new Wi-Fi option

Emil Protalinski October 13, 2016 11:02 AM

Facebook now lets you stream videos to Apple TV and Google Chromecast

Ken Yeung October 13, 2016 10:38 AM

Buzz Aldrin stars in VR messages that will keep Mars astronauts from being lonely

Dean Takahashi October 13, 2016 10:30 AM

Battleborn gets a new campaign and multiplayer mode

Mike Minotti October 13, 2016 10:15 AM

Press Release

Contessa Health Closes $7 Million Series B Financing