Too many apps? Maybe a friendly chatbot would make like easier Is the smartphone app doomed? To look at the stats you wouldn't think so: Apple has two million of them in its App Store and Google Play ...

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Despite the push-and-pull treatment Verizon is giving Yahoo regarding the $4.83 billion acquisition, in light of the troublesome press the company is getting because of a massive hack reported late ...

“YOU are a developer and you’ve just spent two weeks writing this amazing app. What is your dream? Your dream is to get it in front of every iPhone user.” That was how Steve Jobs, then Apple’s boss, ...

Chat bots have evolved, and have been compressed and shoehorned into a number of different formats these days. AI-based bots featuring deep learning and other impressive technology often find their ...

As predicted, developers can now build bots inside Facebook Messenger. The announcement was one of the highlights of Facebook’s jam-packed F8 schedule and it further proves what many have been ...

An app called Poe will now let users make their own chatbots using prompts combined with an existing bot, like ChatGPT, as the base. First launched publicly in February, Poe is the latest product from ...

As the number of mobile apps increases while the size of our mobile screens decreases, we’re reaching the limits of the mobile “OS + apps” paradigm. It’s getting harder to download, set up, manage and ...

A new site launching today wants to be the app store for bots. Botlist, as it’s called, is a third-party database that’s a catalog a lot of the bots currently available across platforms, including ...

Simply sign up to the US & Canadian companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Chat app Kik is launching an app store for bots, as technology companies race to engage users in ...