
Facebook’s Places Graph makes 140 million locations available to developers for free
Earlier this week, during the F8 developer conference keynote — which was mostly about augmented reality, virtual reality and Messenger —...

Pega adds conversational bots as front-ends for its platform
This week, Pega is joining the growing number of companies that are setting up conversational bot interfaces for their products. The...

Hootsuite’s recent buying spree may only be a warm-up
That’s how Hootsuite Senior Director of Business and Corporate Development Richard Hungerford sees it. It used to be, he said, that...

How much is a happy customer worth?
A new Lithium/Harris poll finds that US consumers will spend one-third of their disposable incomes with brands they love. They’ll go for...

This new AI-powered social marketing tool can predict engagement or write the post for you
A rebranded startup is launching this week an AI-powered social marketing tool that it says can boost engagement, and even write the...

Dovetale launches tool for automatically finding influencers through photo-matching
To build a marketing campaign employing influencers, a brand first must find the right ones. Usually, brands locate influencers by...

PullString now allows marketers to choose their intent engine
In a sign of the evolution of conversational bot platforms, PullString is now allowing marketers to choose from several third-party...

Hootsuite buys AdEspresso, adds onboard Facebook/Instagram ad management
From the AdEspresso website Hootsuite stepped up its ad game this week, announcing the acquisition of online ad tool AdEspresso — and the...

MarTech Landscape: What is influencer marketing?
You’re at a party and notice a friend is wearing a new pair of bright red sneakers. He raves about how they feel, so you go out the next...

Amplero enlists machine learning to leverage influencer marketing
Graphic by Amplero Influencer marketing tries to leverage a popular person’s network of friends and followers. To do that with existing...

Brandwatch now offers three-year searches of Unlimited Historical Data
Social intelligence provider Brandwatch has launched its Unlimited Historical Data for searching online conversations and news over the...

Snaplytics launches Snapchat analytics
A screen from Snaplytics A Danish startup is now offering a new analytics service for Snapchat’s disappearing videos and photos that it...

Buyer’s Guide: Find the right social media management software for your business
If you are considering a social media management software platform, this guide will help you through the decision-making process....

Marketers: Here are a dozen authoring tools to help you get chatty with chatbots
In case you didn’t get the memo, marketers now have another channel to wrangle: continuous, intelligent conversations with customers. One...

Imperson unveils chatbot platform so you can create your own character
Sample chatbot conversations with Miss Piggy and Judy Hopps, from Imperson Imperson has specialized in character-based chatbots, like the...

Introducing the “Influencer Marketing Technology Landscape”
Influencer marketing is a “hot mess,” according The Wall Street Journal. I tend to agree, as it’s a challenge to build the ideal...

Inside the making of Taco Bell’s artificially intelligent, drunk-tolerant TacoBot
James R. Martin / Shutterstock.com Welcome to 2016, where you can buy flowers, book a flight and order an Uber through messaging apps...

Customer service provider [24]7 ports its chat bot/live agent service to Facebook Messenger
Move over, telephone. Facebook Messenger in particular, and messaging apps in general, are on their way toward becoming the main live...

Gigya Report: Facebook Still Dominates Social Logins But May Be Fading A Bit
From the new Gigya report Facebook is still the king of social logins on websites worldwide, but its dominance may be on a slow decline....
























