In January, 2018 Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) estimated that Amazon Echo/Alexa controlled 69% of the U.S. smart speaker...

Roughly a year ago, Amazon and Microsoft announced that they each would be integrating their respective digital assistants into the...

announced the news on Monday. Microsoft says that the Berkeley-based technology company has created a “revolutionary” new approach to...

Last week, Microsoft released a version of Cortana for the iPad. Cortana is already available for the iPhone but has now been optimized...

In 2016, Google said that 20 percent of all mobile queries were voice searches. Since that time, the number of virtual assistants in US...

Think back to five short years ago: Facebook IPO’d; Oxford American Dictionary named “gif” its word of the year; and your only options to...

Microsoft wants to make AI available to all developers through its “intelligent cloud” and accessible to devices at the “intelligent...

At a time when risky ads can cause a backlash (e.g., Pepsi), Burger King just did something ingeniously (or annoyingly) calculated to...

Earlier this year we reported that Cortana was coming to the Android lockscreen. Now it has officially launched. Here are some of the...

Amazon Echo, housing the Alexa intelligent agent In the past year or so, a new marketing channel has emerged around bots and intelligent...

In the battle of the virtual assistants, there are the rumblings of a feature war. Microsoft’s Cortana is introducing a new “suggested...

Investment research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) has estimated that there are now 8.2 million US homes with Amazon...

Because Microsoft’s mobile operating system has a tiny share of the smartphone market, the company has been forced to get creative about...

Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, Microsoft’s Cortana. These intelligent agents, and their more limited bot cousins, have...

dennizn / Shutterstock.com There’s one thing that remains true about SEO: it’s always changing. One of the big changes that we’re...

Amazon’s Alexa now has more than 7,000 “skills” (voice apps), according to a presentation given at CES (the Computer Electronics Show) by...

Like Microsoft is doing with Cortana, Amazon is making Alexa available to third-party developers and hardware makers to voice-enable...

Comparative searches on Ozlo and Google Assistant The society of intelligent agents now has a new member. His name is Ozlo, from the Palo...

We live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world powered by technology that changes by the nanosecond. And search is no different. Search is...

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced more job cuts and another charge related to its disappearing mobile phone business. The company...