virtual assistant

A virtual assistant is generally self-employed and provides professional administrative, technical, or creative assistance to clients remotely from a home office.

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Alibaba Gears Up To Launch Its Own Voice-Activated Device

Alibaba Gears Up To Launch Its Own Voice-Activated Device
Alibaba Gears Up To Launch Its Own Voice-Activated Device
June 30, 2017  |  Voice Activation

Alibaba, China’s eCommerce company, is reportedly gearing up to create a voice-controlled speaker similar to the virtual assistant Amazon Echo that understands the Chinese language. Get...

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Live More. Bank Less. Bot Smarter.
Live More. Bank Less. Bot Smarter.
June 29, 2017  |  Banking

Singapore’s DBS Bank has a philosophy — Live More, Bank Less — which, at first seems like an odd mission for a multinational bank to adopt. Unless, of...

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Shopify Now Lets Merchants Hire Virtual Employee ‘Kit’ For Free
Shopify Now Lets Merchants Hire Virtual Employee ‘Kit’ For Free
June 07, 2017  |  Innovation

Today in retail news, employee of the week award goes to Kit, Shopify’s virtual assistant for Shopify merchants, who handles digital marketing and advertising for...

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Amazon Pays Top Alexa Skill Developers Directly
Amazon Pays Top Alexa Skill Developers Directly
May 18, 2017  |  Amazon Technology

This month, Amazon launched a new program that directly pays top-performing Alexa skills. While the specifics of the program are scarce as of now, here’s...

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Amazon’s Alexa Gets A New Set Of Speaking Skills To Sound More Human
Amazon’s Alexa Gets A New Set Of Speaking Skills To Sound More Human
May 01, 2017  |  Amazon

Amazon announced that Alexa is going to sound more human, with a new set of speaking skills that allow her to do things like whisper,...

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Facebook Tricks Out Messenger With Food Ordering, Games, QR Codes
Facebook Tricks Out Messenger With Food Ordering, Games, QR Codes
April 19, 2017  |  Facebook

More big things have just come to Facebook Messenger and its native virtual assistant chatbot M, the company said at the ongoing F8 developer conference....

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