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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What We Talk About When We Talk About Finances (With Alexa)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Finances (With Alexa)
February 14, 2018  |  Chatbots

Alexa, how much is in the till? Increasingly talking dollars and cents (or should that be sense?) is less a conversation held person to person...

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Amazon’s New Chip To Make Alexa Even Smarter
Amazon’s New Chip To Make Alexa Even Smarter
February 13, 2018  |  Amazon

Amazon is reportedly working on its own artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled chip to interface with Alexa, its voice-activated digital assistant, according to a Monday (Feb. 12)...

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Match.com And Alexa’s Valentine’s Mismatch
Match.com And Alexa’s Valentine’s Mismatch
February 13, 2018  |  Amazon Innovations

Alexa has many valuable skills to share – a little over 25,000, to be precise. Need to know the weather, order up an Uber, get a Domino’s pizza delivered,...

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HomePod: The Early Reviews Are In (And Not So Pretty)
HomePod: The Early Reviews Are In (And Not So Pretty)
February 07, 2018  |  Apple

After a big introduction last fall — followed by a long wait during the holiday season that Apple decided to sit out — the much speculated-upon HomePod...

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Amex Buys AI Travel App Mezi
Amex Buys AI Travel App Mezi
January 31, 2018  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

American Express announced Tuesday (Jan. 30) that it has acquired Mezi, the personal travel assistant app that helps people plan and book their trips. Terms...

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QR Codes Sizzle, Smart Parts Fizzle And Facebook Bows Out Of AI Assistants
QR Codes Sizzle, Smart Parts Fizzle And Facebook Bows Out Of AI Assistants
January 12, 2018  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

Facebook’s M Fizzles While most of the week was dedicated to the cohort of players at The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) battling it out on...

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Payments 2018: Think This — Not That
Payments 2018: Think This — Not That
January 08, 2018  |  Payments Innovation

In 800 B.C., when people wanted to know the answer to “what’s next” about their personal futures, they flocked to Delphi and asked Pythia, the...

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Getting Credit Unions Ready For The Voice-Activated Future
Getting Credit Unions Ready For The Voice-Activated Future
January 03, 2018  |  Voice Activation

In what feels like the blink of an eye — and pushed by the breakout success of Amazon’s Echo line of smart speaker products —...

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The Year In Voice-Activated AI
The Year In Voice-Activated AI
December 27, 2017  |  Intelligence of Things

“Alexa?” “Hey, Siri…” “Okay, Google…” “Hi, Bixby…” If we told the average person in early 2013 that someday it was going to be very important...

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