Category Archives: chatbots

Pypestream raises $15M for its customer messaging platform

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Pypestream Pypestream is announcing that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding. When the startup launched more than a year ago, founder and CEO Richard Smullen was pitching text messaging as the best way for customers to communicate with businesses — specifically, through the Pypestream app, where businesses can create their own accounts with a variety of different “pypes”… Read More Continue reading Pypestream raises $15M for its customer messaging platform→

LinkedIn doubles down on education with LinkedIn Learning, updates desktop site

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screen-shot-2016-09-22-at-17-49-43 LinkedIn, the social network for the working world that now has some 450 million members and is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion, today took the wraps off its newest efforts to expand its site beyond job hunting and recruitment, its two business mainstays. The company has launched a new site called LinkedIn Learning, an ambitious e-learning portal tailored… Read More Continue reading LinkedIn doubles down on education with LinkedIn Learning, updates desktop site→

Never leave Slack with message button bots for using Kayak, Trello, and more

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slack-approve-deny Now you can approve expenses, assign deadlines, check flights, and interact with other enterprise tools from inside Slack with its new Message Buttons. Slack is vying to become your always-open portal to work with the biggest update to its API since its December launch. For example, just type “/kayak flights from NYC to BOS on 6/23” and you’ll get shown flight options with… Read More Continue reading Never leave Slack with message button bots for using Kayak, Trello, and more→