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| Sep 27, 2022 | ‘Siri for work’ automation startup ybot raises $4.6 million | Sydney startup ybot, a voice-activated autonomous work assistant, has raised $4.6 million in a Seed round led by US VC Florida Funders,
The capital injection is earmarked for product development, as well as sales, marketing and hiring effor... |
| Jul 24, 2017 | The 'Rock' Dwayne Johnson Makes an Entertaining Action Ad Promoting Apple's Siri
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| Feb 20, 2015 | Viv, Built By Siri’s Creators, Scores $12.5 Million For An AI Technology That Can Teach Itself | The company behind Viv, a powerful form of AI built by Siri’s creators which is able to learn from the world to improve upon its capabilities, has just closed on $12.5 million in Series B funding. Multiple sources close to the matter confir... |
| Sep 29, 2011 | Mobile Voice Search App Dragon Go! Updated: A Glimpse at iPhone 5? | Mobile voice search app Dragon Go! recently pushed out a major upgrade to its iOS app, which lets you verbally request more multimedia content, retrieve information from more sources and interact with Google Plus. The app now integrates wit... |
| Mar 6, 2011 | The Coolest Tech Tour Ever: A Look At How SRI Is Augmenting The Human Condition | Editor’s note: the following is a guest post by Robert Scoble, who studies tech startups and innovators for Rackspace Hosting. His videos usually go up on Rackspace’s Building43. In the post he shares a tour he recently got of SRI Internati... |
| Jan 17, 2011 | Report: iPhone 5 will be “Completely Redesigned” | This summer, Apple is expected to launch its next iPhone, and new reports describe it as a “completely redesigned handset” as well as a “total rethink from a design standpoint.” To start, the iPhone 5’s internals will be different – the dev... |
| Jan 10, 2011 | Get Ready to Bump, Wiggle and Talk to Your Phone to Pay for Things | Bump, the mobile app that lets you share information with other people by bumping your phones together, announced tonight that it now has 25 million iPhone and Android users and has raised $16 million from hot investors Andreesen Horowitz, ... |
| Jan 3, 2011 | Apps for your New Year's resolutions | Quit being such a flake and achieve your goals this year with these apps
It’s that time of year when we make New Year’s resolutions we have no intention of keeping. We’re always strong right out of the gate, but at some point along the way,... |
| Oct 7, 2010 | 33 ways to make your app a hit: VentureBeat’s Discovery Directory | As app stores multiply and the number of publicly released apps — just the ones we can see and count — approaches 1 million, content developers are having a hard time standing out from the crowd.
That process is known in the app world as di... |
| Aug 24, 2010 | “The Age of Assistants”: The View From Inside SRI | Five years ago, “social” was the next great paradigm, and sure enough, today social is everywhere and everything is social. Facebook’s most recent announcements capitalize on this ubiquity and position the company as the hub of a system wit... |
| Jul 12, 2010 | MobileBeat: MyTalk introduces a smarter social mobile network | MyTalk is one of 20 promising startups included in the MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition, and is in the running for one of two coveted Tesla Awards.
At first glance MyTalk may just look like another location-based social mobile network. T... |
| Jul 12, 2010 | MobileBeat: MyTalk introduces a smarter social mobile network | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
MyTalk is one of 20 promising startups included in the MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition, and is in the running for one of two covete... |
| Jul 9, 2010 | New Apps for Your iPhone: July Edition | There are some 225,000 mobile applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, and counting. How on earth do you find ones that are actually worth using? You could use a recommendation service like AppsFire (itself a nifty little iPhone app too), ... |
| Jun 3, 2010 | Location 2012: Death Of The Information Silos | Editor’s note: The following is a guest post written by Robert Scoble, who travels the world for Rackspace interviewing tech geeks for building43.com. He’s one of the most popular (stalked) users of location-based services and has 8,215 fri... |
| Apr 28, 2010 | Confirmed: Apple Buys Virtual Personal Assistant Startup Siri | On the heels of the report that Apple purchased chip maker Intrinsity, Apple appears to have made another purchase: Siri, a personal assistant for the iPhone. According to a pre-merger notification released by the Federal Trade Commission, ... |
| Apr 28, 2010 | Silicon Valley Buzz: Apple Paid More Than $200 Million For Siri To Get Into Mobile Search | How much did Apple pay for the acquisition of Siri, the maker of a mobile virtual personal assistant app? Apple won’t say, and neither will the company or its investors. I spoke with two Siri board members today, and neither would go near t... |
| Mar 19, 2010 | Weekend Fun: New Apps for Your iPhone | As one of ReadWriteWeb’s iPhone users, I’m always looking for new applications to try out. Some get downloaded for a day and then deleted right away, others slowly inch their way closer to my homescreen. Even rarer are the ones that become ... |
| Mar 19, 2010 | Siri Hires Mobile Expert Gummi Hafsteinsson Away From Google | We haven’t heard all that much from Siri, the venture-backed startup that is working on virtual assistant applications for smartphones.
Still well below most people’s radar, the company raised $24 million in venture capital and recently rel... |
| Mar 16, 2010 | BizSpark Accelerator Finalists: Our Pick for ‘Most Innovative Web Technology’ | Today at the South By South West festival in Austin, three finalists competed in the Microsoft BizSpark Accellerator finals in the “Innovative Web Technologies” category.
The companies, RecycleMatch, Siri and Skimble argued their positions ... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | Siri's IPhone App Puts A Personal Assistant In Your Pocket | After nearly a year in development and $24 million in venture capital, Siri is finally ready to bring its personal assistant to the iPhone. Siri brings a conversational interface to the iPhone which allows you to ask it to perform tasks for... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | Siri launches an iPhone personal assistant that actually works | The “personal assistant” label gets attached to a lot of websites and applications, but it’s always an exaggeration. Usually the service in question can only tackle a small slice of what a human assistant would do, such as organizing your e... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | Siri launches an iPhone personal assistant that actually works | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The “personal assistant” label gets attached to a lot of websites and applications, but it’s always an exaggeration. Usually the servic... |
| Feb 4, 2010 | Siri: Your Personal Assistant for the Mobile Web | Siri is one of the most ambitious mobile services we have seen in the last few years. Imagine if you could just talk to you phone and tell it to call you a taxi, reserve a table at your favorite restaurant or tell you what the weather in Ne... |
| Nov 24, 2009 | Siri raises $15.5M more for virtual personal assistant | For those of you awaiting the next generation of personal assistants, San Jose startup Siri, who’s product aims to be a virtual personal assistant (VPA), has just raised $15.5 million in round two funding from Menlo Ventures and Morgenthale... |
| Nov 24, 2009 | Siri raises $15.5M more for virtual personal assistant | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
For those of you awaiting the next generation of personal assistants, San Jose startup Siri, who’s product aims to be a virtual persona... |
| Aug 12, 2009 | Siri partners with True Knowledge to enhance its "personal assistant" iPhone app | Artificial intelligence company Siri has struck a deal with natural-language question answering platform True Knowledge to power direct questioning in its upcoming “next-generation personal assistant” app for iPhone.
Cambridge-based True Kn... |
| Jul 18, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Apple App Store Stats, The State of Adobe AIR, Book Publishing Revolutions, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze the continuing popularity of Apple’s App store, question the longevity of AIR apps, investigate the waves of changes happening in the... |
| Jul 12, 2009 | Siri: Virtual Personal Assistant Prepares For Debut | Siri has been getting a lot of hype over the past year. It’s an as yet unreleased product that aims to be a “Virtual Personal Assistant” (VPA). At the recent SemTech conference in San Jose, I sat down with two of the founders of Siri: Dag K... |
| May 27, 2009 | Sneak Peak: First Video Demo Of Siri Virtual Assistant | Earlier today, a startup called Siri that wants to bring virtual assistants to the iPhone came out of stealth. Siri brings a very advanced collection of technologies (speech recognition, natural language processing, semantic data processing... |
| May 27, 2009 | Siri: A Powerful Virtual Assistant For The iPhone | Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Nova Spivack, CEO of of Radar Networks, the company behind Twine
A new paradigm for using the Internet is about to begin: Virtual Assistants (VA’s) are coming to a mobile device near yo... |
| Nov 20, 2008 | 10 More Semantic Apps to Watch | In November 2007, we listed 10 Semantic apps to watch and yesterday we published an update on what each had achieved over the past year. All of them are still alive and well – a couple are thriving, some are experimenting and a few are stil... |
| Oct 13, 2008 | Shadowy government project spins off Siri to help direct your affairs | Conspiracy theorists will love this one: A computerized assistant that can help you manage your day to day life, built atop an artificial intelligence platform developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the United S... |
| Oct 13, 2008 | Semantic Stealth Startup Siri Raises $8.5 Million | We have met our share of secretive startups over the years, but few have been as secretive about their plans as Siri, which was founded in December 2007 and did not even have an official name until today. Siri was spun out of SRI Internatio... |