2016 was the best year ever for chatbots and their popularity is showing no signs of abating. Improvements in artificial intelligence, the vast quantities of data accessible via the Internet and the support of technology giants of the likes of Facebook and Google all combined to create the ideal conditions for their boom.
Medium and large companies normally have technology strategies in place. These support connections with vendors, with clients, intranet systems, CRMs, and so on. But these different corporate tools may lack coherence and the proper support. Or worse: they may not be completely interchangeable.
For some years now, APIs have been the great catalyst of change in business organizations. And that is essentially, thanks to its capacity to generate new business models and increase their profits.
Liverpool airport offers its passengers the option of searching for flights using the Skyscanner API without leaving its own website. This way, passengers can find the lowest airfares for flights departing from Liverpool.
Instagram is currently the fastest growing social network. After years maintaining a simple business model, it has given way to advertisers, businesses and other organizations.
Twitter’s API contains a set of APIs that can be combined to create an application for your business so you can benefit from the data offered by this social network, as well as the option of creating automatic tweets.
Facebook Instant Articles is one of the market's leading solutions for quick loading of mobile content and improvement of user experience. Content creators have been choosing this proposal for quite some time but... how can they monetize it?
Nowadays, most businesses have a technology component, although nobody would say that their company is technological because it uses e-mail or mobile phones. The same applies to APIs and tools that enable your company to operate.
Slack, the communication platform for companies, integrates different services into a single messaging application, all thanks to its API. Any developer can use it to create a bot that responds to the user’s requests by means of a chat. It already has an army of these small programs and the family continues to grow.
Amazon (cloud services), eBay (eCommerce), Square (mobile payments) and BBVA (bank) all have application programming interfaces for sending notifications, each one with their own outlook, market and goals.
