While the appeal of chatbots and conversational commerce is undeniable, I’m highly skeptical about their future in bot stores built on existing messaging platforms such as Messenger, Kik, Telegram, ...

If Facebook announces the “Messenger Bot Store” at F8, as many predict, it would be arguably the most consequential event for the tech industry since Apple announced the App Store and iPhone SDK in ...

Kik is officially the first messenger app out of the gate with its own bot store, which the company believes will be critical to the success of not only its future; but the future of all messenger ...

The SEO poisoning bot, capable of full system takeover, is actively taking over social media accounts, masquerading as popular games like Temple Run. A backdoor malware that can take over social-media ...

It seems like barely a day passes without some notable mention of chat bots in the tech industry. Now one of North America’s most used chat apps has jumped on the wagon after Kik, the billion dollar ...

The speed at which studios contacted Pocket Gamer since the lid was lifted on App Store bot farms is not only evidence of the strength of feeling that surrounds the issue, but also the length of time ...

News that iOS developers are being approached by 'bot farms' firms offering to download apps en masse in order to score them a place in the App Store's top 25- has only just hit the headlines, but ...

A malware named Electron Bot has found its way into Microsoft’s Official Store through clones of popular games such as Subway Surfer and Temple Run, leading to the infection of roughly 5,000 computers ...