Hannah Dixon is a six-figure-earning virtual assistant coach and recruiter. She says it’s important to understand that virtual assistants are business owners, not employees. Dixon says that virtual ...

3Virtual assistants are on the rise. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there are nearly four million assistants in the United States alone, and entrepreneurs are relying on them more than ...

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 ...

Russian search giant Yandex has unveiled its virtual assistant Alice. Like Alexa or Siri, Alice provides users with directions, weather forecasts and news as well as incorporating access to other ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is rolling out a virtual assistant for veterans enrolled in the Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E) program, (formerly known as Vocational Rehabilitation and ...

Samsung is allegedly working on its new virtual assistant called Sam. Unlike Bixby, the company's previous virtual assistant, this new version is a 3D (3-dimensional) character. Previously, Apple's ...

She's "smarter than she's ever been" and is rolling out next month, Amazon announced today. The best part? Alexa Plus is free for Prime members. Corin Cesaric is a Flex Editor at CNET. She received ...

Cigna is introducing an AI-powered virtual assistant to help members get their questions answered during health insurance interactions. The generative AI tool that Cigna calls more than a chatbot, ...

It is Monday morning. In a Denver office, the phone rings – a client is calling from Osaka. The phone is answered promptly and courteously by a virtual assistant working from her home in Manchester, ...

A team at the TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 hackathon has created what they say is one of the first personal assistants for the WhatsApp messaging platform. Called WhatsBot, the assistant uses a ...