Tag: bots

BNY Mellon deploys bots to cut costs, increase efficiency

BNY Mellon deploys bots to cut costs, increase efficiency

Written by on May 11, 2017 in News with 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Bank of New York Mellon Corp has developed and deployed automated computer programs, or more than 220 “bots”, across its businesses over the past 15 months seeking more efficiency and lower costs, as the adoption of artificial intelligence technology in banking increases. The 233-year-old custodian bank says its new army […]

Continue Reading

Amazon is winning the price tracking race with clever bots

Amazon is winning the price tracking race with clever bots

Written by on May 10, 2017 in Features with 0 Comments

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Earlier this year, engineers at Wal-Mart Stores Inc who track rivals, such as Amazon, online got a rude surprise: the technology they were using to check Amazon.com several million times a day suddenly stopped working. Losing access to Amazon.com Inc’s data was no small matter. Like most big retailers, Wal-Mart relies […]

Continue Reading

The problem of deploying bots for bots’ sake

The problem of deploying bots for bots’ sake

Written by on October 26, 2016 in Opinion with 0 Comments

It seems as if we have suddenly become obsessed with bots (good definition here). Everyone with a customer service operation or a social media channel seems to be rolling out their bots like there is no tomorrow. Yet, the objective is not the bots being rolled out, in the context of an ‘AI, VR, machine […]

Continue Reading

Advertising rife with robots and fraud

Written by on July 2, 2015 in Snippets with 0 Comments

Half of all online ads are never seen by a human being, huge amounts of traffic and clicks come from bot networks, and fraud is rampant. The media industry has no shortage of things to worry about. Audiences are going elsewhere, whether it’s to social networks like Facebook or digital-only competitors such as BuzzFeed, and […]

Continue Reading

Top