Text news and trends

Sphere, VisitPay Debut Text To Pay For Healthcare
Merchant Innovation // February 28, 2020

Sphere, a leader in end-to-end payment solutions, will team up with VisitPay, which works with medical patient payment and security, to improve patient payment processes. The two entities launched on Thursday (Feb.27) a mobile payment solution called Text to Pay, which works with healthcare providers...

Groupon Buys AI Tool To Offer Text, Chat Bookings
Partnerships / Acquisitions // August 08, 2019

Groupon has acquired an AI-driven voice and text messaging tool called Presence AI, according to a press release. The tool is meant to enhance a customer’s ability to communicate with a merchant. A study by eMarketer shows that most people, especially millennials, prefer to chat...

Amazon Dips Into IM Market With Anytime Messenger
Amazon Innovations // July 17, 2017

It seems as though there’s no avenue Amazon won’t go down and with the latest news, the eCommerce giant isn’t slowing down anytime soon. Given the popularity of Facebook’s Messenger app, Amazon is dipping its toes into the instant messenger (IM) market with its new...

Unified Inbox Enables Text To Smart Home Communication
Retail // March 14, 2017

Not everyone thinks that the future of the IoT is voice-enabled. While Amazon’s Echo and Google Home square off in the voice-activated marketplace, Apple’s Siri gears up to function in vehicles and PCs, and Samsung shells out $215 million for virtual assistant startup VivLabs, one...

Quick Reads
Alibaba Cloud Unveils AI Models That Understand Visual Content

August 25, 2023
Alibaba Cloud has unveiled two open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models that have the ability to understand both images and text. These models — Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat — were trained on Alibaba Cloud’s large language model Qwen-7B and offer improved image recognition and understanding performance compared to other open-source large vision language models, the cloud computing company […]

Sphere, VisitPay Debut Text To Pay For Healthcare

February 28, 2020
Sphere, a leader in end-to-end payment solutions, will team up with VisitPay, which works with medical patient payment and security, to improve patient payment processes. The two entities launched on...

Groupon Buys AI Tool To Offer Text, Chat Bookings

August 08, 2019
Groupon has acquired an AI-driven voice and text messaging tool called Presence AI, according to a press release. The tool is meant to enhance a customer’s ability to communicate with...

Amazon Dips Into IM Market With Anytime Messenger

July 17, 2017
It seems as though there’s no avenue Amazon won’t go down and with the latest news, the eCommerce giant isn’t slowing down anytime soon. Given the popularity of Facebook’s Messenger...