Virtual assistant jobs have existed since the 1990s, becoming more well-known in the 2000s with advancements in email, cloud computing, and remote work tools. They became even more mainstream after ...

Christina Jane became a virtual assistant as an undergrad, after working part time for Amazon. She continued to work as a virtual assistant when she moved to Ghana for grad school. These are her four ...

Mary Carrasquillo is a 23-year-old virtual assistant on track to earn six figures this year. As a virtual assistant, her tasks include scheduling and sending invoices. Here are the top 11 digital ...

Virtual assistant companies are pretty popular in the work at home community right now, and it's easy to see why. Demand for people with the comprehensive administrative skill-set needed for these ...

Virtual assistants can elevate the customer experience. Here’s a primer on the different virtual assistant types and how they can best assist your customers. Customers today expect more from the ...

Julie Desk, a French startup that’s developed an AI-driven “virtual assistant” to automate the scheduling of meetings, appointments, and more, has picked up €2.5 million in new funding — money it ...

Chatbots and other assorted bots are clearly on their way to becoming our eternal BFFs. Every day we are talking more and more to some sort of machine learning AI, demanding answers or pithy ...

Why Alexa, Siri, Cortana and others are being ushered into more workplaces, and how its changing the way things are getting done. Typically, virtual assistants like Amazon's Alexa have been widely ...

As a tech journalist, I’m no stranger to negotiating over meetings. With endless requests to meet for coffee, lunch or the quick phone briefing, there’s quite a lot of email back-and-forth to pin down ...