Hi! I'm your trading bot. I can buy and sell shares in an S&P 500 index fund based on the rules you set for me — in other words, your algorithm.

Microsoft Research, its Developer Experience team and its Applications and Services Group are all building out pieces of the company's evolving bot platform. Here's what's under the hood.

Want to build your own IM bot? For a fee, technology start-up ActiveBuddy will let developers use its software to build bots that send information alerts over instant messaging services.

At its F8 developer conference, Facebook unveiled a new Messenger platform that allows developers to build bots inside Facebook Messenger. Bots are hot; they could even be the future. At its a ...