LinkedIn to display course suggestions from Lynda Business networking giant LinkedIn has started using data around which jobs are most popular among its users, to suggest videos to help train in related careers from Lynda.com, reports re/code. The company has currently created course recommendations for 53 careers and plans to double this number by next year. Note that users will require a Lynda account to see the recommendations on LinkedIn for now. LinkedIn had purchased online tutorials and training platform Lynda.com for $1.5 billion in April last year. *** Kik rolls out bot store for all developers Kik, the messaging app, has rolled out a bot store. Kik already offered some bots to its users but will now offers the technology to any developer that wants to build a bot within the app. The app will approve each bot before it is admitted into the store. At launch, the store had 16 bots including from brands like The Weather Channel and Twitter’s Vine. Note that just last month, Outbrain had launched chat bots for Telegram, Kik and Slack. Similarly, TechCrunch launched an artificial intelligence news bot on Telegram, powered by Chatfuel. **** Practo ties up with Twitter for @AskPracto Practo has tied up with Twitter to launch a Twitter handle called @AskPracto, which will enable users to get responses to their queries to doctors, reports the Mint. Users can ask questions by tweeting which doctors will reply to in real time via the Practo Consult platform. The service is currently…
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