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VirtuOz, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) for online marketing, sales, and support, today announced the company was named to Lead411’s “Hottest San Francisco Company” list. 

VirtuOz, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent virtual agents (intelligent virtual agents) for online marketing, sales, and support, today announced that Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, has extended the mission of Lena, its VirtuOz IVA, to online sales. By integrating Lena into its online retail operation, Kaspersky Lab can now provide personalized sales assistance to customers 24/7.

First IBM’s Watson beat Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Then Apple captivated mobile consumers with the iPhone 4S, which included an enhanced version of Siri, the voice-driven assistant born at Menlo Park, CA-based SRI International. Suddenly, the idea that computers might be just as good as humans at carrying out certain types of requests seemed a lot less far-fetched.

For companies trying to win corporate and consumer adoption of their own NLP technologies, this is a long-awaited moment. And one of the firms that thinks 2012 could be the year this market really takes off is VirtuOz VirtuOz, Inc., a Paris-born company that moved its headquarters to Emeryville, CA, in 2009.

VirtuOz, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) for online marketing, sales, and support, today announced the company has been selected as a winner of the Best in Biz Awards, taking gold in the Best New Service of the Year category.  Hundreds of entries were received in this year’s awards program from an impressive array of public and private companies across multiple industries, sectors and regions.  The winning companies represent the best in American business.

VirtuOz, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) for online support, today announced the availability of its marketing and sales IVAs.  Already a leader in virtual agents for support with the largest number of live enterprise intelligent virtual agents for the Global 2000, VirtuOz now offers a full suite of enterprise-class IVAs, enabling companies to create digital customer relationships and to engage with today’s online consumer across all transactions. 

In addition, VirtuOz revealed Chloe, the company’s new virtual agent for online marketing.  Using VirtuOz’ cloud-based solution and best practices, Chloe not only answers questions about the virtual agent market, the company, its products, services, and customers, she also represents VirtuOz’ unique brand.  She is designed to address the needs of prospective customers, partners, investors, and even job applicants and will serve as a showcase for virtual agent best practices as she continues to learn. 

VirtuOz, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) for online marketing, sales, and support, today announced the company has partnered with Moxie Software. The partnership brings together the leaders in virtual agents and Web customer support to deliver a next generation customer experience solution.

Created by VirtuOz, this intelligent animated character appears on the home page of the site, providing a human-like interface between users and the Michelin brand. The Michelin Man is the first world-famous brand icon to interact with users in this way.

Chatting in both English and French, Michelin’s two official languages, and programmed to converse on around 10,000 topics each month, this intelligent virtual agent answers questions about the Michelin Man as well as the company, while also helping visitors to find their way around the site.

VirtuOz, the leading provider of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) for online customer service, today announced that Numericable, a major cable and high speed Internet provider in France, debuted Emilie, an intelligent virtual agent powered by VirtuOz, as a new and contemporary online support channel. Available on Numericable’s website support page, Emilie provides a high quality support experience 24/7 to Numericable’s subscribers while also freeing their live agents to focus on higher value support and service activities.

VirtuOz., the leading provider of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) for online customer service, today announced the company has been selected as a winner of the Tech Awards Circle, taking Bronze in the Enterprise Service category. Winners were selected by an independent circle of publication reviewers/journalists from nominations based on a broad range of achievements – from product and technology innovations to talented executive leadership and engineering innovators.

Tech Awards Circle celebrates the products, services, vendors and individuals making a difference in the industry today.  The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange, and enterprise markets.  Gold, silver and bronze awards were given out in each category.

VirtuOz, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) for online customer service, today announced that Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, celebrates the first anniversary of Lena, an intelligent virtual agent powered by VirtuOz, to provide world-class online customer and technical support.