Tag: Customer service

Kustomer Lands $30M Series B to Scale AI Agents for Smarter Customer Support

Kustomer has secured a $30 million Series B funding round led by Norwest, with continued investment from Battery Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Boldstart Ventures. This fresh capital will fuel the company’s ambitious AI product roadmap, accelerate platform innovation, and support...

This Week in CX: Retail, Travel & Healthcare Get an AI Upgrade

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news. This week, we’ve explored how AI-driven innovations and strategic partnerships are reshaping customer experience, healthcare, travel, and retail to deliver smarter, faster, and more impactful results. We’re also discussing...

ASAPP Levels Up Contact Center AI with New Accuracy and Trust Tools

ASAPP has unveiled major updates to its flagship product, GenerativeAgent—an AI voice and chat agent designed to handle complex, multi-step conversations. With this expansion, ASAPP offers tools that strike the right balance between automation at scale and the human oversight...

Alvaria and CallMiner Just Made Contact Centres a Lot Smarter

Alvaria has entered into a strategic partnership with CallMiner to elevate customer experience and drive business impact through AI-powered insights and automation. This collaboration integrates Alvaria’s outbound engagement and compliance capabilities with CallMiner’s advanced analytics and conversation intelligence platform. The two...

This Week in CX: When AI Delivers, and Institutions Fall Behind

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news. This week, we’ve explored how AI is reshaping customer experience across sectors, from drive-thru automation and lagging loyalty programs to growing public sector frustrations and the rise of...

This Week in CX: Formulas for Success and Workforce Friction

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news. This week, we’ve explored how retirement plans are getting reshaped, why is F1 such a big deal, and how can employees actually keep their productivity and heads up...

Toyota Tops UK Car Customer Service Rankings

Every business wants to do well in customer ratings, but in a public-facing market, a good ranking can boost sales. Toyota is the highest ranked automotive organisation in the UK for customer service and trust. That’s according to the July UK...

AI Copilots Are Saving Support Teams Thousands of Hours in 2025

According to the 2025 Customer Service Benchmark Report by Freshworks, AI in customer service has become a business-critical tool. The data shows that 32% of customer service practitioners already use AI, while 47% of companies that haven’t yet adopted AI...

Crescendo Integrates Amazon Nova Sonic to Deliver 24/7 AI-Powered Voice Support

Crescendo has unveiled a breakthrough in voice automation. By integrating Amazon’s Nova Sonic foundation model, designed specifically for advanced speech recognition and generation, Crescendo now provides businesses with fully automated, human-like voice support across all customer touchpoints. With this new capability,...

This Week in CX: AI Phishing, Impulse Buys & the Frustration Economy

Happy Friday! ‘This week in CX’ brings you the latest roundup of industry news. This week, we’ve explored how Gulf brands are using AI to slash costs while boosting CX, why mobile users are hitting their limit in the frustration economy, and...