Messaging Weekly: The week's conversational commerce news, apps and opinions

We've been following conversational commerce quite a bit over the last year and find ourselves curating and thinking about apps and news on the subject a lot on our team's Slack. Thought I'd share some of what we're reading and thinking about with you all every week so that we can start a broader dialog around it. Would love to have you on board, if you're interested. You can also follow us on Twitter @messagingweekly and send in your thoughts, notable apps and news that you think we should mention. This week, we're still reeling from the announcement that Parse is shutting down and wonder about the implications for how businesses think about platform risk on Facebook Messenger. Would love to hear your thoughts so that we can collect them all and share them next week. Hope you enjoy 😀