Meet Alice, the Microsoft Cortana-based AI chatbot who aims to make you look stylish ZDNet

Her name is Alice and she's designed to help you decide what clothes and accessories suit you best. At the recent IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona, she was busy making recommendations about men's suits and women's party dresses via Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Skype, SMS, and webchat. Bismart, the Catalan company behind the digital assistant, is a Microsoft Worldwide Partner with a background in big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applied to marketing. With 50 employees, it expects to close the year with a turnover of €3m ($3.32m), 50 percent up on 2015. "We've just opened a new office in Singapore, where we anticipate a turnover of up to €500,000 in the first year," says Albert Isern, CEO of the company.