| Date | Title | Description |
| 02.07.2014 | Yahoo Does A “Summer Cleaning,” Shuts Down Its Xobni Acquisition, Plus Other Under-Performing Products | Yahoo’s spring cleanings have extended into the summer months, the company announced today, detailing a series of product changes and closures, many of which are nearly obsolete, obscure, or just unpopular. But among the more high-profile o... |
| 29.12.2013 | Top 10 apps of 2013 for entrepreneurs | Entrepreneurs are the artists of the business world — captivated by ideas and the never ending pursuit of the potential—the what if. If 2013 has taught entrepreneurs one thing, it’s to focus on the passion behind the art and leave the menia... |
| 29.12.2013 | Top 10 apps of 2013 for entrepreneurs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Entrepreneurs are the artists of the business wor... |
| 13.07.2013 | Yahoo! Acquires Xobni | Xobni, a San Francisco, CA-based company that provides a solution to make the inbox and address book smarter, has been acquired by Yahoo!(NASDAQ: YHOO).
The transaction amounted to approximately $48m, reports said.
Created in 2006 and led b... |
| 03.07.2013 | Thanks, Oohay! Inbox spelled backward means $30M for Xobni | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Yahoo has acquired e-mail inbox sanity provider X... |
| 03.07.2013 | Xobni Was Acquired For More Than $60 Million | So email management startup Xobni was acquired by Yahoo today, the company officially announced on its blog. Initial reports said the company was acquired for “upwards of $30 million” but TechCrunch has learned that total consideration for ... |
| 03.07.2013 | Thanks, Oohay! Inbox spelled backward means $30M for Xobni | Yahoo has acquired e-mail inbox sanity provider Xobni for $30 million to $40 million. Xobni announced the acquisition on its blog today — as well as the fact that it will not accept any premium product purchases going forward.
Xobni has pro... |
| 17.06.2013 | Yahoo! Reportedly Offers $30M to $40M For Social Email Startup Xobni | Yahoo! is offering to purchase social email startup Xobni for $30 million to $40 million, according to AllThingsD’s sources. If the deal goes through, Xobni would be the latest acquisition by Yahoo! as CEO Marissa Meyer seeks to boost the c... |
| 23.04.2013 | Dropcam CEO's Beef with Brogramming, Late Nights, and Free Dinners | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Dropcam, a four-year-old startup in San Francisco, has never lost an employee. I’ll say that again so that you won’t think it’s a typo: no one who has taken a job at Dropcam h... |
| 21.03.2013 | Boxed In: The Tech Industry’s Fascination With Corrugated Cardboard | Why do so many tech companies have so much trouble thinking outside the “box?”
Sure, the right catchy name for your startup or app can make all the difference in cutting through the noise and finding success. And coming up with an original ... |
| 19.10.2012 | Brewster: The Smart Contacts App That Wants To Rule Them All, Now Conquering Europe, Too | Brewster, the relationship-centric iOS address book app that went live in the U.S. in July with some fanfare (and a little controversy for good measure), is picking up some more steam. On the heels of an app update earlier this month, this ... |
| 04.03.2012 | Everything, Everywhere, All The Time | The web is a blessing and a curse: there is simply too much information. And it’s coming at us too quickly. Meanwhile, the tools we have to process the data flow are failing miserably, and yet, very few people are building us better ones. I... |
| 27.02.2012 | Social Email Contact Manager Xobni Raises $10 Million From ‘Commercial’ Partner | Social email startup Xobni, the social email plugin that makes your inbox smarter, has raised $10 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing. We confirmed the new round with the company. This brings the startup’s total funding to $4... |
| 24.01.2012 | Xobni Brings Contact Manager Smartr To The iPhone | As we reported last September, Xobni rebranded its email contact manager Smartr and launched Android and Gmail apps out of private beta. Today, Xobni is debuting the iPhone version of Smartr.
The Smartr Cloud automatically extracts all cont... |
| 05.01.2012 | Contactually surfaces the most important relationships in your inbox | Your love-hate relationship with email could skew more toward the love end of the spectrum in the new year if one startup has anything to say about the matter.
Contactually launches Thursday to help email senders better prioritize their act... |
| 05.01.2012 | Contactually surfaces the most important relationships in your inbox | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Your love-hate relationship with email could skew... |
| 22.11.2011 | What most of us will be doing on holidays: Checking our work email | The holidays are a time for good food, gathering with loved ones, frantic trips to overcrowded malls and paid time-off from work — well almost. A majority of the U.S. workforce will be checking their work email over holidays this year, acco... |
| 22.11.2011 | What most of us will be doing on holidays: Checking our work email | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The holidays are a time for good food, gathering ... |
| 22.11.2011 | 68% of adults plan to check email over the holidays | Americans may check their work email as much as they check the turkey
Since more people take their work wherever they go, namely in the form of a smartphone, the holidays can seem like less of a retreat from work than it is an absence of be... |
| 22.11.2011 | Xobni Survey: Nearly 70 Percent Of You Will Check Email Over The Holidays | Last year, we wrote about email software company Xobni’s survey that showed that going completely offline from email over the holidays is a thing of the past. And this year’s survey from Xobni reports that even more adults will be checking ... |
| 27.09.2011 | Xobni Rebrands Its Product Smartr, Launches Contact Manager For Android And Gmail | Xobni always was a clever name (it’s Inbox backwards), but perhaps it was too clever. Today, the startup that tries to make your email smarter is rebranding its newer products Smartr and launching them out of private beta for Android and Gm... |
| 26.05.2011 | Does Gmail’s People Widget spell trouble for email startups? | Google announced a new feature for Gmail today called the People Widget, which includes social details about whoever you’re corresponding with right alongside your emails.
If the concept sounds familiar, that’s probably because startups lik... |
| 26.05.2011 | Gmail's 'People Widget' Takes On Rapportive, No Browser Plugin Required | It’s probably not a good sign that I’m this excited about an email widget, but there you go.
Google has just announced that it’s rolling out a new feature over the next week called the People Widget — a small sidebar to the right of email m... |
| 04.05.2011 | How to improve your Outlook inbox | Outlook is a great and powerful way to manage your email, but there are plenty of ways you can improve on Microsoft’s product.
If you’re managing a start-up then you’re most likely regularly talking with dozens of different people – potenti... |
| 04.05.2011 | Xobni launches new Outlook app store | Xobni, makers of the popular Outlook extension that allows users to search through their entire email inbox and archived items, has launched a new app store.
The Xobni Gadget Store will allows users to choose from about 20 apps to install i... |
| 03.05.2011 | Xobni’s new gadget store could make it the gateway to Outlook | Social email service Xobni just announced the launch of what it’s calling the Xobni Gadget Platform and Store, which will bring services like Dropbox and Evernote into Microsoft Outlook.
San Francisco-based Xobni was among the earliest and ... |
| 03.05.2011 | Xobni Makes Your Outlook Inbox Smarter With New Gadget Store | Xobni, the social email plugin that makes your inbox smarter, is going to make your Outlook email more productive today with the launch of a Gadget Store with apps from collaboration and productivity services such as Dropbox, Evernote, JIRA... |
| 03.05.2011 | Access Gadgets & Apps Through Outlook with New Xobni Platform | Xobni is launching a gadget platform and app store that allows you to run third-party apps in Outlook.
It is fairly robust. Xobni is launching with a number of services. Application partners include Dropbox, Yammer, Atlassian, Salesforce.co... |
| 21.03.2011 | 4 Signs of a Great E-Mail App | The apps that get pitched to us cover granularities you never really thought of before. It puts you into a certain state of mind, constantly asking yourself:
Is this useful? Am I missing something?
To be fair, a lot of these apps have speci... |
| 18.03.2011 | Xobni Is Coming To Gmail, Android, And iPhone (100 Beta Invites) | Ever since Xobni launched at the first TechCrunch 40, it’s been about Outlook and then Blackberry. But those of us who use Gmail also want to make our inboxes smarter. Today, Xobni is launching aprivate beta for Gmail, and will soon also la... |
| 18.03.2011 | SMB Tech Roundup: Twitter Grows Among Businesses, Plus a A Few New Productivity Tools | Keeping up with every tech headline is hard enough for anybody, let alone busy professionals. To help, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week’s most important tech news and insights for small- and medium-sized businesses.
As tablet adoption grows,... |
| 16.03.2011 | Plaxo Goes Back To Being A Smart Address Book, Launches Virtual Assistant | Plaxo has had its fair share of ups and downs. Back in 2006, the company famously wrestled with spamming allegations and was later the subject of controversy over the screen scraping techniques it used to pull contacts from Facebook. (Which... |
| 12.02.2011 | Why Starting Justin.tv Was A Really Bad Idea, But I'm Glad We Did It Anyway | Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Justin Kan, founder of Justin.tv.
Right now I’m neck deep in product launch mode, putting the finishing touches on our new mobile video application—Socialcam. Of course, I’ve been here ... |
| 31.01.2011 | Silentale ditches contact management and launches SocialReplay | Social CRM startup Silentale used to be called the “Dropbox of communication.” It used to compete with the likes of Xobni, Gist and Rapportive. But those days are over. Starting today, Silentale will be ending its former contact management ... |
| 20.01.2011 | Startupbootcamp launches in Madrid. Next up: London and Berlin. | Is it just me, or is everyone and their mother talking about startup accelerators these days? I seriously feel like we’re in some kind of Paul Graham era. Y Combinator-made startups like Dropbox, Xobni, Loopt, AirBnB, WePay, etc. have gotte... |
| 06.12.2010 | Top 10 Enterprise Products of 2010 | This year enterprise 2.0 went from being a fringe idea to being mainstream as CIOs started asking “how?” instead of “why?” Big name vendors entered the marketplace with new products and existing vendors released new versions with innovative... |
| 23.11.2010 | What you need to know - Tuesday 11/23/2010 | MyThings raised $6M; Better Advertising Product $9.5M; Stoke $16M; Welocalize $34M
Rumors abound about a potential buy out of Nuance Communications, a voice technology company, by Apple. The rumors began after comments were made by Apple co... |
| 23.11.2010 | Survey Says: More Than Half Of You Will Be Checking Your Email Over The Holidays | We know that email has done away with the nine to five job but does anyone ignore emails over holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving anymore? A new study by email software company Xobni suggests that going completely offline from email ov... |
| 04.11.2010 | Huddle Puts Its Big Funding Round To Work, Begins To Revamp Core Feature Set | Earlier this year Huddle, a UK-based company that offers collaborative workspaces as a service, closed a $10.2 million funding round. And it’s putting that money to work: it’s tripled its engineering staff over the last few months, and its ... |
| 01.11.2010 | Instant Karma? Rent Twitter's Original Office | While the tech scene may be booming in the Bay Area right now when it comes to hiring, the real estate scene is not. But with Zynga about to move into a massive new office and Twitter currently looking for a new bigger space, the former cou... |
| 26.10.2010 | Xobni launches its famous Outlook plugin en français | Part of the YCombinator class of 2006, Xobni only recently launched its first non-English language version in German after partnering with the German Linkedin, Xing. Yet, given the high number of French users, the company has decided to mak... |
| 12.10.2010 | Xobni Brings Gmail Gadgets to Outlook | In May, email management company
Xobni
introduced
a new platform
which allowed developers to port their
contextual Gmail gadgets
to Outlook. Using the APIs (application programming interfaces)
provided by Google
, third-party developers wer... |
| 12.10.2010 | Xobni gives Microsoft Outlook users more enterprise options | Xobni, which provides users with a customized version of Microsoft Outlook with advanced search options, announced today it is launching a new line of plugins for Microsoft Outlook users that will let them see previews of images, videos and... |
| 02.09.2010 | Email Overload Means We're Never Not Working | A new study by email software purveyor Xobni confirms what we bloggers know to be true, there’s actually no such thing as a day off in the Internet age (Want more visceral proof than an email study? Check out the timestamp of this post).
In... |
| 23.08.2010 | Rapportive’s “Social CRM” Gmail Plugin Makes E-mail Social Again | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This is the fifth in a series of profiles of companies emerging this summer from Mountain View, CA-based startup incubator Y Combinator.
When Google launched Gmail five years ... |
| 16.08.2010 | Tixe, "Exit" Spelled Backwards: Co-Founder Matt Brezina Has Also Left Xobni | Back in June, Xobni co-founder Adam Smith wrote a blog post announcing he was moving on from the company, and handing over the CTO reins. We’ve just confirmed that fellow co-founder Matt Brezina has also left the company.
The timing of Brez... |
| 06.08.2010 | Bubble Alert: Xobni's Spending Money On A Mural | On the heels of the as of yet unprofitable Demand Media IPO filing, it looks like email software purveyor Xobni (that’s Inbox spelled backwards) has decided to spend money on a mural. And an elaborate one at that. While the rest of the coun... |
| 02.08.2010 | Gmail creator backs ‘anti-Xobni’ Gmail add-on Rapportive | San Francisco startup Rapportive announced today that it has enlisted a long list of well-known investors as part of a seed round of more than $1 million. Given Rapportive’s aim to provide relevant information about your contacts in Gmail, ... |
| 16.06.2010 | Xobni goes retro, selling boxed version in retail stores | With Microsoft Office 2010 launching in retail stores this week, Forrester analyst JP Gownder has said that the popular productivity suite is shouldering “the defense of packaged software in general.” Here’s one sign that he’s right: Social... |
| 16.06.2010 | Xobni Goes Back In Time With Boxed Software | Social email startup Xobni is channeling Microsoft today. The company is now selling the premium version of its product, called Xobni Plus, which the company rolled out last year, in a number of stores. The boxed software, which will be fea... |
| 02.06.2010 | Roundup: Google homepages get personal, Xobni gets new CTO and more | Here’s the latest action:
GSI Commerce sinks $40M in to FetchBack — The e-commerce solutions provider has invested heavily in FetchBack, a service that continues to show web surfers advertisements and messages related to online retailers ev... |
| 24.05.2010 | Tony Blair to Advise Silicon Valley Green-Tech VC Firm Khosla Ventures | Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is joining Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Khosla Ventures as a public policy advisor for the firm’s green-tech investments, according to a press release from the firm today. Founded by Vin... |
| 20.05.2010 | Xobni launches German version, partners with XING | Xobni, the popular Outlook plug-in for searching and managing contacts in Microsoft Outlook, is launching a German verion. It makes sense. German speakers are their second biggest set of users according to the company.
The move is the first... |
| 20.05.2010 | Social email startup Xobni going global, starting with Germany | Xobni, an email tool that provides social network data about your contacts, today announced its availability in Germany as well as a partnership with Xing, a business social network popular in Germany according to the company. The expansion... |
| 20.05.2010 | Social email startup Xobni going global, starting with Germany | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Xobni, an email tool that provides social network... |
| 18.05.2010 | Xobni Puts Gmail Gadgets Into Outlook | Earlier today, Google announced a new Gmail API that allows developers to create contextual gadgets for Gmail. Google itself uses this API so that when somebody sends you a link to a YouTube video in an email, the video gets embedded right ... |
| 18.05.2010 | Xobni Creates Development Platform for Gmail & Outlook | Xobni, the contacts- and email-management company, is using the Gmail API we reported on earlier today, to create a developer platform for killing two birds with one stone. Using Xobni, developers will be able to make contextual gadgets for... |
| 18.05.2010 | Gist brings social email data into Gmail | Updated
Gist, one of a growing number of startups that provide social and real-time data about your email contacts, is expanding its reach by announcing new integration with Gmail. Now users can use Gist to view their contacts’ social netwo... |
| 15.04.2010 | Social email helper Xobni raises $16.2M in new funding | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Xobni, a software plug-in that helps users see so... |
| 15.04.2010 | Social email helper Xobni raises $16.2M in new funding | Xobni, a software plug-in that helps users see social connections in their email, is raising $16.2 million in new funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The company confirmed the news and said that Khosl... |
| 15.04.2010 | Khosla And RRE Lead $16.2 Million Series C In Xobni | Xobni, a social Microsoft Outlook plugin, has just raised $16.2 million in funding from Khosla Ventures and RRE Ventures, with Baseline Ventures, Atomico Ventures, First Round Capital, BlackBerry Partners Fund and Cisco participating in the... |
| 23.03.2010 | SenderOK: Email as a Facebook Connector and Social CRM Catalyst | The effort to bring Facebook into the enterprise continues with more services using Outlook as a gateway to extend a contact network and use as a foundations for a CRM environment.
SenderOK is one of the latest effiorts to give more context... |
| 23.03.2010 | DEMO: Network Hippo organizes contacts, sends alerts to keep you networked (video) | Network Hippo is one of 65 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2010 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective.
Network Hippo, provider of softw... |
| 17.03.2010 | Gist Acquires Startup Weekend App 'Learn That Name' | Every few weeks (and sometimes even more often than that), dozens of techies gather together for regional Startup Weekends — fast-paced code writing frenzies where entrepreneurs and developers conceive of and build a new application in less... |
| 16.03.2010 | Xobni Mobile brings its social email plugin to your BlackBerry | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Xobni, a plugin that gives users more social context in their emails, is coming to BlackBerry smartphones today with the launch of two ... |
| 16.03.2010 | Xobni's BlackBerry App Is Just An Excuse To Sync Your Contacts Through Xobni One | It took almost a year, but Xobni finally released its email app for the Blackberry. It works as a standalone app integrated with the email on your Blackberry, but similar to Xobni’s Outlook plugin, it ranks your contacts by importance and p... |
| 16.03.2010 | Xobni Mobile brings its social email plugin to your BlackBerry | Xobni, a plugin that gives users more social context in their emails, is coming to BlackBerry smartphones today with the launch of two new services — Xobni Mobile and Xobni One.
Both services seem like smart moves for the company. There’s t... |
| 03.03.2010 | How to Prepare for Conversion and Optimization | The best way to reduce bounce rates and design a path of least resistance for members and customers is to offer something they want. While others prioritize member acquisition in order to build an early product test case, Sean Ellis has a s... |
| 19.02.2010 | Why No Love for the Universal Inbox? | A couple of years ago, the new launch from Webwalks, a universal inbox, news aggregator, password manager and kitchen sink-type application would have caught my eye. I’d rush out to try it, merging my multiple accounts under its one roof th... |
| 17.02.2010 | No escaping social email: Facebook and MySpace coming to Outlook | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Microsoft announced a lot of progress today with ... |
| 17.02.2010 | Microsoft Outlook Is Starting To Look Like A Poor Man's Xobni | As we first reported on Friday, Microsoft is adding some social hooks into Outlook 2010. Outlook will gain the ability to pull in profile information, photos, and update streams from LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace. You can try the LinkedIn... |
| 17.02.2010 | No escaping social email: Facebook and MySpace coming to Outlook | Microsoft announced a lot of progress today with its Outlook Social Connector, which brings social network data to the inboxes of people who use the popular email program. Outlook’s integration with LinkedIn, which was launched November, is... |
| 15.01.2010 | Xobni (S06) takes over Twitter's old offices | You can measure the success of a start-up in square footage.
Just ask Xobni.
A few weeks ago, Xobni moved into Twitter’s old offices in the South of Market area of San Francisco. With 30 employees, it could no longer squeeze into the offi... |
| 15.01.2010 | Xobni (S06) takes over Twitter’s old offices | You can measure the success of a start-up in square footage.
Just ask Xobni.
A few weeks ago, Xobni moved into Twitter’s old offices in the South of Market area of San Francisco. With 30 employees, it could no longer squeeze into the offi... |
| 16.11.2009 | Xobni Updates Its UI, Gains Monetizable Extensions | Tonight, Xobni is selectively allowing users to download a new version of its client with a number of UI enhancements. This launch coincides with Xobni’s new Salesforce extension. This is notable because it marks the launch of premium exten... |
| 10.11.2009 | Blackberry Developer Conference: It’s All about the Apps | At yesterday’s Blackberry Developer Conference, several companies announced major updates to their applications and services designed for Blackberry smartphones. From Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) came new geolocation, advertisi... |
| 01.11.2009 | Xobni launches an enterprise version of its improved email inbox | Xobni, the company that improves Microsoft’s email application Outlook by showing you more data about your contacts, is aiming for bigger and bigger customers — it just announced an enterprise version, which includes new features like integ... |
| 01.11.2009 | Xobni launches an enterprise version of its improved email inbox | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Xobni, the company that improves Microsoft’s emai... |
| 29.09.2009 | Xobni Brings Twitter To Your Inbox | Earlier tonight, Xobni quietly released, at least to some users, a new version of its Outlook plug-in that brings Twitter streams into your email in an intelligent way. Instead of acting like any other Twitter client and showing you the ful... |
| 23.09.2009 | DEMO Names Two Winners For Top Media Prize: Emo Labs And Liaise | DEMO Fall has just announced the winners of its media prizes, who will each receive $500,000 in free advertising across IDG’s publishing properties and a number of sites including VentureBeat.
The winner of the ‘Enterprise’ category is Liai... |
| 15.09.2009 | Personal Relationship Manager Gist Launches to Public | When we first looked at the personal relationship manager Gistback in October of last year, we were intrigued. Here was an online service that had a real purpose: to help you make sense out of your email’s data. Gist does this by analyzing ... |
| 10.09.2009 | TechStars Debuts Nine Startups In Boston | Editor’s note: The following report comes from Don Dodge, who blogs at Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing and is a business development executive for Microsoft. TechStars is a startup accelerator program that selects about ten companies and pr... |
| 31.08.2009 | Gwabbit becomes profitable on sales of contact automation software | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gwabbit is announcing today that it hit profitability in the month of August thanks to sales of its software, which automates the colle... |
| 31.08.2009 | Gwabbit becomes profitable on sales of contact automation software | Gwabbit is announcing today that it hit profitability in the month of August thanks to sales of its software, which automates the collection of contact information.
Gwabbit made a splash earlier this year at DEMO 2009 when it showed off sof... |
| 15.07.2009 | Would You Pay for Advanced Email Search? Xobni Thinks You Will | Xobni, the makers of an Outlook add-in for a “smarter inbox,” have just released a slew of new premium features in a package called “Xobni Plus.” For the most part, these new features aim to bring more advanced search tools to your inbox, i... |
| 14.07.2009 | Xobni Decides To Start Making Money, Launches Premium Upgrades For Your Smarter Inbox | Xobni, a startup that looks to make your inbox a little less chaotic, is well known for walking away from an acquisition offer from Microsoft last year, not long after being publically complimented by Bill Gates. Since then the service has ... |
| 19.06.2009 | What’s next: a Mint for your physical location? | I don’t mean to scare you, but there’s a faceless entity that knows you better than your friends, your spouse, and even you: your technology. As the Internet and phones weave into your life, they know your purchases, tastes, friends, messag... |
| 18.05.2009 | All My Mail: A Smarter Inbox For Your iPhone | I’ve made no secret of my dissatisfaction with the iPhone’s built-in mail client, which omits basic features like search that makes navigating through any sizable inbox nearly impossible. Things are going to get much better with the release... |
| 11.05.2009 | Y Combinator's ReMail Finally Brings Full-Text Email Search To The iPhone | I love my iPhone, but I’ve always harbored some contempt for its built-in Email application. Not because of the occasional message download issues and display quirks, but because the iPhone’s Email application has absolutely no search funct... |
| 30.04.2009 | Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) | It’s been just one month since email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app. Xobni executiv... |
| 27.04.2009 | Xobni brings Facebook streams into Outlook | More and more communication is moving to social networking services like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. The migration is so pronounced that Facebook Era author Clara Shih and many others argue these sites are becoming our new email inboxes... |
| 27.04.2009 | Feed Me: Xobni Going Live With Full Facebook Stream Tonight | With the news that Facebook is going to begin allowing developers to incorporate full streams into their applications, developers are scrambling to get their apps up to speed. This morning we got our first look at the upcoming new version o... |
| 25.03.2009 | Xobni, raises more cash and comes out of beta | Outlook plug-in, Xobni, raises an additional $3 million in funding and opens to everybody
Outlook plug-in, Xobni, has announced it’s raised over $3 million in additional Series B funding. This extra money comes from the BlackBerry Partners ... |
| 24.03.2009 | Email startup Xobni leaves beta, raises $3.2M | Updated
Xobni is finally launching the “official” version of its plug-in that improves organization in Microsoft’s email program Outlook — in other words, it’s finally taking off the beta testing label it’s used for the past 10 months. It’s... |
| 17.03.2009 | Y Combinator set to fund more startups | Seed-stage investment fund is going to Party like it's 2009
Y Combinator, a seed-stage investment fund, announced this week that it raised $2 million from Sequoia Capital, and angel investors.
The fund, which has invested in 40 startups per... |
| 16.03.2009 | Y Combinator gets a $2M shot in the arm from Sequoia, angels | Seed-stage venture firm Y Combinator is branching out in its funding strategy today, raising about $2 million from Sequoia Capital and a handful of angel investors. Previously, the firm was funded solely by founders Paul Graham, Robert Morr... |
| 14.03.2009 | Facebook's Dave Morin On The Search for a More Social Web; Connect Comes To The iPhone | We’re here at SXSW, where Facebook’s Senior Platform Manager Dave Morin is speaking about The Search for a More Social Web.
He says that computers have largely been antisocial – it was only with the advent of the computer that we’ve been pl... |
| 02.03.2009 | DEMO: Gwabbit launches automated email contact manager | Contact managers are ripe for a makeover. As such, Technicopia is announcing a tool called Gwabbit today at the DEMO 2009 conference that could take the tedium out of updating your email contacts.
It’s arguable that this has already been do... |
| 19.01.2009 | Lotus Notes Soon To Become Even More LinkedIn | LinkedIn has partnered with IBM to create a new plugin that integrates its professional social network into Lotus Notes, a popular business desktop client that includes Email, calendar, and IM functionality. The plugin is making its debut t... |
| 06.01.2009 | Outlook plugin lands funding from Cisco | Xobni lands $7 million in Series B financing
Xobni, known for its popular Outlook plug-in, has announced its landed $7 million in Series B financing.
Existing investors include Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, and At... |
