Boxer App Has Some More Ideas About Fixing Mobile Email

Boxer, a new iPhone app for managing email, launches today, with some tweaks that may appeal to some — and to others may seem like just more email.
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Does the iPad Merit Its Own Email App? Meet Birdseye.

Would email suck less if it were pretty, large-form and swipable?
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Q&A With Mailbox CEO Gentry Underwood on the Launch of His Much-Hyped App

Mailbox wants to help triage email and eventually become “the port city of the mobile world,” says Gentry Underwood.
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Just.me App Wants to Be a Switchboard Operator for All Your Messaging Needs

Do you use WhatsApp, Path, Instagram, Evernote, Facebook, Twitter and a billion more apps? Just.me thinks it could just be your one and only.
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Twitter Acquires Social Summary Tool Summify

Twitter has acquired Summify, a small start-up that smartly aggregates links shared by users’ friends on social networks.
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Xobni Promises New Set of Apps Will Be “Smartr”

Xobni is trading one slightly awkward but endearing brand for another — Smartr — as it prepares to launch its contact management tools as a set of apps made by itself and other companies.
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Topify Shuts Down, the Latest to Blame Twitter Developer Relations

Topify, a free service that embedded richer information into Twitter email alerts, will shut down on August 5, its creator announced.
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SendGrid CEO Isaac Saldana on Why Email Is Hardly Dead Yet (Video)

Of all the things pundits like to declare the death of, email is way up there. But the popularity of email delivery service SendGrid indicates that the medium isn’t dead yet.

Assistly Extends Customer Service to Facebook Walls

Assistly helps small businesses provide Web-based customer service and support with a platform that combines more traditional methods like email, chat and phone with Twitter and, as of today, Facebook.

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RIM Buys Contact Manager Gist

RIM has bought the contact management start-up Gist in a deal that was first reported by GigaOM late last year. The Seattle-based company raised approximately $11 million from investors including Foundry Group and Vulcan Capital. Through various Web plug-ins and mobile apps, Gist helps users generate a united living contact list from email, social networks and mobile phones. It’s one of those things that’s hard to describe but much loved by avid users.

Facebook Moves Could Disallow Apps From Running Google Ads

NudgeMail Can Now Control Your Google Calendar

Do You Check Facebook or Email First Each Day?

Interviewing Jane McGonigal on Gamification for Good

TripIt Travel Planner Bought by Concur for $82 Million-Plus

Web Commerce Isn't Really Social…Yet

Salesforce Buys Small Contact Management Start-Up Etacts

Google Social Researcher Jumps Ship for Facebook

PayPal Introducing "Social Way to Shop"

What Facebook Messages Means and Why You Should Care

Aro Offers a Parallel Universe Where Mobile Apps Work Together

Watch as Eric Schmidt Tries to Train His Foot to Stay Out of His Mouth

Live from Facebook's Email Messages Launch

Hey Facebook, This Launch Better Not Be Boring