It's par for the course that major tech platforms will launch a lot of services, then sunset those that are less popular. But this week comes one that especially smarts (for me and some of my ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More San Francisco startup Rapportive already offers a lightweight way to ...

Reinventing the email experience is an area numerous startups have tried to tackle over the years, with some apps focused more on triage, others on making a better desktop alternative to Outlook, and ...

The best collaboration technologies immediately fit into the flow of your work and improve or streamline it in some way. I've been running Rapportive, a Firefox or Chrome plugin that displays useful ...

Firefox/Chrome: Sure it's nice and all that we get Gmail for free, but those ads to the right of open messages aren't really all that helpful. Free browser add-on Rapportive replaces Gmail ads with ...

Big news for a little company: after rumors cropped up earlier this month that Rapportive, the Gmail plug-in that lets you see information and social media updates on your contacts, was acquired by ...

Rapportive makes a browser plug-in for Gmail, which displays the social networking details for an individual if he/she is corresponding on e-mail. In short, a user can directly view the ...

When we check out Gmail, most of us have learnt to ignore the right-hand panel with advertisements. What if those messages were replaced with something more useful, like an online profile of the ...

What if every time someone sent you an email you were automatically provided with a few basic facts about that person as well as links to their profiles on various social media sites? Or consider the ...

The universal deployment of Gmail's new compose experience seems to have come at the expense of Rapportive, perhaps its most useful plugin. Rapportive connects addresses entered into the “to” field ...

Everybody knows the old saw, "It's not what you know, it's who you know." But, do you really know who you know? Probably not as well as you'd like. Between pocketing business cards, filling up your ...

One of the startups that pitched the crowd last week at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam, and whose co-founder Rahul Vohra myself and the other jury members crowned the best presenter of the bunch ...