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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LinkedIn has acquired the email start-up company Rapportive, its CEO announced Wednesday in a blog post. Rapportive, a service that links with Gmail to show you the most recent social network updates ...

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 ...

Rapportive is a plugin for Firefox, Safari and Chrome that adds a sidebar to your Gmail messages, inserting data pulled from Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and elsewhere, as well as giving you room to ...

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 ...

If you're trying to guess the email address of someone, you don't really have a lot of options other than trial and error. However, tech site Digital Inspiration ...