Michael Rizkalla, the former senior director of webOS application development at HP, has just started at Xobni, where he will be its senior director of mobile applications. It’s the latest exodus from the webOS team as HP contemplates what to do with the mobile operating system. Read More »
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Adam Smith, co-founder of San Francisco-based Xobni is hanging his hat and leaving the company. He is giving up his position as the chief technology officer to Peter Monaco, formerly of TellMe. The company has raised $30 million in funding from Khosla Ventures and others. Read More »
Earlier this month Google preannounced a feature that would allow apps to embed themselves directly into email messages called “Gmail Contextual Gadgets.” That previews a future where email is rich, dynamic and integrated with services across the web — AKA an app platform. Read More »
Freemium -– a business model that works by offering basic services for free but charging for premium features — is being viewed as the new way to do business in startup land. It has its champions and its detractors. But if you want to make it… Read More »
While web-based companies like Facebook and Twitter have yet to operate on earned income, a string of others have adopted the freemium business model, which involves offering a paid premium service in addition to what’s already being offered for free. Venture capitalist Fred Wilson… Read More »
Recession…what recession? In Silicon Valley, the funding torrent continues. Xobni, which is building a social email platform by plugging into existing platforms such as Microsoft Outlook, has raised another C$3 million $3.2 million in funding from the BlackBerry Partners Fund,… Read More »
Yahoo, I’ve learned, is planning to launch a new program that essentially turns its email offering into a platform on which to run applications — much in the same way Facebook does. Users’ address books would act as a social graph, essentially turning Yahoo Mail into… Read More »
What’s in a company name? Plenty. It’s your first opportunity to brand yourself. Get it right and you’ll stand out as clever, useful, and memorable to potential users and investors — even if your product isn’t any good. But get it wrong and you’ll flame out… Read More »
If you’re good at leading people in online games, you’re good at doing it in the real world. At least that’s the theory posited in two studies, one by IBM last year and another, more recent one from Harvard. Both studies noted… Read More »
ClearContext, a San Francisco-based start-up whose Outlook inbox management plugin was recommended by us in the past, has released the beta of their product of ClearContext Personal. It is also a free Outlook add-in that help organize email and inbox management. There are… Read More »
Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a three-part series authored by Xobni’s VP of engineering, Gabor Cselle. Read a longer version (co-written with Marie C. Baca ) on Cselle’s blog starting Monday. I run product development at Xobni, maker of… Read More »
Editor’s note: For the sake of accuracy, we have replaced the edited questions and answers with their unedited version (save for some minor stylistic changes). We sincerely apologize for any confusion. This week Found|READ interviews software entrepreneur Paul Graham, co-founder of the influential startup incubator,… Read More »
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