Yahoo confirms that it’s buying Xoopit
Yahoo just published a blog post confirming yesterday’s reports that it plans to buy Xoopit, the startup that adds social and media-sharing tools to email .
What’s the reasoning? Well, if Yahoo’s post is to be believed, this deal is all about photos:
With the integration of… Continue Reading
Report: Yahoo acquires Xoopit; will Yahoo Mail get even more social?
Yahoo is about to acquire Xoopit, a startup that brings social tools into email programs like Yahoo Mail and Gmail, for $20 million, according to multiple press reports.
The Wall Street Journal and BoomTown (both owned by Dow Jones, incidentally) have reported on the deal —… Continue Reading
Xoopit syncs Gmail with Facebook status updates: Neat, but useful?
Here’s a new way to get social context about your friends while you’re busy with email. Xoopit, a company that makes a Firefox browser add-on for Gmail, now also lets you both update your Facebook status while in Gmail and see your friends’ status updates… Continue Reading
How big an opportunity is the external memory?
Before the advent of the written word, the story goes, humans had to either store all their memories in their own heads, or by oral tradition passed down through designated members of their tribes. With trade came notation of facts and figures, and later alphabets,… Continue Reading
Come see The Dark Knight a day early
Perhaps you’ve heard of a little film called The Dark Knight. It’s the sequel to Batman Begins and it’s opening this Friday in theaters. As a little treat to our VentureBeat readers we have 20 tickets to give away to a screening of the film the… Continue Reading
Xoopit continues to supercharge Gmail with new media search as Zenbe flies solo. Who’s gonna win?
Two young web-mail startups, Zenbe and Xoopit, have set out to rewrite the rules of web-mail. They see today’s leading web-mail services as dinosaurs, mired in the bureaucratic inertia of the sluggish internet titans that control them.
And they might be right. Sure, in major overhauls… Continue Reading
Xoopit adds social components to email, connects your email media to the web
Xoopit wants to help you more easily distribute your photos, videos and files — and taps into your social network through your email account to do so.
The San Francisco-based company is in private beta, and it has a few components. It’s a plugin for Firefox… Continue Reading
Four startups ready to change the face of email
In ten years, an internet eternity, web-based email has only made token improvements, moving from Hotmail to Gmail. Meanwhile, instant messaging and social networks have rapidly developed.
Four new startups, all of which came out of secrecy this year, point toward a bright new future for… Continue Reading