Tagged: Email/Messaging

Consumers go digital to control and filter brand interaction
Web-savvy consumers are turning to technology in order to filter and control their relationship with brands.

Apple bites multi-billion losses as Steve Job resigns
Steve Jobs has resigned from Apple's top job, causing Apple stocks to drop by 5 per cent and the company's value to depreciate by £10 billion.

New Lift app by Twitter creators 'unlocks potential'
Co-founder of Twitter, Biz Stone, yesterday announced a new partnership between The Obvious Corporation and a mysterious new self-improvement app named Lift.

Skype expands empire to include group messaging
Skype acquires year-old group messenger start-up GroupMe.

Mountain View's mad men secretly trial new Gmail ads

While Google's techs secretly trial infinite scrolling for web search, Mountain View's mad men have been quietly testing new Gmail ad formats.

Facebook guns for Google+ with "awesome" new Skype deal
Mark Zuckerberg's gunned for Google's fledgling social network Google+ by announcing an "awesome" new Skype deal that will bring video chat to Facebook.

Shortmail cuts email down to size
Hailed as 'Twitter for email', Shortmail keeps conversations to a 500 character minimum and introduces social features to the electronic communication workhorse.

Google set to miff Microsoft with Skype-like software
Mountain View and Microsoft could be set to rumble as Google seems to be building Skype-esque software into Chrome, just weeks after Microsoft bought the video conferencing firm for $8.5 billion.

Skype falls flat for the second time in two weeks
The popular internet phone and messaging service has fallen flat for the second time in less than two weeks.

Yahoo launches new email service integrating social media and SMS
Yahoo! removed the beta status of its new Yahoo! Mail service today. This revamped service pulls in social networking features, text messaging and external apps.