Notion launches a standalone calendar app

Does the world need more calendar apps? That’s the first question that came to my mind when I heard that Notion, the incredibly popular note-taking and project management service, was launching a st

Amie brings your email inbox to its calendar app

There’s a reason why some people are die-hard Microsoft Outlook fans. It brings together your emails, your calendar events and your contacts in a single app. But . . . it’s Outlook. And some p

Why videos of $500 beauty advent calendars are flooding TikTok

Are you in the right headspace to receive information that could possibly hurt you? Dior sells an advent calendar for $4,200. It comes with white-glove delivery. And there’s more where that came fro

Productivity platform ClickUp acquires calendar startup Hypercal

Tiger Global and a16z-backed productivity company ClickUp has acquired the calendar app Hypercal to boost its platform offering, TechCrunch has learned. As part of the acquisition, the app’s fou

Hey is feuding with Apple again — this time over a calendar app

Basecamp founders’ email service Hey is fighting with Apple again — this time over the rejection of its new calendar app from the App Store. Apple’s reasoning is similar to when the Cupe

Gmail brings in Calendly-style availability sharing from Google Calendar

On Tuesday, Google released new scheduling-related features for Gmail with Google Calendar integration, including quick event creation and easy availability sharing. Gmail will now have a calendar ico

TechCrunch Space: Returning to the moon

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Mark your calendars, everyone: Boeing and NASA are planning to conduct the first crewed Starliner mission as soon as May 1.

Vimcal raises $4.5 million to expand its team offerings

Vimcal, a YC-backed calendar app, has raised a $4.5 million seed round from Altos Ventures to expand its team and enterprise offerings. The company, founded by CEO John Li, launched its iOS app and Ou

Amie grabbed $7 million for its opinionated calendar and todo app

Amie raised a $7 million seed round led by Spark Capital. The round closed in June 2022 and the startup is disclosing it today. The company is building a productivity app anchored around your calendar

Vimcal wants be the most nifty calendar app on the block

Y Combinator-backed company Vimcal thinks creating an event takes too many steps in the current crop of calendar apps. So the company has made a calendar app that lets you create and edit events in ju

Chrome on iOS to get built-in Lens support, along with new Maps and Calendar integrations

Google announced today that Chrome on iOS is getting a few new features, including built-in Lens support that will allow users to search using just their cameras. Although you can already use Lens in

Google Calendar now allows users to take paid appointments

Google Calendar has launched a new feature that lets professionals or freelancers allow their customers to book paid appointments. This could be useful for people such as therapists or teachers provid

Notion acquires privacy-focused productivity platform Skiff

Update February 15, 11 AM IST: After the acquisition announcement and user feedback, Skiff said that instead of a six-month sunset period, it will have a 12-month sunset period.  “We understan

Floworks is building an AI assistant to change how workers interact with software

About the time that Floworks co-founders Sudipta Biswas and Sarthak Shrivastava were starting at Y Combinator in the Winter 23 cohort, they had a chat with veteran investor Vinod Khosla, who encourage

Encrypted email service Proton Mail gets its own desktop app

Proton Mail finally has a native desktop app, rolling out now in beta for some users on Windows and MacOS. The encrypted email service has, of course, been available to desktop users since its incept

Google Calendar now lets users specify where they’re working from throughout the day

Google has allowed users to set their working location for certain days of the week since 2021, but is now also going to give users the option to specify where they’re working from for specific port

Google is integrating Assistant and Calendar reminders with Tasks

In its latest step of the app cleanup drive, Google is folding in Assistant and Calendar reminders in its Tasks app. The company wants to make it easier to manage your tasks and reminders from any of

Zoom’s adding email and calendar as it pushes harder to expand the platform

At the height of the pandemic Zoom was the go-to application for meetings with people stuck at home in lockdown. During FY 2021, the company was growing at an unsustainable triple-digit rate, peaking

Beams helps product teams shine a light on the work that matters most

Beams’ co-founders Jana Schellong and Mihri Minaz see a fundamental problem with how product teams work. While they have productivity tools that are supposed to help them work smarter, too often the

Tinder-inspired Cala dares you to swipe left on useless meetings

Move over, meat market and, um…hello, meet market. A two-person team made some waves this week with Cala, a web app they’re marketing as “Tinder for canceling meetings.” The fr
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