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Clay, a startup that’s something of a personal CRM, as it’s designed to help people manage their own relationships — including those with friends, family, colleagues, industry peers and more…

Personal CRM app Clay adds an AI helper to help you navigate your relationships

Flexibits, the company behind productivity apps Fantastical and Cardhop, is releasing a new version of Cardhop for both macOS and iOS. This is the second major version of the app…

Flexibits updates contacts app Cardhop, adds deeper integration with Fantastical

A third-party contacts app you’re not using may be handing out your home address to its users. In November, former Yahoo CEO and Google veteran Marissa Mayer and co-founder Enrique…

Sunshine Contacts may have given out your home address, even if you’re not using the app

Apple is closing a loophole that allowed app developers to access users’ potentially sensitive and private data. With the launch of iOS 13, apps that request access to users’ Contacts…

With iOS 13, Apple locks out apps from accessing users’ private notes in Contacts

Ever since our contact lists moved out of Rolodexes and onto our smartphones, mobile app developers have been trying to improve upon the built-in – and typically, very basic –…

LogMeIn Co-Founder Debuts Caret, An Address Book That Tells People If You’re Available To Chat

An application called Accounts, live now on iOS to start, is a new attempt at developing a universal address book. While many competitors that have gone before it have focused…

Accounts Launches A New Address Book For iOS That Tracks Your Many Identities

If you’re still in search of a better Contacts application than the one that ships on your phone, a newly launched gesture-based app called Mingle might catch your attention. This…

Mingle Debuts A Gesture-Based Contacts App For iPhone

Cobook, the scrappy startup out of Latvia which grew its universal address book application to over a million users, is being acquired by FullContact, a larger Denver-based operation also working…

FullContact Acquires Cobook To Build A Better Universal Address Book

For anyone who’s had to text a friend for another friend’s phone number — so, all of us — Dubb is an app that lets users request contact information from…

Dubb Wants To Expand Your Address Book By Connecting You With Friends Of Friends

Cobook, a Mac contact management app that made its way over to the iPhone back in December, is today launching version 2.0 of its service which introduces a new feature called “Livecards.”…

Cobook 2.0 Arrives, Bringing An Auto-Updating, Universal Address Book To iPhone

Cardign (pronounced like the sweater) is a new app for iPhone launching today from a Toronto-based startup. The app has a neat little trick, since it uses facial recognition via…

Cardign Launches A New Way To Network With The iPhone Via Image Recognition

Cobook, which has long offered a contact management app alternative to Mac OS X’s default address book, is today finally available on mobile with the debut of its iOS application. Like…

Cobook Brings Its Unified Address Book To iPhone

Cobook, a Mac contact management app which offers an improved experience over the default OS X address book (at least, that’s a popular opinion), has released an update today which introduces a…

Cobook, A Better Address Book For Mac, Now Syncs With Google Contacts

Deets is a newly launched mobile app that lets you organize your contacts and keep everyone’s information up-to-date automatically, but that description alone sells it a bit short. This new…

Deets For iOS Keeps Contacts Up To Date Automatically, Lets You Share Files, Photos & More

Brewster, the hot, new personalized address book app for iPhone, launched to much fanfare this week. But it also launched with a concerning bug. Some users reported they had the…

Brewster’s Address Book App Briefly Exposes Ashton Kutcher’s & Others’ Private Data; Company Says It’s Fixed

The mundane Address Book was big news this week due to the privacy fiasco, but here’s a post about an impressive address book app with a different approach to privacy.…

Cobook, A Slick Address Book App That Doesn’t Upload Your Data

The controversy that began last week with mobile startup Path being exposed for downloading users address books from their mobile device exploded over the weekend. Nick Bilton at the New…

Mobile Address Book—Much Heat, Little Light