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Navigator, the new project from the creators of Mailbox, launches with $12M

4:24 pm PDT • June 20, 2019
Meet your new chief of staff: An AI chatbot

Gentry Underwood is the co-founder of Mailbox. In our 12th episode, we talk on design being a “we” vs an “I” issue, how to be your most productive self, and discuss…

Mailbox founder Gentry Underwood on productivity, collective intelligence and building a $100M email app
Startups

A Eulogy For Dead Standalone Apps

12:12 pm PST • December 9, 2015

Session lengths started to be counted not in hours or even minutes, but in seconds. Software had to blend into our life, augmenting it rather than supplanting it. Speed and…

A Eulogy For Dead Standalone Apps

Dropbox, the file hosting and cloud storage company with 400 million users, has been struggling to hold up its $10 billion valuation in the face of scrutiny from investors and observers, and…

Failing To Find Users, Dropbox Will Shut Down Mailbox In February 2016 And Carousel In March

When you consider yourself a pro at something, but it’s mainly because you have a great tool to help you, what happens when that tool breaks? I got to find…

Mailbox Suffers Outage Due To ‘Unprecedented Demand’

Mailbox, the ultra-awesome email client owned by Dropbox, is making its way onto the desktop. By doing so, it’ll be coming full circle and providing a seamless user experience on…

Mailbox Finally Brings Its Email Client To The Desktop, Adds Drafts And Syncing Between Devices

For many users, the desktop productivity app probably never fully went away. Anyone who uses Microsoft Exchange for email or calendaring, or Microsoft Word as their word processor, can tell…

The Return Of The Desktop Productivity App

Dropbox has made another acquisition: Predictive Edge, a startup that had built a way to personalise e-commerce offerings, along with dynamic pricing, for marketers to send out to users and…

Dropbox Buys E-Commerce A/B Testing Service Predictive Edge, Shuts It Down

Mailbox 2.0 for iOS is here and brings a hosts of enhancements and goodies. Chief among the additions is auto-swipe, a feature that launched first on Mailbox’s new Android app.

Mailbox Brings Latest Features To Its iOS App

A year after acquiring mobile-first email management iOS app Mailbox, today Dropbox launched Mailbox for Android, and previewed a beta version for desktop. It also showed off a new “Auto-swipe”…

Dropbox Launches Mailbox For Android With Auto-Swipe, Previews Mailbox For Desktop

A new application called BlinkMail, launching into beta today, offers Mac users a different way to manage their email inbox from their desktop. Though competing in the same general space as other OS…

BlinkMail Brings A Mailbox-Like Email Triage Experience To Mac Users

Dropbox acquisition Mailbox has expanded from its single service roots with support for Yahoo Mail, iCloud, Me.com and Mac.com accounts. Previously, the client supported only Gmail inboxes, making its audience…

Dropbox Makes Mailbox More Service Agnostic With Support For Yahoo Mail And iCloud

Need to do some homework on who you’re emailing? You could search their name on Google, Facebook, or LinkedIn, but on mobile that’s a lot of taps, and it’s hard…

Ark Launches Rapportive-Meets-Mailbox Email App In Pivot To Marketing Intelligence

In an interview backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013, Mailbox founder Gentry Underwood said that the company is actively working on an Android version of the app, and mentioned that…

Evomail, one of the many newer startups trying to rethink the email inbox for mobile, has now arrived on Android. Originally designed as a Gmail client for iPad, the service…

Evomail’s Gesture-Based Email App Arrives On Android

Dropbox-owned Mailbox has just added a couple of nice features, including the ability to search all of your Gmail messages in the cloud and locally on your device. Previously, you…

Mailbox Adds Cloud Search For Gmail And Opens Links In Chrome

Baydin, the startup behind a suite of productivity add-ons for Gmail, Outlook, and Google Calendar, is today bringing its inbox management solution Boomerang for Gmail to the mobile platform. With…

No Mailbox? No Problem. Boomerang For Android Brings Gesture-Based Email Management To Gmail Users

Sometimes, when a truly innovative startup is acquired by a larger company, innovation slows to a crawl. And other times, when an acquisition happens, a company gets the backup and…

Two Months After Acquisition, Mailbox Launches Its Email Management App For The iPad

The quick adoption of Mailbox only came after the team behind it spent years developing and iterating on a productivity app called Orchestra. In a conversation backstage at Disrupt NY…

Gentry Underwood On How The Overnight Success Of Mailbox Came From Years Of Working On Orchestra

Tylr Mobile today announced WorkinBox, a new mobile email inbox for salespeople connected to Salesforce.com. WorkinBox matches incoming email with CRM data to help sales people prioritize and focus on messages…

Tylr Mobile Launches An Email Inbox For Salespeople That Connects To Salesforce.com

Mailbox launched to much fanfare earlier this year. Heralded as “the best email management app you’ll ever use”, iOS users virtually lined up to try the app. It was a…

Gentry Underwood, CEO And Co-Founder Of Mailbox, To Speak At Disrupt NY

On Friday, Dropbox’s acquisition of Mailbox marked the first time the tech community lit up in amazement and awe of a consumer transaction since Facebook acquired Instagram back in April…

Iterations: The Improbable, Captivating Pivot From Orchestra To Mailbox

Disrupt alumnus Dropbox made the second in a series of super-savvy, super-early stage acquisitions today, picking up hyped-up email management app Mailbox in an acquisition that we’re calling “DropMail.” We…

Mailbox Cost Dropbox Around $100 Million

Dropbox has acquired Mailbox, the popular email app for iOS devices, in a deal the terms of which weren’t disclosed. The companies reported the deal to the Wall Street Journal…

Dropbox Buys Mailbox, All 13 Employees Joining And App Will Remain Separate

Since launch just a few weeks ago, email management app Mailbox has been a pretty big hit — so big that more than 1.25 million people have signed up for…

Just 3 Weeks After Launch, Mailbox Is Already Delivering 50 Million Messages A Day

Mailbox, the email inbox management app for iPhone that was released in beta this week, currently has around 700,000 users queuing up for access, at the time of this writing.…

Mailbox’s Virtual Queue Succeeds In The Waiting Game Where Peter Molyneux’s Curiosity Stumbles

If you’re one of those who have been waiting to try Mailbox, your wait could soon be over, as the app is going live in the Apple App Store. While…

Email Management App Mailbox Goes Live In The App Store, Begins Filling Reservations

Mailbox, the awesome new email management app from the productivity software experts at Orchestra, is getting ready for a public launch. But rather than just putting the app up on…

Email Management App Mailbox Launches A Reservation System, Will Roll Out To The Public On A First-Come, First-Served Basis

Every now and then, I get my hands on an application or a piece of technology that I can’t wait to tell the rest of the world about. Something that…

From The Makers Of Orchestra Comes Mailbox, The Best Email Management App You’ll Ever Use
Hardware

Apple PowerMac G4 Mailbox

11:00 am PDT • September 28, 2007

This is one impressive use of an old PowerMac G4 to say the least. If I didn’t live in NYC, I’d be super-tempted to gut my PowerMac G3 tower I…