The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

All your notes, tags, and links are still there in text files. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Notion, on the other hand, stores content in its proprietary database. If Notion shuts down, it won't be as easy.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Google Sheets basically translated the time-tested spreadsheet format popularized by Microsoft Excel into a web app. You can set up records as project management elements like tasks, contacts, projects, pipelines, and goals, and then assign priorities, statuses, deadlines, tags, and assignees.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Xobni “Social plug-in for Microsoft Outlook&# – As Enrique Gutierrez said on Twitter today, Xobni is “ the best damn thing ever for Outlook.&# Here’s the thing. Microsoft was rumored to have tried to by Xobni 2 years ago but apparently Xobni saw too much upside potential and decided to remain independent.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

We have run very successful campaigns by brands such as Sony, NBC, Microsoft, Universal, Clicker and others. bought RightMedia and Microsoft bought AdECN a few years ago. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. Early evidence is good. The CTR’s are performing very well: 1-3.5% with some results significantly higher.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

So if you’re enterprise sales that might mean hiring people from Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce or whatever who have never been at an “unbranded&# startup. Tags: Startup Advice. The next mistake people make is to hire people who have “done it before&# in your field and from a big-name innovator in your field.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

BCG, Bain, LEK – they’re all great), a few years at a start-up or a few years somewhere like Microsoft, Google, Amazon or Apple. Tags: Start-up Advice. MBA fine, but not required. It’s hard to start companies and take risks when you’re $150,000 in debt. Okay, now you can shoot me.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Even Microsoft publicly said that there were security flaws with 5.5 Tags: Startup Advice. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. We had made the decision that we would no longer be supporting IE v 5.5 (we we would support 6.0 which was in beta). Losing sucks.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Even Microsoft publicly said that there were security flaws with 5.5 Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. We had made the decision that we would no longer be supporting IE v 5.5 (we we would support 6.0 Losing sucks.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

He’s ex Microsoft so has real world company experience and he’s knowledgeable about many market areas. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. That wouldn’t surprise me. This round was led by Kevin Spain from Emergence. He’s a guy that I’ve always liked. These are all “billion dollar industries” he says.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. I will continue to look for “lean&# teams, co-investors on deals to help get through any rough patches and entrepreneurs who have the resiliency to make it through whatever the economic conditions throw at us.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund , a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems. The workflow revolves around search and a chronological timeline, allowing users to attach topic tags, tag other users and add recurring reminders to notes.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

The airline has a new electronic bag tag that is making everything about checking a bag easier, Frederic writes. You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc. If you are looking for an easier way to get through the airport, Alaska Airlines is here to deliver. Jaclyn also reports on Rolls-Royce and Hyundai partnering on air taxi hydrogen fuel systems.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The company today announced that it raised $25 million in Series B financing led by Zeev Ventures, with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund) and Vertex Ventures, bringing GrowthSpace’s total raised to $44 million. government agency, Microsoft, Siemens, EY and Johnson & Johnson.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

I distinctly remember being impressed by the possibilities of D&D on an original Microsoft Surface… back in 2009. We can do unique identifiers with tags and custom shapes. The idea is to provide a digital alternative to physical games where that’s practical, and do so with the maximum benefit and minimum compromise.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

Even Microsoft publicly said that there were security flaws with 5.5 Tags: Start-up Advice. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. We had made the decision that we would no longer be supporting IE v 5.5 (we we would support 6.0 which was in beta).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

We also incorporate what we’ve learned from our agency, Bell Curve , which works with Outschool, Imperfect Produce and Microsoft to name a few. To ensure you’re sending relevant emails to the right audiences, segment your audience using tags and filters within your email marketing platform.

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OurCrowd

MAY 26, 2022

The company’s machine-learning platform understands how consumers see webpages and improves its automatic-tagging abilities over time while automatically adapting to website changes. Microsoft picks Maolac and Trellis for AI program. Microsoft for Startups has supported more than 1,000 companies so far.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

People would come and ask questions, and they would put topics on them, and other people would sign up to answer questions, and they would tell us about what they knew about by tagging themselves with these topics, and we would try to route the questions to the people who knew about the particular topic. And it was all manual.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2010

Let’s bring our $5 footlongs to one of the many open spaces that companies and institutions like Sun, Aol, CRESA, NYU/Poly, and Microsoft have been donating to the community for free. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Expensive venues? Pricey box lunches? Not necessary! Don’t just attend your own stuff. -

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Not to be outdone, Microsoft’s Power Fx low-code programming language that it launched in 2018 now connects hundreds of apps. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

About how Microsoft viewed Google Apps. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. I am reminded about how dismissive traditionally television media is about YouTube – even to this day. About how dismissive traditional print was about blogs or the airlines views the “peanut serving&# Southwest Airlines. Sony, the iPod.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

He then served as staff member of the senate judiciary committee under Senator Orrin Hatch and was responsible for leading the hearings on the Microsoft antitrust hearings in the mid nineties during the Netscape vs. Microsoft era. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. You’ll hear this story in the video. Total raised: $19mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. Many may simply hit the wall.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Advertising clients include: Sony, Microsoft, NBC, and Clicker. CEO/President is Karl Siebrecht (ex-Pres of Atlas at AQuantive and ex-GM of ad platform product management, search and display marketing, and mobile and gaming advertising for Microsoft). Tags: Start-up Advice. Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 19, 2010

Yelp just showed its true colors: It’s not a startup anymore, and it will try to crush anyone that gets in its way—Microsoft 90’s style. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. That’s not the kind of place innovators tend to like to work. Undoubtedly, that kind of strategy will actually work against Yelp in today’s ecology.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

DataPop launched its initial Search Marketing application across Google, Microsoft and Yahoo late last year and leading marketers and agencies are seeing breakthrough results. Tags: SoCal Stuff. On average the platform is generating 30+% increase in conversions and 15% decrease in cost per lead.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Competitors: VivaKi (Publicis Groupe) , FatTail , AdMeld , Rapt (part of Microsoft Publishing). Tags: Start-up Advice. Founded in 2009 in San Francisco by David Soloff (ex-Lead Architect of Rapt, which was sold to MSFT in 2008). Competition: Apple iPhone App Store Genius.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Each month over 2 million unique visitors come to our site. Our revenues have increased every quarter for the past two years. We have a deep technology stack.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

Often these were things that would make Salesforce more competitive vis-a-vis Oracle and Microsoft. Tags: Social Media Tech Market Analysis. Salesforce was very good at managing the 1-year roadmap so at any point in time we had a pretty good idea about what we would be developing and what we wouldn’t.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The price tag matters, but how you ensure the customer can afford the product is important too. Partnering with Microsoft. Dell has partnered with Microsoft to offer its business customers more tools and products to maintain efficiency, especially when working from home. Microsoft Teams is truly about collaboration.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Its features include optical character recognition, smart tagging and search, and protection for sensitive data. For example, it creates files that are compatible with Adobe products and is integrated with Google Workspace, Zapier and, in the near future, Microsoft Teams. “In Instead, its solutions are complementary.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you keep all your relationships in one place, then you’ll need to use tags or another identifier to isolate the folks that really matter to you. There’s a lot of value in pulling in all of our correspondents into a CRM, but only if most of them are tagged as “acquaintances” so they don’t make the database unwieldy.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

The 5 best email clients for Mac Apple Mail for a great, free Mac mail app Microsoft Outlook for people who value features over simplicity Spark for improving your relationship with email Canary Mail for a security-focused Mac email client Mailspring for a fast, free, and featured-filled Mac email client What makes for the best email client for Mac?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

There are problems with Slack green light or any other tool like Microsoft Teams if use them to measure your employee’s productivity. For instant messaging platforms, don’t tag someone in a channel unless it’s urgent that they see the message. And for complicated topics, you should probably hop on a call or schedule a meeting.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Searching the titles, descriptions and tags of videos was always easy enough, requiring no more than a basic algorithm. That being said, Google, as well as Microsoft and Amazon, offer services (i.e.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Just a ‘realignment’ : Microsoft is the latest Big Tech company to announce layoffs. It has a bit of a hefty preorder price tag — $499. Tune in tomorrow, July 13 at 2 p.m. ET by following the @TechCrunch Twitter account; we’ll announce it when we start! — Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3. The startup brought in $2.8

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I need some Microsoft OS coverage. We can build for one primary browser (like we do for Firefox on the desktop today) and then figure out how to get the rest working with whatever Microsoft builds. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. But their browser sucks, their app environment sucks, the developer community isn’t strong.

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