Business social-media giant LinkedIn is acquiring Rapportive, a Gmail add-on that enhances contact information.
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Rapportive is a Gmail-only plugin that adds shared content, tweets, social media buttons, and notes to your Google Contacts. The plugin lives in the sidebar of Gmail, next to each email. When Google introduced the People Widget, the sidebar that displays contact info next to emails, Rapportive integrated its service directly into the widget.
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The company faces competition from Contactually, which launched in early January 2012.
Rapportive’s investors include Gmail creator Paul Buchheit, incubator Y Combinator, Scott Banister, Jason Calacanis, Gary Vaynerchuk, David Cancel, Dharmesh Shah, Shervin Pishevar, Roy Rodenstein, Dave McClure’s new fund 500 Startups, Nivi & Naval Ravikant’s VentureHacks, Charles River Ventures, Kima Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, and BOLDstart Ventures.
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