Handle also natively integrates email and task functionality, without the need to forward emails to task managers.
Kontsevoy adds that Mailgun isn't just setting out to create email APIs — they want to actually change how developers integrate email into their apps.
Nylas, a startup that helps developers integrate email content into applications via an API, announced a $16 million Series B today led by Spark Capital.
But for Casalena and Gibralter, one of the main advantages is how Squarespace has integrated email marketing into the larger platform.
Last year, it introduced Astrobot (along with $8.3 million in funding), a Slack app that integrates email and calendars directly into the chat platform.
"We've taken some steps to make it possible to integrate email into Slack," the company writes, "but now we're in a position to make that interoperability much simpler and much, much more powerful.
For example, a developer could integrate email and RSS feed capabilities that turn MySpace into a more personalized homepage-type destination in contrast to (and perhaps in support of) its social app pedigree.
The startup's first iOS app had limited functionality and only allowed you to access your contacts and saved lists of relationships, but the new version of the app is a fully integrated email client that brings RelateI Qs data intelligence to your inbox.
By most accounts there aren't very many people out there in the world using PlayBooks, but for those that are, or are considering the purchase of one, comes some good news: RIM has finally updated the OS to include two services that have been long discussed and much anticipated: integrated email support and Android app availability.
Facebook founder and CEO, baby-faced billionaire, and unintended star of a hit (don't miss the double meaning) film Mark Zuckerberg announced last week that it will soon be offering a new messaging system, Facebook Messages, that integrates email (so 20th century), IM, SMS, Facebook, and other social media into one seamless stream of cyber-communication.
