LinkedIn Is Acquiring Contacts Start-Up Rapportive - Liz Gannes - Social - AllThingsD

LinkedIn rumored to be augmented with contextual Gmail communication/collaboration tools

Rapportive, which is still available only for Gmail, overlays an email correspondent’s social networking accounts alongside open messages and drafts. So, for instance, you can see a person’s most recent tweet and mention it in your email to them. Or you can realize that you’re not connected on LinkedIn to a person you just had a meeting with, and rectify that.

Rapportive hasn’t publicly disclosed how many people use it, but in September, Vohra was quoted as saying Rapportive users viewed more than 65 million contacts per month. He also said at the time that the company was preparing to sell premium products.

LinkedIn Is Acquiring Contacts Start-Up Rapportive - Liz Gannes - Social - AllThingsD