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We looked at a data set of over 3.5 million proposed meeting times around the globe. Could we finally determine the most efficient times for meeting scheduling – when workers would be most available, willing, and able to meet – and eliminate the email ping pong once and for all? The results surprised us.

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Boomerang’s powerful, time-saving meeting scheduling features are now built into Android! Share your availability in just a couple taps. The latest update to Boomerang for Android also includes other time-saving features for email like Advanced Search, default email app setting, priority notifications, and recurring messages.

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At Boomerang, we are fortunate to be able to give a portion of our profits to help make the world a better place. This Giving Tuesday, I am thrilled to announce that we are not only increasing the amount of our donations for carbon capture research but we’re also donating to help build much needed schools for Burmese refugee children. One of my favorite things I get to do as the CEO of Boomerang is reading the proposals we get for our...

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At Boomerang, we’re fortunate enough to be able to donate a portion of our profits to different causes every year. For example, we’ve helped build several schools in Burma and funded a mobile school bus and a few academic labs working on carbon capture technologies. We are continuing the tradition of giving back this year and we’d like your help in finding our next recipient. One of the critical components of helping to offset global...

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Bookable Schedule, now for Outlook. Today we’re proud to roll out Bookable Schedule in Boomerang for Outlook. It’s meeting scheduling made easy. You can use Bookable Schedule now in Outlook on desktop or Outlook on the web. Want to try it out? Check out here. Bookable Schedule saves you the time and hassle of having to set up and share meeting invites over and over again. Simply set up a Bookable Schedule of available times and...

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Introducing Bookable Schedule. With the advent of working from home and hybrid remote/office working, the need to be efficient with our time has gotten more pronounced, not less. Whether it’s in-person, a Zoom call, or a virtual meeting across time zones, the number of meetings we need to attend has increased dramatically. While not every meeting could be a single email, it shouldn’t take more than a single email to schedule...

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We spent over 5 years building a completely free iOS app, only to start charging for it now. We learned a lot throughout this process, and hopefully you can learn a little something from our experience. With such a variety of documentation out there, you’re almost guaranteed to get lost. Here’s where to actually start: https://developer.apple.com/in-app-purchase/ Complexity 1 – Plan for a phased release schedule We’ve been...

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I’m excited to announce that we have chosen a proposal for Boomerang’s 2021 climate donation.  But before I do that, I’d like to back up and talk about how a productivity company ended up doing something like this on an ongoing basis. When we started Boomerang, we committed to donating 5% of our profits (if we ever generated any, which was far from guaranteed in 2010!) to support education in Burma, where I grew...

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At Boomerang, we’re fortunate enough to be able to donate a portion of our profits to different causes every year. For example, we’ve helped build several schools in Burma and funded a mobile school classroom and a couple academic labs working on carbon capture technologies. We are continuing the tradition of giving back this year and we’d like your help in finding our next recipient. One of the critical components of helping to...

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