‘World’s first text carrier’: Zipwhip debuts cloud-texting for landlines

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Seattle-based Zipwhip was the first company to bring cloud-texting to your desktop via your mobile number, and now they’re doing it for business landlines. “This is one of the biggest announcements we’ve made in Zipwhip’s history,” CEO John Lauer told GeekWire. “We will be the world’s first text carrier. That’s a new term because of how unique… Read More…

Zipwhip brings texting to Android tablets

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Seattle-based Zipwhip — the people who brought you cloud texting on your desktop using your mobile number — today announced that their Zipwhip texting app is available for Android Tablets. Once you download the app, you can tap on the “Z” icon and start texting. Zipwhip on Android lists the history of your text conversations,… Read More…

Video: Zipwhip’s ‘Textspresso’ machine, now with edible ink

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A few weeks ago, we told you about Zipwhip’s new Textspresso machine, an amazing invention that allowed coffee lovers at the cloud-based texting company to send a text to a coffee maker and have a cup of joe brewed automatically while they traveled to the office. The story was one of the most popular on… Read More…

Video: Watch the ‘Textspresso’ machine brew the geekiest cup of coffee ever

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Seattle is really known for two things: coffee and tech geeks. And I’ve never seen those two worlds collide in such beautiful harmony — like peanut butter meeting chocolate in a Reese’s cup — than the newly-created “Textspresso” machine from Seattle cloud texting startup Zipwhip. Life around the office coffee pot may never be the… Read More…

How Zipwhip is celebrating new customer wins with an automated flag raising

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Seattle entrepreneur John Lauer is the master of the tech PR stunt, once rigging up a system at his Detroit Web development company in the late 90s that allowed employees to read automated news feeds on the toilet. The story went viral after first appearing on the front page of The Detroit News. “We couldn’t… Read More…