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Tiger Global and a16z-backed productivity company ClickUp has acquired the calendar app Hypercal to boost its platform offering, TechCrunch has learned. As part of the acquisition, the app’s founder Ricardo Clerigo is also joining ClickUp as Head of Calendar. UK-based Hypercal was founded in 2022 as an app for Mac and offered integration with different apps such as Notion, OneNote, Apple Notes, Google Docs, Todolist, Apple Reminders, Asana, Things app, Microsoft To-Do, and Slack. Its free plan…

The calendar is a popular addition to many households, both as a tool for tracking dates and as a simple decor element.However, when TikTok user Meghan unpacked the one she got for her suburban 3/4-acre homestead in Ohio, the woman noticed something was off.As she flipped through the pages, Meghan noticed that many of the horses, which were supposed to be the main feature of the publication, were disfigured and contorted.This woman bought a horse calendar for 2024, but she noticed there was something odd about itShare…

There are some days when we are left facing a virtual shower of tasks and responsibilities and everything has to be done quickly. In such situations, we might feel overwhelmed and the result may lead to a decrease in productivity and efficiency. The idea to combat all such situations on a daily basis is to get organised. You can manage tasks effectively and stay organised by taking advantage of the Google Suite of apps such as  Google Calendar, Chrome, Assistant, and more. All of these can help you stay on top of your…

Welcome, folks, to TechCrunch Week in Review (WiR), a digest of the past few days in tech happenings. As I write this, snow’s gracing New York City — an increasingly rare treat thanks to our changing climate. And that feels fitting in light of the Apple Vision Pro’s imminent launch. After all, one of the promises of headsets like the Vision Pro is that they transport the wearer away from the stresses of everyday life to more optimistic realities — at least for a spell. Brian went hands on with…

Productivity tools have been on the rise over the last few years, especially after the COVID-19 lockdowns forced everyone to work from home. In today's hustle culture, these tools can help you organize, not only your work but your life too, allowing you to stay ahead of all commitments. And to succeed, staying organized and collaborating with your team is essential to ensure high productivity and output. If you want your team to be productive and perform well, it is very important that everyone is well aware of the…

Notion, the popular productivity platform, is adding a calendar app the company says will eliminate much of the tedious clicking users of competing software are accustomed to. “Even though digital calendars are kind of the main way we end up running our days, if we’re honest, there hasn’t really been a lot of innovation in it,” says Raphael Schaad, head of product for Notion Calendar. “Nothing really has happened there in the last decade or so.”And while Notion Calendar—available as of Wednesday for Windows, Mac, and iOS,…

Notion launched a calendar app Wednesday, built and reskinned from Cron, the calendar startup the company bought in 2022. Tight platform-wide integration will be the appeal for Notion’s “tens of millions” of users. Notion Calendar includes a built-in scheduler and makes it easy to merge content from the productivity ecosystem’s notes, docs and project dates.Notion Calendar lets you link Notion notes and other documents to meetings, transforming the calendar invite into an all-in-one hub for participants to add or view…

I have three chess puzzles for you this week, but you don’t need to know the rules of chess for two of them. These two are variants of the famous eight queens puzzle, which asks solvers to position eight queens on an eight-by-eight board such that no two queens attack each other. The eight queens puzzle requires a little too much trial and error for my taste, which perhaps is why the problem more often shows up in computer science courses as an exercise in writing programs that search through cases for you.Would Peter…

Image: Photo: Shutterstock Graphics: Vicky Leta‘Tis the season for New Year’s resolutions. As we all sign up for gym memberships or invest in a Peloton that will just gather dust by March, I resolve to work out your brain this year. January 1, 2024 is a Monday. So what day was January 1 last year? Because of the regularities in how we slice and organize time, you don’t need to consult a calendar or count backwards from 365 to answer that question.Will You Click Windows’ New Copilot Button?Legendary mathematician John…

Basecamp founders’ email service Hey is fighting with Apple again — this time over the rejection of its new calendar app from the App Store. Apple’s reasoning is similar to when Cupertino-based tech giant rejected Hey’s email app four years ago — non-paying users can’t use the app after downloading it. Plus, new users can’t sign up through Hey’s calendar app. Last week, Basecamp launched an integrated calendar service with Hey, along with a new standalone app for it. On Saturday, Hey’s…