Email & Collaboration Industry Weekly: May 15 2019

Android Pie hits 10% adoption ahead of schedule, 2.5 billion Android devices now in the wild

5 billion Android devices... that's a lot!

Slack is adding email conversations and calendar integrations.

Email is not going away anytime soon and it looks like Slack wants to play nice with it.

The 8-Figure Email Newsletter — Morning Brew

We've heard great things about Morning Brew for advertisement purposes and it's interesting to see that an email newsletter can still be a great business in 2019.

Microsoft Launches Decentralized Identity Tool on Bitcoin Blockchain

Identity online is a hard problem both for businesses and consumers and it’s interesting to see Microsoft try to tackle it with a bitcoin-based solution.

Google Pay adds Gmail importing for automatically adding tickets, loyalty cards from your inbox

Google keeps working hard on making Gmail be the future of email.

Latest WhatsApp beta adds Vacation Mode that allows you to ignore, fully mute archived chats

WhatsApp can be intrusive and these are probably going to be welcome features.