Redbooth (formerly Teambox) is a

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workplace collaboration tool and communication platform.

History

Redbooth, previously known as Teambox Technologies S.L., who developed Teambox, was founded in 2008 and continued to serve commercial and free hosting for Teambox. The company also offered installation and customization of the software. In February 2010, Teambox secured $193,400 ( €140,000) and an additional

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250,000 as part of a

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round in November 2010. In April 2010, Canadian internet company Talker announced that it had been acquired by Teambox. In June 2013, Teambox partnered with

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to provide HD

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to its users. On 21 January 2014, after gaining 650,000 users, Teambox was renamed to "Redbooth, Inc.". Later that year, on 18 November 2014, Redbooth announces a $11 million Series B round, led by Altpoint Ventures and Avalon Ventures. Redbooth's total funding was brought to $17.5 million. In August 2016, Redbooth released an exclusive app for

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, it is now available in the Apple TV

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. On 13 September 2017, Redbooth announced that it had merged with AeroFS, a company that develops collaboration applications. The new combined company is called Redbooth, and products from both companies will be supported going forward.

Features

* Status updates and conversations — Status updates are registered as projects' conversations. You can later organize conversations by giving them headlines. There are options to notify other project members via email and to attach files from one's computer or

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. *

Task management Task management is the process of managing a task through its life cycle. It involves planning, testing, tracking, and reporting. Task management can help either individual achieve goals, or groups of individuals collaborate and share knowledg ...

– Tasks are organized into task lists under the projects. The task system is very closely related to the conversation system and conversations can be converted to tasks. Tasks' status can be changed when commenting it. There is

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, delegation and due date properties for tasks. * File and

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: Easily share, find and work on current documents. Comes with free file storage and integrates with:

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* Real-time communication: HD Video conferencing for up to 100 people, screen sharing, and group chat to communicate with your team in real time. * Role-based permission to access to projectsRedbooth review by Getapp
/ref> * Integration with other systems (CRM, ERP, etc.) * HD Video conferencing * Pages — Pages are a

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type documentation feature. * Discussion forums * Chat * Contacts on the project * Time tracking — Time spent on tasks can be tracked * Phone and tablet clients for

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and Android * Language support for English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.

References

External links

* {{official website, https://redbooth.com
Teambox
on GitHub Project management software Free software programmed in Ruby Software using the GNU AGPL license

History

Features

See also

References

External links