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By David Uzondu · Posted
Salesforce to acquire Fin, formerly Intercom, for over $3 billion by David Uzondu Image via DepositPhotos.com Salesforce today announced that it has reached an agreement with customer support software company Fin to buy the company for around $3.6 billion. Salesforce expects the transaction to close in the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2027, and the acquisition will not change its financial guidance previously announced on May 27. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, in its press release, claimed that acquiring the startup gives Salesforce an immediate AI agent that resolves support tickets across email, WhatsApp, SMS, and Slack: You might know Fin by its former name, Intercom. If you have ever been on a website or inside a mobile app and noticed a little chat bubble widget floating in the bottom right corner of your screen, often featuring a friendly face and a message like, "Hi! How can we help you today?" you were almost certainly looking at Intercom. Intercom became Fin just last month, transforming itself into an "AI-first" platform that handles customer issues with little need for humans to intervene. The new name originates from the company's highly successful AI customer service agent, which it launched way back in 2023. This digital assistant supposedly resolves about 76% of customer service volume end-to-end on its own, so the business rebranded to match its primary software tool. Fin's new owners, Salesforce, went on an acquisition spree over the last few years, and some of them you might recognize, like its 2020 $27.7 Billion acquisition of Slack. The last few months saw the enterprise giant buy several startups, including m3ter, Momentum, Cimulate, and Contentful. Salesforce said that when the Fin deal pulls through, customers will "deploy AI agents across" various service operations, which will complement Agentforce, the platform that enables businesses to deploy customizable autonomous digital workers. -
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Microsoft now allows you to tweak Visual Studio to new extremes by Usama Jawad Visual Studio 2026 recently netted a powerful feature that finally allows developers to review Git Pull Requests (PRs) directly in the integrated development environment (IDE), without needing to switch to the browser. However, that's not all that Microsoft introduced in the latest version, as it also offered a useful way to customize the IDE to their heart's content. Although Visual Studio 2026 already provides lots of stock themes based on Fluent Design principles, Microsoft understands that people still want to customize them further according to their preferences. The IDE now offers a new configuration page for themes under Tools > Options > Environment > Visual Experience > Theme colors. This allows you to set hex color codes for accent colors, hover states, and more, and apply them without requiring a restart. The Redmond tech giant further says that: Microsoft is also offering granular color tokens that allow you to customize various UX elements like the tab header without impacting the rest of the shell chrome. Your themes are also stored in JSON format in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\18.0_xxxxxxxx\ColorThemes, which basically enables you to share it with others or override existing themes. This is a major improvement in terms of the user experience powering these customization capabilities. This is because extensions were required to replace the theme, and it was not very easy to make minor adjustments. This theme configuration UX solves this problem and is available in Visual Studio 2026 version 18.7, available here.
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Pop Goes the GMail
PGtGM has been discontinued. Please use http://www.gnotify.com/gpopper/ instead!
PGtGM sits between you GMail account and your email client, converting messages from the web based mailbox into POP3 messages that a program such as Outlook Express or Firebird can understand.
POP3 server now fully works. You are able to download gmail emails through any email client. SMTP server appears to work.
Please post any bugs you find in the login process to the thread, or problems displaying messages.
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Click here v0.9 (120k)
NOTE: You need to have the .net runtimes installed. Click Here
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Version log:
0.1 Inital test version
0.2 Fixed displaying only first 5 messages bug, added better error handling.
0.3 Better error display for errors when parsing message arrays.
Prototype SMTP and POP3 server built in.
0.4 POP3 server now fully works.
You are able to download gmail emails through any email client
0.5 SMTP works, I hope.
Notifies of new messages with tool tip balloon on tray.
Fixed username not found bug.
Used TripleDES encryption to store password in registry.
Fixed problem with no messages in account
0.6 SMTP server accepts attachments
Added Outlook 2003 support
Fixed login bug
Added Mozilla mail client support
Added generic mail client support with correct error responses
Added email client setup page to about screen
Modified design and layout of main form
0.7 Modified the way PGtGM downloads mails
Added advanced tab with various new options
Added ability to change the POP3 and SMTP ports.
Added option to disable external clients from using PGtGM
Added message menu function to rcvd emails
Fixed incorrect password giving blank messagebox bug
PGtGM starts on the tray by default
Fixed unable to exit Windows bug
Added update checking on startup
0.8 Additons:
Allowed user to change port if it is already in use on startup
SMTP server supports RSET
Added better port-in-use checking interface on startup
Fixed 'contenttype text/plain' SMTP server bug
Added proxy support
XML output of messagelist everytime a check commences
Added confirm exit option
Fixed password incorrect doing nothing bug
Removed shameless advertising on outgoing emails!
Fixed main form not being displayed problem
Fixed constant notification of new messages
0.9 Fixed attachment sending bug (I hope)
Now supports multiple To and CC addresses
Added debug log feature
Moved back to Mentalis.org SSL dll
Tightened up security on SMTP server
Started work on IMAP support (doesn't work yet)
Fixed port not saved/max of 60 bug
Improved error handling
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