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"Business messaging service Cotap has gone beyond its mobile-first approach with the release of desktop and Web versions. The OS X version is available today on the Mac App Store, and the Web app is available on the Cotap website.\r\nCotap, which was started by two of Yammer\u2019s earliest executives, still plans to remain focused on mobile, but the addition of desktop options provides continuity for workers across their different machines. Notifications are synced so that messages read on one device will be marked as read on others.\r\nSo far, Cotap has appealed to companies that have a mix of employees at desks and in more active roles. Coffee companies like Philz Coffee and Blue Bottle Coffee, for instance, have taken to Cotap as a convenient way to send messages to baristas and office workers.\r\n\u201CBy bringing the desktop application, we want to start moving up the stack to companies that I would say are more traditional,\u201D Cotap co-founder Jim Patterson said.\r\nPatterson also explained the move as actually helping the service to become more mobile, which he defined as being \u201Cseamlessly synced across multiple devices.\u201D\u00A0Cotap also isn't planning to become as feature heavy as enterprise desktop services like Yammer or Salesforce, as it\u2019s still tailored for smartphone usage as its primary use case.\r\n\r\nWith today\u2019s launch, the company also announced a partnership with Box to use the Box View tool to preview and handle files across the major storage services, including Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. Your files will remain stored on the original cloud service, but Box will convert them to HTML so you can access them anywhere.\r\nThe existing mobile apps have also been revamped with new People and Group Directories that make it easier to find and manage your contacts.\r\nCotap currently has more than 10,000 companies working on its platform, though that number could jump up quickly now that the service is available on the desktop.\r\n\u27A4 Cotap"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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