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Flipboard launches version 3.0: Smarter recommendations plus a curated daily newsmagazine
Flipboard has launched a major redesign of its social-magazine app, adding smarter curation tools using technology from Zite, which it acquired in March, as well as a daily newspaper-style magazine that will be curated by the company’s editorial staff
A flipless Flipboard finally arrives on Windows Phones (as a placeholder)
Has it really been more than a year since Microsoft and Nokia said Flipboard would arrive on Windows Phone? Yes, it has:…
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Flipboard is about to get some competition on its home turf from Japan-based SmartNews
A Japanese news-recommendation app called SmartNews that mines Twitter for topical content has raised $36 million and says it plans to use those funds to expand into North America and take on Flipboard
5 ways startups are narrowing the content discovery gap
The content you want is out there — somewhere. Fortunately, several innovative startups are helping you find that content faster and, in the process, are bringing the realm of content delivery and discovery closer to the Holy Grail of true, meaningful and accurate personalization.
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Flipboard is acquiring Zite from CNN, forming broad advertising and content partnership with news and media giant
Flipboard, a leading mobile news-reading and content-sharing app, is acquiring one of its main competitors — an app called Zite — from CNN for a reported $60 million and forming an advertising and content partnership with CNN for all of the media giant’s content
Pause may just be the best little music mag you can’t buy on paper
Pause puts the play button in the music mag: The new iPad magazine from the makers of Shuffler.fm combines the best in music writing with music and videos.
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Flipboard wants to tame the unruly stream by becoming more like a traditional magazine
Flipboard is rolling out new features that group content into sections for easy browsing, in much the same way that traditional print magazines do — in part to help keep readers from feeling overwhelmed by a never-ending ocean of content
Calling all young entrepreneurial designers, Kleiner’s 2014 design program is now open
Kleiner Perkins has been restructuring itself, and part of that plan has been to emphasize the importance of product design, and work…
The tablet magazine ship is sinking. Fast.
The death of the tablet magazine has been heralded for months, but here’s how publishers need to rethink their digital offerings for the tablet age.
Medium beefs up its design and also expands on editorial curation features
Medium has launched a redesign focusing more on the visual power of its posts, and has also changed the way that collections work to give more power to collection curators or “editors”
The many complexities of developing apps for different devices and platforms
Simply building a good mobile app isn’t enough to guarantee success. It’s far more complicated when you still have to consider Android v. iOS and a broad range of devices and screen sizes to code for.
Flipboard’s brand magazines are doing well — users are actually subscribing to them
Brands are seeing success with Flipboard’s custom magazines: The company says that between 10 and 20 percent of users who click on a brand’s magazine actually end up subscribing to it.
Random House launches Flipboard magazines for Margaret Atwood and George R.R. Martin
Random House launched custom magazines on Flipboard for two of its bestselling authors, George R.R. Martin and Margaret Atwood.
Flipboard launches its mobile magazines on the web
Flipboard’s custom magazines have only been available through its mobile apps until now, but on Tuesday the company announced that it is bringing them to the web.
Yup, Facebook is working on a Flipboard-like mobile news reader: Report
Facebook is reportedly working on a mobile news-reading app. Details are scant, but according to a WSJ report, the current iteration of the app has a Flipboard-like interface.
Financial Times joins Flipboard, says it’s a better deal than Apple
The Financial Times is the latest publisher to strike a partnership with Flipboard. The deal is interesting because the FT recently left another third-party platform, iTunes.
GigaOM Reads: A look back at the week in tech
In Summly we trust, Flipping the magazines, Math Madness, Say no to contracts & iPhone comes to T-Mobile, plus cable cuts slow down the Internet and links to web-world greatness. A look back at the week in tech
Two ways the new Flipboard could disrupt media: Advertising and revenue sharing
Flipboard’s new curation tools for creating custom magazines may appeal to individual users, but they will likely also appeal to advertisers and other brands — and therein lies the potential for real media disruption.
Google Reader, please don’t go — I need you to do my job
Google Reader is one of the top-three tools I use to do my job — and Twitter and Flipboard aren’t good substitutes.
Why a LinkedIn acquisition of Pulse would make sense — content requires context
If LinkedIn were to buy the Pulse news-recommendation app — something a number of reports say could be in the works — it would give the corporate social network a powerful way of filtering content for its users.
Who’s going to capture the social news reader market? Thirst throws its hat in the ring
A good number of companies are trying to create the best social reader for news and information, but no one’s really emerged a clear winner yet. Thirst is moving from a Twitter client to news reader in an attempt to capture part of the market.
Flipboard goes on a hiring binge: 8 new people, including 3 former Hulu execs
Social magazine Flipboard added eight new employees this week, including three former Hulu executives, bringing the company’s total head count to 77.
Android this week: Google X phone; Flipboard goes big; Galaxy gets Grand
Perhaps in fear of Samsung forking Android for its own use, Google is reportedly working with its Motorola resources on an “X Phone” with unique features. Flipboard finally debuts on Android tablets while Samsung continues to leverage large phone screens with its Galaxy Grand.
Flipboard goes big, lands on Android tablets
Android users of Flipboard have a tablet-optimized version of the popular newsreader now. Instead of a scaled-up version of the popular news reader, Android tablet owners get a magazine-like experience similar to that of Flipboard’s 2010 debut on the Apple iPad.
Prismatic gets $15M to build a recommendation engine for the world
Prismatic, a San Francisco-based startup that uses machine-learning algorithms to recommend news and other content to users based on their social activity, has raised a $15-million Series A round from a star-studded group of investors including Accel Partners and Russian investor Yuri Milner.
Funding good design is now officially mainstream
Did investor love for designers just jump the shark? Nah, but it’s a long-brewing trend that continues to get even bigger.
Kleiner Perkins adds Design Fellows program to promote design in technology
Legendary Silicon Valley investment firm Kleiner Perkins is announcing a Design Fellows program Tuesday, giving current design students the opportunity to spend a summer in Silicon Valley working on design-related projects with noted tech firms, marrying the importance of design and tech.
Flipboard adds Books section integrated with Apple’s iBookstore
Social news app Flipboard aims to help readers discover books in a new partnership with Apple’s iBookstore. Flipboard takes a cut of each book sale made via its platform.
Meet RoadMap Book, exclusive for RoadMap attendees
Introducing RoadMap Book, which we’ve designed and printed to exclusively give to all our RoadMap attendees. RoadMap, coming up on November 5th in San Francisco, is focused on design in the age of connectedness, and our book features interviews and essays from thought leaders.
The new era of startups focused on design
Startups that are focused on design are emerging as the web and mobile industry’s most successful companies. What does it take to make a commitment to design? Mike McCue, Flipboard’s co-founder and CEO has some ideas.
Three billion flips later, Flipboard turns to video
The app start-up has made waves by aggregating text web articles as though they were magazine pages. Now it wants to do the same for video.
Prismatic wants to conquer the new frontier: Mobile news
Prismatic, a news-filtering service, has launched an iPhone app that founder Bradford Cross says makes the experience of reading news on a mobile device appealing for the first time, because it strips away all of the clutter that tends to slow down mobile news sites.
Pocket (formerly Read It Later) raises $5m in second funding round
Pocket, the web-content-saving company formerly known as Read It Later, has raised $5 million in a Series B funding round and will use the money to expand its platform. The company now has nearly six million users.
Pulse vs. Flipboard: Which will win, subscriptions or ads?
News-aggregation services Flipboard and Pulse have both signed deals this week to distribute content from a mainstream outlet — one the New York Times and the other the Wall Street Journal — but they are taking very different approaches when it comes to monetizing those relationships.
Why the NYT-Flipboard deal is a smart move
A partnership between the New York Times and Flipboard isn’t just noteworthy because it is a first for the newspaper. It could also be a sign that the NYT‘s philosophical approach toward content in the digital age might be changing for the better.
New York Times kicks off “NYT Everywhere,” first stop: Flipboard
The New York Times is launching a new initiative, “NYT Everywhere,” designed to bring its content to third-party platforms. Its first partnership under the new program is with social magazine Flipboard. The paywall is coming along too.
Flipboard launches on Android phones, no plans for a tablet app
Flipboard, Apple’s 2010 iPad app of the year, is finally launching on Android phones worldwide and will also be available on the Kindle Fire and on Nook tablets. The personalized news magazine app will also incorporate Google+ and YouTube for the first time.
Android this week: Nexus 7 Tablet surfaces; Flipboard opens beta; MotoActv gets social
Details of the expected Nexus 7 tablet, appeared in server logs this week. It appears Google has a 7-inch, quad-core slate to debut at its I/O event later this month. Flipboard opened a beta for Android users while Motorola’s smart watch gains Twitter and Facebook.
Flipboard opens an Android beta program
Flipboard for Android launched exclusively on Samsung’s Galaxy S III. The reading app is an iOS fave due to its intuitive page flipping interface, many news sources and connectivity to social networking sites. Here’s how to register and get Flipboard for Android beta on your phone.
Want Flipboard on Android? Here’s how to get it.
Flipboard has long been a showcase app for iOS. When Samsung introduced its new Galaxy S III, however, it said that Flipboard would debut on the handset as an Android exclusive. It didn’t take long for the installation file to appear on the web.
Flipboard is ‘head-on competitor’ on Economist’s road to all-digital
The Economist’s CEO thinks news publishing will be all-digital at some point in the near- to mid-term. But he sees services like Flipboard re-using his content to take its revenue along the way.
Read It Later’s app goes free and gets a new name, Pocket
Read It Later is making its app completely free — no more premium version — and renaming it Pocket to express the fact that users can save any type of content, not just articles.
Flipboard's Phone Flips Beating iPad 2:1
Flipboard’s iPhone application has clocked up a million downloads in the week since it went live, the company tells paidContent.
Hands on with Flipboard for iPhone: Small screen success
On the iPad, few would deny that Flipboard is a category leader; its delivery of personalized, multi-source news is pretty hard to top. Now, the Flipboard team has brought that class-defining experience to the iPhone, in a way that makes perfect sense for the smaller screen.
From Leanback To Stand-Up, iPad's Flipboard Flips To Phone
After demonstrating how tablets trump smartphones and PCs for leisurely and long-form reading, iPad’s new wave of magazine-like content aggr…
Flipboard launches slick iPhone app
Flipboard, which made its name with a slick iPad app, is now branching out. The company is announcing a brand new iPhone app that is slick, sticky and addictive. The game plan, according to CEO Mike McCue, is to take attention away from the old-fashioned browser.
Flipboard Coming to China, Teams Up With Sina and Renren
Earlier this year you may recall that everyone’s favorite iPad reading app Flipboard was blocked in China. But apparently the GFW ain’t no t…
Flipboard Readies For iPhone Launch, International Push
News aggregation app Flipboard has introduced new features to support its upcoming iPhone version, whilst also apparently preparing to re-la…
Yahoo Livestand: All dressed up and no place to go
On Wednesday, Yahoo released its Livestand app, which combines aspects of apps like Flipboard and Zite with the digital magazine rack concept of Apple’s Newsstand. I took the app through its paces to see how the hybrid approach holds up in the face of the competition.
Building a mobile app? Here are 6 tips for you
The mobile apps and services founders speaking at Mobilize 2011 this week gave some great advice for startups to follow. We picked out some of the best tips from Pandora, Flipboard, Instagram, Hipmunk, Formspring and Grey Area.
Flipboard is trying to reinvent media for the tablet age
Flipboard was created out of a desire to reinvent media consumption for a digital and tablet age, but that doesn’t mean it can’t help existing publications repair their damaged business models, editorial director Josh Quittner told attendees at GigaOM’s Mobilize conference in San Francisco on Monday.
Fotopedia graduates from iPad app to Flipboard magazine
Fotopedia, the visual storytelling startup founded by former Apple scientists, is turning its magazine-like travel photography app into an actual digital magazine called Fotopedia Magazine, an online publication focused on travel and culture. The digital platform of choice for distribution is another popular iPad app: Flipboard.
Look Out, Flipboard And Zite: Google Said To Be Working On News Reader App
Demand for slick news aggregation services on mobile devices has not escaped Google’s attention. According to reports, the company is planni…
News.me finally gets its wings — but can it fly?
News.me, the social news-curation app that was developed at the New York Times and then incubated by Betaworks, has been spun off as a separate company to sink or swim on its own. But can it compete with giants like Flipboard and other newer competitors?
After the CEO, Yahoo needs to fire its board
Despite the firing of Bartz, Yahoo is not out of the woods yet. It’s time for a complete face lift of Yahoo’s board. Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang needs to bring on folks who have a deeper understanding of the changes around and ahead of the company.
Can Editions find a place in the iPad news aggregation crowd?
AOL’s new Editions iPad app, billed as a “daily magazine that reads you,” is now available in the App Store. It’s actually remarkably smart and sexy, but can Editions hope to make a significant splash when similar apps like Flipboard already seem so firmly entrenched?
If your news site isn’t social, great design won’t matter
Designer Andy Rutledge has been getting slammed for a blog post about the flaws that afflict most major news websites such as the New York Times — but his biggest mistake is arguing that news sites should avoid social-media elements, when the exact opposite is true.
Flipboard is a real digital magazine now — it comes with ads
Flipboard has taken the next step in its move to become a one-stop digital magazine by launching a partnership with traditional publishers like Conde Nast to push their ads into its app. Can the company succeed at digital advertising when so many other players have failed?
Dolphin Browser for Android turns web into a magazine
I previously gave Android device owners eight reasons to try the Dolphin Browser, and today the company adds reason number nine. The newest version of the popular third-party browser adds a Webzine feature, turning the browsing experience into a magazine-like platform to read top-tier content.
Flipboard wants to be the newsstand of the future
Flipboard, one of the first iPad applications to really take advantage of the new device’s touch interface to create a kind of digital magazine, today released a series of updates and new features that turn the app into even more of a tablet-based newsstand.
Future of media: This is no time for incrementalism
As the recent report from the FCC on the future of media makes clear, describing the industry’s problems is a lot easier than coming up with solutions. Washington Post managing editor Raju Narisetti doesn’t have any answers either, but says now isn’t the time for incrementalism.
Are Apps Like Flipboard the Future of Media?
Apps like Flipboard and Zite are showing traditional media entities what readers really want when it comes to mobile content consumption: smart aggregation, customization and personalization, and a better interface. If publishers don’t find a way to ride that wave, they will be crushed by it.
Flipboard Raises $50 Million Round At A $200 Million Valuation
Social reader app Flipboard says it has raised a $50 million funding round at a staggering $200 million valuation. The new money, which come…
Oprah OWNs Prime Flipboard Real Estate In First-Of-A-Kind Deal For iPad Mag
Flipboard isn’t making money from publishers yet but it’s getting closer. A deal with Oprah that goes live today marks the first time that t…
The Race to Build the “Daily Me” Continues
A new iPad app called Zite is the latest entrant in the race to build the “Daily Me,” a personalized newspaper that learns what you like. No one has really won this race yet, although Flipboard appears to be leading — and where is Google?
Yahoo Wants to Get Mobile And Personal With Livestand
Yahoo unveiled a new personalized digital newstand app called Livestand that will serve as a showcase for magazine content on tablets but will eventually drive the overall Yahoo experience across all devices. Livestand represents Yahoo’s drive to become more mobile and personal.
Flipboard Updates With Loads Of Features, But Still No Offline Access
The good news first: Flipboard, the popular iPad app that lets users aggregate its social media and news feeds into one unified, magazine-li…
Is Flipboard Too Much Fun to Be Useful?
When Flipboard first arrived on the scene, it was essentially just a browser for Twitter and Facebook. But now the company has introduced support for Google Reader feeds, Flickr photos and other real-time media streams, as it tries to become a one-stop iPad portal for content.
Flipboard Tries To Deliver Magazine Promise With New Looks For Media, Ads
Flipboard launched in July to rave reviews and intense interest in an iPad app that made Twitter and Facebook look downright glossy. But unt…
Flipboard: Future is HTML5, RSS & New New Advertising
Mike McCue, the founder of Palo Alto, Calif.-based mobile media company, Flipboard, seems to have figured out a business model for his 20-person company. It revolves around a new kind of ad network, embracing RSS and betting that HTML5 is going to define its future.
Flipboard Wades Into Murky Copyright Waters Where Google Lives
Flipboard, a new content-browsing app for the iPad, raises many of the same thorny copyright issues that Google has been dealing with for years on Google News and Google Books. Is it a value-added service that content publishers should be thankful for, or a copyright-infringing parasite?
Flipboard Responds to Failed Launch
Flipboard, the new iPad application that formats personal news streams into readable pages, was a hot ticket this week. Quite a bit hotter, it turns out, than anticipated and prepared for. Since launching late Tuesday, the customizable part of Flipboard has been largely non-functional.
Flipboard Buys Ellerdale, Launches Social Digital Magazine
Remember how the iPad was supposed to herald a new era of media consumption? Well, that day is finally here — or at least a glimpse of it, with the new iPad application Flipboard, built by a new company of the same name.
Flipboard Has $10.5 Million To Launch iPad ‘Mag’ Edited By Friends
Predictably, the tech world is abuzz with talk of Flipboard today.
The new free iPad app is pitching itself, perhaps hyperbolically, as “th…
