Advertising itself as the magazine of your life, Flipboard is an app that brings together all of the news you care about (from social networks, publications, and blogs) into a single, beautiful, package. Fortunately for Windows phone users, Flipboard is also available right now as a free download. Designed as a sort of news aggregator, Flipboard does a beautiful job of … [Read more...] about Flipboard Available Free to Windows Phone Users
Flipboard Will be Displaying Video Advertisements in Digital Magazines
Flipboard is changing the way we consume and interact with news stories from all over the world. The company allows users to aggregate social feeds into a digital magazine. These magazines can be individual or shared with the wider community. Flipboard has started to hit critical mass with its 100 million registered users and 10 million digital magazines created by … [Read more...] about Flipboard Will be Displaying Video Advertisements in Digital Magazines
Flipboard Acquires Competitor News Reader Zite
Flipboard is currently one of the most popular online news reading apps and the company has been gaining massive traction over the past few years. In order to facilitate further growth the company has bought out one of their competitors, Zite. Zite was formerly owned by CNN, who had paid $25 million for it back in 2011. CNN Money proclaimed that the buyout figure from … [Read more...] about Flipboard Acquires Competitor News Reader Zite
New Flipboard Feature Lets Readers Target Content
Opinions may vary on the topic, but--for better or worse--digital publishing has meant a never-before-seen amount of content. Whether it's ebook overload, the nearly impossible search features in many app stores, or the piles upon piles of digital magazines, readers can often feel so overwhelmed that they simply stop engaging with the content. Flipboard, which first came on … [Read more...] about New Flipboard Feature Lets Readers Target Content
Facebook Paper to Battle Pulse and Flipboard
Pulse and Flipboard remain two of the most popular reading apps for iOS and Android. They basically allow you to access your favorites sites RSS Feeds in a very intuitive and touch friendly approach. These two apps are dominating the news segment and Facebook is displeased. The social media giant is going to roll out their own news app called Paper and should be out by the end … [Read more...] about Facebook Paper to Battle Pulse and Flipboard
Flipboard iOS Update sends Stories to your Friends
Flipboard has updated their iOS app today and it helps you share compelling stories with your friends. When you are reading a story you can click with the share with friends function and that post is automatically shown on their Flipboards. They will also get a link to the content via email. Sharing stories with your friends is a fairly interesting feature. I dig the fact … [Read more...] about Flipboard iOS Update sends Stories to your Friends
Flipboard Raises Another $50 Million in Latest Round of Funding
Flipboard is on the verge of adding another $50 million in the form of venture capital funding that is in the final stages of negotiations. This will be in addition to the $50 million that the social news app had picked up just about two months ago, raising the amount it has raised so far to $160 million since launching in 2010. The investors who have picked up stake in the … [Read more...] about Flipboard Raises Another $50 Million in Latest Round of Funding
Time, People, Fortune and Instyle Gravitate to Flipboard
Flipboard started offering the ability for their users to create their own digital magazines based on news articles early in the year. This has attracted a number of companies such as Etsy to buy into the news assembling model. Today, the major magazine players are jumping on-board with InStyle and People launching this week and Fortune and Time debuting in December. The … [Read more...] about Time, People, Fortune and Instyle Gravitate to Flipboard
Random House Launches Curated Magazines on Flipboard
Random House has partnered with Flipboard, the popular news and social media aggregation application, to become the first ever book publisher to curate content for the platform of 85 million users. The collaboration kicks off with two custom digital magazines. The first, curated by Margaret Atwood, is inspired by her new novel, MaddAddam and the second, by Westeros.org, … [Read more...] about Random House Launches Curated Magazines on Flipboard
Flipboard 2.0 Launches on the Android Platform
Flipboard is a popular news reading application that is doing battle with Pulse Reader for market supremacy. Today, the app has been updated on Google Play, which gives people the ability to craft their own digital magazines with text, audio, and video. Being able to make your own magazine and share it with your friends is something most people have a passing interest in. … [Read more...] about Flipboard 2.0 Launches on the Android Platform
Flipboard for iOS Updated – Users Can Assemble Their Own Digital Magazines
Flipboard has made one of the biggest updates in its two year history to the official iOS app. The new 2.0 edition has more content than ever to enjoy, including a new partnership with Etsy. For the first time, you can collect and save articles, photos, audio, and video by organizing them into beautiful magazines. These can be private, or if you want to connect with … [Read more...] about Flipboard for iOS Updated – Users Can Assemble Their Own Digital Magazines
Inserting Ads in eBooks: New Concept or an Existing Idea Being Adopted by the Market?
The recent ruling in the United States, where a jury awarded Apple $1.05B USD in damages from Apple's suit against Samsung, was the largest patent settlement in history for willfully infringing Apple’s patents. The damages related to the look and feel of smart phones and tablets, with such features as the “pinch and zoom” and “bounce back” patents, along with the trade dress … [Read more...] about Inserting Ads in eBooks: New Concept or an Existing Idea Being Adopted by the Market?
Flipboard to Curate Apple iBooks
One of the biggest problems with the current ebook market is how difficult it is to find good stuff. So much self-published material is available that it becomes hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Even the "commercial" ebooks section has become a problem. One of the main advantages of an old-fashioned bookstore is that you can browse a book, look at the cover, talk to … [Read more...] about Flipboard to Curate Apple iBooks
Flipboard for Android and Playbook Released
Flipboard creates a personalized magazine out of everything being shared with you. Flip through your Facebook newsfeed, tweets from your Twitter timeline, photos from Instagram friends, sounds from SoundCloud and much more. It also is customizable for blogs to publications like Rolling Stone and Lonely Planet, and use Instapaper or Readability to save articles to read later. … [Read more...] about Flipboard for Android and Playbook Released