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Exclusive: Flipboard Raises $50 Million More on $800 Million Valuation
According to sources close to the situation, Flipboard has raised $50 million in new funding, in a round led by Rizvi Traverse Management and Goldman Sachs. The new funding puts the valuation of the...
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PeeqPeeq and the Big Idea of the Inbox as Data Source
While many tech startups like to talk about “killing email” or “reinventing the inbox,” Lee Ott loves email. Why? Almost everybody uses it. But the problem is, even the cleanest inbox crowds up with...
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Yep, LinkedIn Acquires Newsreader Startup Pulse for $90 Million
LinkedIn announced on Thursday it has acquired mobile news aggregation startup Pulse, as Kara Swisher reported last month that it would, signaling another step by the massive professional network...
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Circa's Matt Galligan on Building a Different Kind of News Reader (Video)
Earlier this week, I went for a visit to the San Francisco HQ of Circa, the startup that always seems to get lumped into the mobile news reader aggregation category with others such as Pulse, Zite and...
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Yahoo Acquires Hipster Mobile News Reader Summly for Close to $30 Million
Yahoo has bought Summly, the mobile news reader app founded by a young British entrepreneur. In a statement, the London-based company said it had bought the tiny outfit, which will close its app. The...
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With Pulse Following Zite's Lead, Mark Johnson Talks About News Reading App...
Earlier this week, I reported that LinkedIn was readying a purchase of Pulse, one of the more popular of the many news reader apps, for upward of $50 million. By coincidence, only days before, I had...
View ArticlePrismatic Banks $15 Million in Venture Capital
Social news reading app Prismatic announced a new Series A round of venture funding on Wednesday, banking another $15 million. Participating in the round were Accel Partners, Jim Breyer and Yuri...
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Custom Magazine Focuses on the Big Pictures
[ See post to watch video ] When you’re hungry for online news, where do you go for a personalized fix? There’s the friend who constantly posts the funniest stories on Facebook before everyone else, or...
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How to Get Your Start-Up Acquired in Six Months or Less
Fish image via Ivelin RadkovThe story of Zite has been a whirlwind. We launched on March 9, 2011, and closed our acquisition by CNN on Aug. 30 of the same year — just under six months later. But...
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Mediafed Snaps Up News Aggregation App Taptu
It’s tough being a news reader app. You’ve got competition on every side while you fight for distribution, not to mention staving off media company lawsuits, all the while trying to figure out how to...
View ArticlePrismatic's Sleek Newsreader, Now Available as an App
Prismatic, the interest-based newsfeed start-up that aims to better personalize reading and news discovery, launched its iPhone app on Thursday. To stand out among the glut of newsreader apps currently...
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Prismatic Personalized News Reader Opens to the Public
Yes, it’s been done before — you’ve heard of Flipboard and Zite and their many competitors — but Prismatic is a buzzy new personalized news aggregator that promises to discover fresh content better...
View ArticleYahoo Folds Up Livestand, Its Would-Be Flipboard Killer
Yahoo has pulled the plug on Livestand, its iPad/tablet news app. Yahoo rolled out the app last fall, and positioned it as competitor to apps like Flipboard and Zite. But the app never got any...
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Flipboard CEO McCue Likely to Step Down From Twitter Board Over Potential...
According to sources close to the situation, Flipboard co-founder and CEO Mike McCue has approached Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and co-founder Jack Dorsey about moving off the board of Twitter. It is not...
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Read It Later Trades in Its Literal Name for the More Open-Ended "Pocket"
The most popular source of content on the service Read It Later is YouTube. Thus, its once eminently grokkable name didn’t make as much sense anymore. So, starting today, Read It Later will be called...
View ArticleTablet Reading Apps Zite, Pulse Strike Publisher Deals
More tablet experimentation from publishers, this time via reading apps Pulse and Zite. Pulse, which already offered readers excerpts from Bonnier’s Popular Science magazine, will now be doing that...
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Zite Jumps to the Small Screen, Too
The iPad is famous for being a content-consumption device. But its smaller sibling can be a good place to read, too. Personalized newsreader Zite today adds support for the iPhone, just a couple days...
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In Your Hands, Just What You Want to Read
Personalized-reading apps save you from pawing through the Web for news and bring you more of what you want to read. Until now, these have been mostly found on tablets like the iPad, but Wednesday, the...
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Mike McCue Talks! Flipboard Finally Launches App for iPhone. (Video)
After promises to get it out midyear, Flipboard is finally releasing its much-anticipated mobile app for the Apple iPhone. The popular social reader is perhaps the most high-profile available on the...
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Spooking Flipboard: Yahoo's Livestand -- Followed by Google's Propeller --...
Memo to Flipboard, as well as Pulse, CNN’s Zite and AOL’s Editions: You might want to make some room in the already-crowded news and social reader space, because you’re about to get some bigfoot...
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