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Zite Launches (Even More) Personalized iPad Magazine App
Once upon a time, I subscribed to a thread on the Q&A site Quora on the topic: “Why have personalized news start-ups failed?“ Thirty-six answers later, I was ready to turn off Quora email...
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A Digital "Magazine" With One Subscriber
Each morning, the President of the United States gets briefed on the day’s news by some of the smartest advisers around. The rest of us aren’t so lucky. We have to sift through newspapers, magazines...
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Exclusive: Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard. Today, its co-founder and...
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AOL Finally Ready With Editions, Its iPad Magazine
After a nine-month gestation, AOL says its online iPad magazine is ready to meet the world. Editions by AOL, as the app is known, should hit the iTunes store later today or by Wednesday morning at the...
View ArticleOur Algorithms Are Better Than Your Algorithms: News360 App Personalizes
News360, a well-loved news reading app for various devices, is relaunching today for iPad, Honeycomb and Web, having updated its apps to include more personalization features. There are many other...
View ArticleApple iPad News Reader Zite Sold to CNN for Just Over $20 Million
Zite, the magazine-style reading app for the Apple iPad, has been sold to news giant CNN for $20 million to $25 million. The arena for news readers on tablets and smartphones is competitive, with...
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It's Called Google Propeller and It's Aimed at Flipboard (and Facebook, Too,...
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Earlier today, well-known digerati dude Robert Scoble posted on his social feed on Google+ that the search giant was working on a social and news...
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Zite Doctors Up the iPad for Multiple Personalities
When I first bought my iPad, I thought it would be a household device, but by the time I had my Twitter push notifications and my Angry Birds high scores up and running, it was pretty clear who it...
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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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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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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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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...
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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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...
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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...
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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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 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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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...
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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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