Yahoo has decided to discontinue production of Yahoo Livestand, a newsreading app for the iPad launched just six months ago. The news was announced in a post to Yahoo's corporate blog on Friday, leading up to three-day holiday weekend in the U.S. full story ![]()
The headlines are buzzing today with news that Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) will formally close its China-based email service, in the latest sign that the company may soon withdraw from China completely. Such a move wouldn't come as a big surprise, since Yahoo's recently named new CEO has been making some major changes in a bid to revive the struggling former Internet pioneer. One...
forbes.com (26 days ago)
The headlines are buzzing today with news that Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) will formally close its China-based email service, in the latest sign that the company may soon withdraw from China completely. Such a move wouldn't come as a big surprise, since Yahoo's recently named new CEO has been making some major changes in a bid to revive the struggling former Internet pioneer. One...
forbes.com (26 days ago)

Having attracted 50m users so far, can news app's Pinterest-like new features make it even more mainstream?When it first launched in July 2010, Flipboard was an interesting new spin on news aggregation: an iPad app that turned people's Twitter and Facebook feeds into a digital magazine.Since then, it has added other social sources like Instagram, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Google+...
guardian.co.uk (1 month and 22 days ago)
Flipboard is on a hiring spree: The social magazine added eight new employees this week, including three former Hulu executives. The biggest hire is Eric Feng, who joins Flipboard as CTO; he'd held the same role at Hulu and was also a partner at Kleiner Perkins.
gigaom.com (3 months and 9 days ago)
It's no secret that Flipboard is a resounding success among people (50 million of them) who want to consume a wide range of organized content. But in the two weeks since Flipboard announced their user-generated magazine feature, more than 500,000 personalized magazines have been created. For most, it's the perfect way to be your own content curator. For savvy content...
forbes.com (1 month and 4 days ago)

Flipboard, one of the iPad‘s defining applications, is built atop a simple premise: the stuff your friends and other citizens of the web create and collect is interesting and deserves to be presented in a beautiful, browsable form, with big photos and slick typography. That’s why the app, which is also available for the iPhone and Android, calls itself a “social magazine.”...
time.com (1 month and 22 days ago)
A new second generation of Flipboard allows users to create and share their own handsome digital magazines with a few clicks and without any design talent required, says Walt Mossberg.
wsj.com (1 month and 22 days ago)
Social news magazine Flipboard this week introduced Version 2.0, with more content, faster navigation, and in-app user-curated periodicals.
pcmag.com (1 month and 21 days ago)
Flipboard's recent update lets users create custom "magazines" and share them. For a large swath of the publishing industry, this provides a glimpse of what (for them) could be a grim future.
gigaom.com (1 month and 10 days ago)

A new 'Plus' button for iOS devices allows users of the popular Flipboard app to select articles for their own magazines.
telegraph.co.uk (1 month and 21 days ago)
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