Flipboard has announced a major design makeover which is its biggest update in two years. The update which bumps the app to version 4.0 aims to offer a more streamlined and personalized experience.
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If you don’t know what Pocket is then allow me to explain. It is a neat little app that helps you you to save stuff for viewing at a later time or date. This could be anything from articles, videos, photos etc. Now Pocket is introducing a new feature that gives you article and video recommendations that you may find interesting.
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Twitter is eyeing to acquire Flipboard, as per a report from Re/Code. The micro blogging site is said to be in talks to buy Flipboard for more than $1 billion in all stock deal.
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Flipboard has launched a web version that will let users access the service on desktop. The popular news and magazine reading service was previously available only on mobile apps.
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Flipboard has received a major revamp that includes a cleaner look and a bunch of customization tools for better news feed. The version 3.0 focuses on easy content discovery along with few enhancements.
Flipboard for Windows Phone that was released as private beta last month is now available for all the Windows Phone 8.1 users with at least 1GB of RAM. Flipboard for Windows Phone was announced last year, and it took more than year to release. The design is similar to other platforms, it lets you subscribe to different sources of curated content including social networks like Facebook and Twitter. You can swipe through all the news, articles, and updates. Continue reading “Flipboard app finally arrives for Windows Phone”
Flipboard will soon launch a Windows Phone app, according to a statement released by the company. The popular digital magazine is already present on all major platforms like Android, iOS and Blackberry.
At present the Flipboard app has landed on Windows Phone Store in private beta and has some time for a full fledged roll out. At present it has a good collection of news sources, like CNN and Los Angeles Times, personal magazines, social sharing and so on.
“We are working on a Windows Phone version of Flipboard. While we don’t have an exact date for you, it’s on our roadmap and should be available soon”
said Flipboard in an official statement.
It must be noted that the Flipboard app on Windows Phone needs a handset with 1GB RAM. No official date about when the app will be out of beta is known as of yet.
You can download the Flipboard app from Windows Phone Store.
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In 2011, CNN acquired Zite, a news reader app. The market for News reader app was fast growing at the time and the race is now settling down. Flipboard has emerged as one of the leaders of News reader apps and despite many acquisition offers, Flipboard is still alone and not acquired by any big players. As a turn of events, Flipboard has acquired CNN’s Zite for a deal that could reach as high as 60$ Million.
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Facebook has taken the wraps off Paper, a new social news aggregator app that is designed to help you bring all the important stories, and even let you create your own. The app is first of the many apps that are in the works at Facebook Creative Labs, which plans to unveil a suite of mobile apps soon. Paper, which has very similar ideologies as Flipboard, shows you all the long form stories from your news feed, and lets you like and comment on them from the app, much like Facebook home, with a really cool presentation of full screen images and a card-like interface for other content. Other than that, you can also add your own categories and populate them with your own desired sources, just like you would, on a traditional news aggregator. Here is a promo video of the app in action
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In a teeny tiny statement on Nokia’s Press site, it has been mentioned that the much awaited video based social network Vine is coming to Windows Phone 8 soon, in the official form. Along with Vine, the different social network Path and the best mobile magazine experience Flipboard too is coming to Windows Phone 8 very soon, Nokia announced. It was revealed in Microsoft’s //build/ conference that Flipboard will be coming to Windows 8 and it was then revealed to the press that it was coming to Windows Phone 8 too. With these popular apps coming to the Windows Phone 8, will it finally be relevant at least across casual users? We’ll see.
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Fipboard launched their Android app for phones, Kindle fire and Nook tablet just now. They have also updated their iPhone and iPad app to version 1.9.3 that brings Google+ and YouTube support. It also brings localized editions for more countries with regional recommendations. The previous version, 1.9.0 brought audio support. Continue reading “Flipboard for iPhone and iPad v1.9.3 update brings Google+ and YouTube support”
Flipboard for Android is now out of beta testing and is now available from the Google Play Store, Amazon and Barnes & Noble Nook App Store. The Flipboard beta app was launched last month. It also brings support Google+ and YouTube. Still there is no Soundcloud support that was recently available in the recent update for iPhone and iPad app. Continue reading “Flipboard for Android officially launches, gets Google+ and YouTube support”
Flipboard for iPhone and iPad has been updated to version 1.9 that brings new features including audio support from SoundCloud and radio programming from NPR and Public Radio International (PRI) and explore the new Audio category in the new content guide, all while reading their Flipboard. It also brings Apple’s Voice-over feature for visually impaired users and Readability support. Continue reading “Flipboard for iPhone and iPad v1.9 update brings Audio support and new Accessibility features”
Flipboard app for iPad now has the Cover Stories, a new feature that was launched with the iPhone app last December. The Flipboard iPhone and iPad apps now has a French Edition that offers content from French publications, blogs and other content sources. The Cover Stories offers personal feed of the most interesting news, updates and photos being shared with you. Cover Stories learns what readers like from their interactions with news, posts and photos shared by friends and sources.Both the iPhone and the iPad app has also received new features based on reader’s feedback. Continue reading “Flipboard for iPad gets Cover Stories feature, launches a new French edition”
