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  • March 14th, 2013

    Mediafed’s Qrius Wants To Make RSS Subscriptions Easier, Give Publishers A Better Way To Distribute Their Content

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    The end of Google Reader is just a few months away, but RSS, the protocol that makes Reader and many other news readers tick, is alive and well. With its Qrius syndication service and the web and mobile news reader Taptu, Mediafed wants to help independent publishers to increase their distribution and make subscribing to news feeds easier. Currently about 130 out of the over 2,000 premium… → Read More

    September 20th, 2012

    ESPN Goes Realtime, Turns Its Content Firehose Into A Streaming Reader

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    Oh, it’s on. Over the last year or so, ESPN has been experimenting with better ways to present and distribute its content on the Web and on mobile. Essentially, they realized (or at least I hope they did) that their user experience on their digital properties wasn’t great and that others were sneaking up on and passing them — their dominance in TV notwithstanding. Yesterday, they launched a new… → Read More

    September 20th, 2012

    Taptu’s Acquisition By MediaFed Hints At Smart Move To Put The Heat On Flipboard And The Rest

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    Taptu, a competitor with Flipboard and Pulse in the ‘tablet news reader’ stakes, was aiming to be the new-new thing when it launched back in 2010. A few iterations and fund-raising’s later it’s fair to say that it concluded it was going to be tough to compete in that market. Today it’s announced its acquisition by Mediafed. Who, I hear you ask? London-based Mediafed has been around since 2007… → Read More

    September 8th, 2011

    Taptu Receives $3.5 Million in Series B, Will Launch White Label Social News Aggregator Tapform

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    Taptu, a social media and social search company, announced today its plans to expand beyond its current lineup of mobile apps in order to include a new, white label offering called Tapform. As the name implies, Tapform is a platform for publishers, developers and hardware manufacturers interested in building their own social news aggregator.

    The launch will be made possible by way of Taptu’s… → Read More

    August 12th, 2011

    Just In Time For The New NFL Season, Taptu Brings Fantasy Football To Mobile Readers

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    From its founding in 2007, Taptu was a startup that specialized in search and touch-based interfaces for mobile, launching a realtime mobile search engine in conjunction with OneRiot back in 2009, for example. In November of last year, however, the startup made the smart decision to bring its mobile search proficiency into the news reader market, launching Flipboard-like Android and iPhone apps… → Read More

    April 14th, 2011

    Taptu Brings A Personalized And Customizable Social News Reading App To The iPad

    Another day, another launch of a Flipboard-like news and social reader for the iPad. It seems like every day a new app launches that aims to offer a social news reading experience for the iPad, including Pulse, Summify, Flud and others. And today, Taptu is debuting its free iPad app, which offers a sleek, social news service for the tablet. Taptu has already offered the service on the Android and… → Read More

    November 8th, 2010

    My Taptu To Take On Flipboard And Pulse In The Touch Aggregator Stakes

    Touch interfaces for content and social media are, thanks to applications like Pulse and Flipboard – the ‘new new thing’. They are presenting streams of information in a far easier to digest manner and generating lots of engagement. Think how long you might spend on an app like Tweetdeck and then work out what would happen if that way of consuming went even more mainstream, especially on tablets… → Read More

    October 20th, 2010

    Taptu Switches Executives To Favor The U.S. As Touch Search Takes Off

    After what seems like an age of no news, mobile search and discovery company Taptu seems to be suddenly getting back in the game. Today it’s doing a Twitter-style switcheroo – founder and CEO Steve Ives is becomes president and will stay to focus on product, while COO and President Mitch Lazar, who only joined in March from his role as managing director of Yahoo! Mobile Europe, will become CEO. → Read More

    June 15th, 2010

    Taptu announces new U.S. office to be lead by new President, Mitch Lazar

    Taptu, the company indexing mobile touch friendly content, announces today that they’re opening an office in the U.S. to drive business development, marketing and product management in response to rapid growth in the North American audience. The new office, to be located in Denver, Colorado will be lead by Mitch Lazar, formerly of Yahoo! Mobile Europe. → Read More

    June 15th, 2010

    Taptu appoints ex-Yahoo mobile exec as COO to head up new US office

    Hoping to conquer America, touch-friendly mobile search engine Taptu is opening a US office in Denver, Colorado.

    But, perhaps more interesting, it’s to be headed up by former Yahoo Mobile European MD, Mitch Lazar, who joined the Taptu Board as recently as March.

    Not long in that role, his new title is President and Chief Operating Officer, which will see him “heading home” after 11 years in… → Read More

    June 15th, 2010

    Taptu Opens US Office, Taps Former Yahoo Mobile Europe Exec Mitch Lazar As COO

    Hoping to conquer America, touch-friendly mobile search engine Taptu is opening a US office in Denver, Colorado.

    But, perhaps more interesting, it’s to be headed up by former Yahoo Mobile European MD, Mitch Lazar, who joined the Taptu Board as recently as March.

    Not long in that role, his new title is President and Chief Operating Officer, which will see him “heading home” after 11 years in… → Read More

    May 12th, 2010

    The Mobile Web continues to expand, according to Taptu

    The proliferation of mobile content has caught Taptu (and a lot of other people) by surprise. Perhaps unsurprisingly the number of mobile applications has also increased rather dramatically. There’s an interesting balance to be struck for content producers between device-specific applications and app stores, and the general availability, but reduced functionality, of a mobile web site. Taptu’s… → Read More

    April 15th, 2010

    Ex-Yahoo Mobile MD joins Taptu as non-executive Director

    [UK] Cambridge, UK-based Taptu, the mobile search engine that targets the touch-friendly web, has appointed “industry veteran” and former Yahoo Mobile MD Mitch Lazar to its board as a non-executive director.

    Prior to Yahoo, Lazar “launched, ran and commercialized the mobile services and products” of various media brands, including Time Warner’s CNN, Cartoon Network and TCM. He also led the… → Read More

    February 3rd, 2010

    Mobile web may beat out mobile apps in the long run

    Taptu, the mobile search solution, has been keeping an eye on the mobile web — specifically what they’re calling the mobile touch web, which I guess is slightly different from the non-touch mobile web — and has produced a fairly comprehensive report of their findings. Of particular interest is the fact that “there are a higher proportion of shopping and services sites on the mobile touch Web… → Read More

    December 22nd, 2009

    Taptu iPhone app gets real-time search with OneRiot

    Taptu, the mobile search engine, announced a partnership with OneRiot last month to provide real time search results in their mobile-friendly web site. This worked from any mobile client, not just the iPhone. But one of the points of using a smartphone is the use of native applications. Today Taptu announced that they’ve rolled the real-time search results into their iPhone app. → Read More

    November 23rd, 2009

    Mobile-friendly search engine Taptu releases half-baked Android app

    [UK] Cambridge, UK-based Taptu, the mobile optimised search engine that, in particular, targets touch screen devices, has released a dedicated Android app. The service already offers a generic browser-based version for mobile phones, along with a native app for the iPhone which disappointingly for Android users, appears to be at least one generation ahead.

    After playing with the Android app for a… → Read More

    November 10th, 2009

    Taptu + OneRiot = realtime mobile search

    Taptu, the mobile search engine, is announcing today that they’re using the OneRiot search API to provide realtime search results to mobile devices at their touch-friendly mobile web page. The realtime search results will eventually make their way into the Taptu iPhone app. Full press release inside! → Read More

    June 16th, 2009

    iPhone app review: Taptu, the alternative search machine

    Everyone moans about the lack of Flash on the iPhone, right? Let’s face it: if someone makes a solid Flash implementation for the iPhone there would be substantially less interest in making native iPhone apps. You could create a rich user environment in the browser, and the iPhone App Store would be less and less relevant. As things stand now, I prefer native apps over browser apps for iPhone… → Read More

    February 11th, 2008

    Taptu: new search engine, new partner

    News out of Barcelona’s 3GSM conference today includes some from Taptu, the mobile search engine startup launched in the UK in October last year. It’s unveiling an improved version of its search engine and the ability for results to be shared with friends via email, mobile-to-mobile and Twitter. The formerly music and trivia-focused search engine also now adds news and travel to its… → Read More