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Co-founder Evan Doll is no longer at Flipboard, the company has confirmed to TechCrunch and has just announced in a blog post. He will be joining Redpoint Ventures as an…

Flipboard Co-Founder Evan Doll Has Left The Company

In preparation for tonight’s first Republican presidential candidate debate, Flipboard is launching its first ever destination site, 2016 Election Central, to help users of the popular news curation app keep…

Flipboard Launches Its First Destination Site, 2016 Election Central

This week, top tech companies reported earnings, Twitter took away our backgrounds and we saw headlines about Uber, Tesla, and more. Here at TechCrunch HQ, we launched our newest and…

11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week

Flipboard has confirmed to us that it has raised $50 million, two days after we first reported that the company had authorized the shares earlier this year. JP Morgan was…

Flipboard Confirms New $50M Funding Round From JP Morgan

Flipboard’s 75 percent jump in the last six months has it clocking in at over 70 million monthly active users. And it looks like that is not the only recent…

Flipboard Has Filed To Raise Another $50M

Mobile news magazine app Flipboard may be putting on a brave face in the wake of new competition from iOS 9’s forthcoming News app, practically a Flipboard clone. But there’s…

Flipboard Users Can Now Add Their Own Voice, Opinions And Photos To Their Magazines

Flipboard, an online and mobile service that allows readers to explore content from around the web in a beautiful magazine-style layout as well as create topical, mobile magazines of their…

Flipboard Launches Private Magazines For Groups

Among the many new applications designed for Apple Watch, there are still a few big names who had yet to reveal how their apps will look and operate. One of…

Sneak Peek At Flipboard’s Apple Watch App

Just six months after being acqui-hired, the original team behind ‘visual storytelling’ app Ultravisual are leaving Flipboard to venture out on their own once again. The group’s yet-unnamed startup aims to…

The Ultravisual Team Acqui-Hired By Flipboard Leave To Found Apple Watch-Focused Messaging Startup

Flipboard is finally coming to the platform where most digital publishers start. After providing readers with beautiful, personalized mobile magazines on their mobile devices, the company is re-launching its web…

Flipboard Moves Beyond Mobile To Bring Its Personalized News Magazines To The Web
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Flipboard Adds More Ads

10:56 am PST • January 21, 2015

Social magazine platform Flipboard, which lets users aggregate content from multiple sources into a personalized digital publication, has launched a new ad format.

Flipboard Adds More Ads

Flipboard has spent the last several years tying to convince publishers the value of having their content show up in its apps. Today the Wall Street Journal, one of the…

Flipboard Adds The Wall Street Journal To Its News Discovery Apps

Gillmor Gang: Eating the World

10:00 am PDT • November 1, 2014

The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Thursday, October 30, 2014. A good news week, disguised as mobile, Facebook, and…

Gillmor Gang: Eating the World

Flipboard has been working hard over the last few years to build an app that makes reading stories on mobile and tablet devices as engaging as flipping through a magazine.…

Flipboard’s New App Gets Personal By Making Topics The Center Of Attention

Flipboard, the startup that lets you make a ‘personal magazine by aggregating your favourite online publications, blogs and social feeds, has acqui-hired the Technicolor-backed visual story-telling app Ultravisual to boost…

Flipboard Acqui-Hires Visual Storytelling Startup Ultravisual To Boost Content Curation Features

Earlier today Zite announced that it had been acquired for a second time – the first time CNN was the buyer, and this time around Zite’s main competitor Flipboard took…

Zite CEO Mark Johnson On How The Acquisition Helps Flipboard: “We Can Help Engagement, Help People Feel More Invested”

Mobile publishing startup Onswipe is releasing data today that looks at the popularity of mobile newsreading apps from the perspective of digital publishers. Onswipe’s platform allows publishers to create mobile-optimized…

Among News Apps, Flipboard Drives The Most Traffic For Publishers (According to Onswipe)

Social magazine Flipboard is rethinking how it organizes content for readers. Today the company is taking its first steps toward making its app feel more like the traditional magazines it…

Flipboard Mimics Magazines Further With A Shift To Structured Content, Revamped “Cover Stories”

Flipboard has confirmed that it raised an additional $50 million, which will close out the Series C round of financing that it brought on in September. According to a company…

Confirmed: Flipboard Raises Another $50 Million To Close Out Its Series C Round

Flipboard is inching into Pinterest’s territory today with the launch of a new “shopping” category which allows e-commerce brands turn their online stores into flippable, shoppable catalogs, complete with pricing…

Flipboard Debuts Catalogs, Shoppable Magazines Built By Brand Advertisers, Celeb Curators & Users, Too

Flipboard, the mobile-first “social” magazine that lets people tag, assemble and then share collections of stories from around the web, has now raised another $50 million at an $800 million…

Flipboard’s Mike McCue Confirms $50M Raise, Says Windows 8 App, More International Versions Coming By End Of Year

Nary a soul on the internet can resist a good GIF, but Flipboard browsers on iOS devices have been deprived until now. Today Flipboard has hooked up iOS users with…

Flipboard Updates iOS App With GIF Support

Looks like Flipboard is unhappy with Flowboard, the new “interactive storytelling” app from Treemo — specifically with the app’s name. In response to Flipboard’s complaints that the Flowboard name could…

Trademark Dispute Brewing Between Flipboard And Flowboard

Flipboard users counting on the social magazine to retain their Google Reader subscriptions after the service’s shutdown last night are waking up today to a bit of disappointment. Though Flipboard…

Flipboard Users’ Google Reader Feeds Missing, Transition Taking Longer Than Expected [Update]

At its Build developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer announced that Facebook, Flipboard and the NFL are about to launch their apps on Windows 8 and…

Official Facebook, Flipboard, And NFL Apps Are Coming To Windows 8/RT

Flipboard has just updated its iOS app to add a few more features for its 50 million+ readers. Back in March, Flipboard announced a new feature that would include user-created…

Flipboard Updates iOS App, Now Lets You Share Your Custom Magazine About Boats And Hoes With Friends

Today at Disrupt NY 2013, Flipboard CEO Mike McCue said that publishers are facing a huge reduction in ad revenues. Publishers have seen revenues go from dollars in print, to…

Mike McCue Wants Flipboard To Be The Home Of Brand Advertising For Mobile Publishers

Flipboard CEO Mike McCue took the stage at Disrupt NY 2013 today to talk about his company and the changing nature of media and publishing, and he revealed updated stats…

Flipboard Now At 56M Users, Adding 6M In One Month Since 2.0 Launch

Reading app Readability once butted heads with Apple on subscription rules, but more recently its friction points have been in competition with apps like Instapaper, Pocket, Pulse, and Flipboard, who…

Readability Launches Top Reads, An Online Magazine Aggregating The Platform’s Most-Read Content

Flipboard this week announced a new version of its app that allows anyone to make a “Magazine,” which is a curated collection of stories based on any topic that you can…

Kicking Off Our Flip Off — Meet The “TechCrunch Weekly” Magazine On Flipboard