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 Launches Its First Destination Site, 2016 Election Central
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…
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week
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…
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’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 Users Can Now Add Their Own Voice, Opinions And Photos To Their Magazines
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, 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…
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…
The Ultravisual Team Acqui-Hired By Flipboard Leave To Found Apple Watch-Focused Messaging Startup
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…
Flipboard Moves Beyond Mobile To Bring Its Personalized News Magazines To The Web
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…
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 The Wall Street Journal To Its News Discovery Apps
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…
Gillmor Gang: Eating the World
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…
Flipboard’s New App Gets Personal By Making Topics The Center Of Attention
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 Acqui-Hires Visual Storytelling Startup Ultravisual To Boost Content Curation Features
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…
Zite CEO Mark Johnson On How The Acquisition Helps Flipboard: “We Can Help Engagement, Help People Feel More Invested”
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…
Among News Apps, Flipboard Drives The Most Traffic For Publishers (According to Onswipe)
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…
Flipboard Mimics Magazines Further With A Shift To Structured Content, Revamped “Cover Stories”
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…
Confirmed: Flipboard Raises Another $50 Million To Close Out Its Series C Round
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…
Flipboard Debuts Catalogs, Shoppable Magazines Built By Brand Advertisers, Celeb Curators & Users, Too
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’s Mike McCue Confirms $50M Raise, Says Windows 8 App, More International Versions Coming By End Of Year
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…
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…
Trademark Dispute Brewing Between Flipboard And Flowboard
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…
Flipboard Users’ Google Reader Feeds Missing, Transition Taking Longer Than Expected [Update]
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…
Official Facebook, Flipboard, And NFL Apps Are Coming To Windows 8/RT
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…
Flipboard Updates iOS App, Now Lets You Share Your Custom Magazine About Boats And Hoes With Friends
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…
Mike McCue Wants Flipboard To Be The Home Of Brand Advertising For Mobile Publishers
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…
Flipboard Now At 56M Users, Adding 6M In One Month Since 2.0 Launch
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…
Readability Launches Top Reads, An Online Magazine Aggregating The Platform’s Most-Read Content
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…
Kicking Off Our Flip Off — Meet The “TechCrunch Weekly” Magazine On Flipboard
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…