In a world where it isn’t always clear who or what to trust when it comes to getting news on the internet, Mike McCue says he has an answer. A new update to his social news reading app Flipboard adds a feature that lets you tell the company details about the topics you find interesting. …
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Flipboard, a popular news aggregator app, introduced on Tuesday a suite of new curation features, including analytical tools that allow creators of its virtual magazines to refine content to suit their audiences. The new Curator Pro tools give individuals, bloggers and publishers who create Flipboard magazines, which are managed collections of story links, a range of data on engagement and …
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It’s now been more than 10 years since former Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad. The move firmly pushed tablets into the mainstream gadget conversation while leading many to ask, “What the heck is this giant iPod touch?” (Oh 2010, you sweet summer child.) In a review of the first-gen iPad that year, CNET’s Donald Bell described the device …
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Flipboard, a popular news aggregator app, introduced on Thursday a curation feature that allows publishers to quickly create packages of stories, images and videos that focus on a specific event or issue. The packages, known as Storyboards, are customizable and give publishers flexibility to assemble mini-packages that are similar to special reports. Storyboards are presented in a scroll that publishers …
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Flipboard, the popular news aggregator app, is introducing a new subscription video service. Called Flipboard TV, the service will sit inside the Flipboard app and contain professional short-form video from more than 100 publishers at launch. The ad-free service will cost $2.99 per month. The launch of the video service is timed to coincide with the debut of Samsung’s new …
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In an era of social hyperconnectivity, even careful curators can find their Facebook and Twitter feeds bulging under the weight of trolls, clickbait artists and the occasional irate relative. Quality news sources are often left to muscle their way into view against an imperfect algorithm, all while new links are being discovered between depression and social media use. One of …
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Samsung last Wednesday offered the first glimpse of its upcoming foldable phone, saying it’ll be mass produced “in the coming months.” Justin Denison, Samsung senior vice president of mobile marketing, showed off the phone, which is a tablet when it’s fully opened and then a phone when it’s closed. It uses a new display technology called Infinity Flex Display that …
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Flipboard wants to get personal. The maker of the news aggregator app unveiled a major redesign on Wednesday, its biggest update in two years. The crux of the update is a change in how Flipboard organizes the stories it shows you. Instead of just grouping articles on several different subjects into one big digital “magazine,” Flipboard’s 100 million monthly users …
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