Flipboard expands its local coverage to more than 1,000 cities and towns
News aggregator Flipboard‘s local coverage is making what product lead Brian Gottesman described as a “quantum leap,” expanding from 60 topics (a.k.a. cities, towns and communities t
Flipboard brings its ad-supported ‘Flipboard TV’ video service to all users
News app Flipboard is further expanding into video with Flipboard TV. The company’s curated video service first launched earlier this year as a Samsung exclusive, and is now making its way to al
Effx raises $3.9M for its DevOps monitoring platform
Effx, a startup that aims to give developers better insights into their microservice architectures, today announced that it has raised a $3.9 million funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and Cowboy Ve
Apple News adds new audio features, including a daily briefing, alongside expanded local coverage
Apple News is getting a significant upgrade. The news aggregation app, which ships preinstalled on Apple devices, is introducing several new features for readers and premium subscribers, including aud
Flipboard rolls out Storyboards as a new way to highlight content
Flipboard is giving news publishers and other curators on the platform a new way to highlight content through a format called Storyboards. Until now, Flipboard has largely focused on its Smart Magazi
Flipboard expands local news coverage to reach 50 cities across US and Canada
In January, personalized news app Flipboard announced it was expanding into local news. From the new “Local” tab in the app, Flipboard users can now keep up with their local news publicati
News-reading app Flipboard expands local coverage, including coronavirus updates, to 12 more US metros
Earlier this year, personalized news aggregation app Flipboard expanded into local news. The feature brought local news, sports, real estate, weather, transportation news and more to 23 cities across
Flipboard expands into local news
Flipboard, the personalized news aggregation app used by 145 million users per month, is today launching a new feature aimed at bringing local news coverage to 23 cities across the U.S. and Canada, in
Flipboard hacks prompt password resets for millions of users
Social sharing site and news aggregator Flipboard has reset millions of user passwords after hackers gained access to its systems several times over a nine-month period. The company confirmed in a not
Flipboard launches a new tech section
With recent changes, Flipboard has been placing a big emphasis on allowing readers to go deep on their interests. Now it’s adding even more features around one particular interest, in the Techn
Flipboard opens up to more publishers by embracing the mobile web
Flipboard is changing the way it works with online publishers, thanks to two connected announcements. First, publishers no longer need to work directly with Flipboard in order to get their stories int
Videos are getting a bigger role on Flipboard
Flipboard is following the launch of its “smart magazines” by boosting the role of videos. It’s not that videos were totally absent from the news app before this, but they usually sh
Flipboard revamps its approach personalized news with new “Smart Magazines”
Flipboard is releasing a big update today, which introduces “Smart Magazines” — a new way for people to find news stories and other content tied to their interests. CEO Mike McCue said the big g
Flipboard looks to boost native ad sales with swipe-friendly Storyboards
Flipboard, the mobile and web app that lets you aggregate, discover and read content from around the web in a magazine-style format, is unveiling its latest “native” product to court more
Flipboard confirms it will get cut off from Instagram after the feed API ends this month
As Instagram continues to make moves to strengthen its platform with more features to keep users visiting it and staying longer, Instagram’s decision to kill off its feed API on June 1 has cl
Flipboard Overhauls Publisher Pages With Verified Badges, ‘End Card’ Links And Ad Tech
Flipboard, the mobile and web app with some 82 million monthly active users who use the app to read content from around the web in a magazine-style layout, is today taking the wraps off a new versi
Flipboard Launches A New Targeted Ads Product Based On Its Interest Graph
Flipboard today is opening up some better targeting to its advertising partners in the form of the advertising based on the interest graphs it has built for its users. Here’s an example: an adv
Flipboard Co-Founder Evan Doll Has Left The Company
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 entrepreneur-in-residence. His
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 a
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