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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Flipboard, the high-profile tablet app-maker, has hired Hulu's former chief technology officer to be Chief Executive Mike McCue's No. 2.
reuters.com (4 months and 11 days ago)
Social news magazine Flipboard this week introduced Version 2.0, with more content, faster navigation, and in-app user-curated periodicals.
pcmag.com (2 months and 25 days ago)

While the first iteration of Flipboard focused exclusively on consumption and discovery, Flipboard 2.0, out today, adds a new dimension to the experience: content creation and curation.
wired.com (2 months and 26 days ago)

Following Google’s rollout of a new Hangouts service for mobile and Google+, the company is giving Gmail users the opportunity to replace Google Chat with Hangouts integration. But heavy users of Google Voice may want to hold off on the switch, because the new Hangouts feature kills your capability to send SMS messages and make voice calls to landline and mobile numbers...
pcworld.com (30 days ago)

The new Google Hangouts brings together all of Google's messaging services and will soon see SMS integration. So where does this leave Google Voice in the big picture?
gigaom.com (1 month and 3 days ago)

Flipboard, one of the iPad‘s defining applications, is built atop a simple premise: the stuff your friends and other citizens of the web create and collect is interesting and deserves to be presented in a beautiful, browsable form, with big photos and slick typography. That’s why the app, which is also available for the iPhone and Android, calls itself a “social magazine.”...
time.com (2 months and 26 days ago)

Yammer plans to roll out an integration with the SkyDrive Pro cloud storage product and the Office Web Apps Web-hosted productivity application suite this summer. The initiative is part of Yammer's ongoing push to deepen and extend the integration of its cloud-hosted enterprise social-networking software with products from Microsoft, which acquired Yammer last July for...
pcworld.com (3 months and 29 days ago)

I was away on vacation when Google pulled the plug on Google Reader, which I suppose is a good time for Google to kill something I use every day. I wouldn’t say I’m irate about it, but it certainly might complicate things for me. Google’s official stance is, “While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined.” There’s some scuttlebutt that the move...
time.com (2 months and 26 days ago)

Flipboard unveiled a major upgrade to its iOS app on Wednesday, including the ability to create your own magazine. The popular personalized news app has long allowed users to visualize RSS feeds, Twitter streams and Facebook streams, but now you can create your own streams by adding articles, photos and videos of your choosing. It's a natural progression for the app that now...
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 25 days ago)

Having attracted 50m users so far, can news app's Pinterest-like new features make it even more mainstream?When it first launched in July 2010, Flipboard was an interesting new spin on news aggregation: an iPad app that turned people's Twitter and Facebook feeds into a digital magazine.Since then, it has added other social sources like Instagram, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Google+...
guardian.co.uk (2 months and 26 days ago)
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