With 35M saved items per month, Pocket’s latest update rethinks sharing

Pocket, the service formerly known as Read It Later, completely overhauls how you share things across all its platforms.

Summly, Pocket point the way to publishing’s revival — or its complete destruction

Readers have more control than ever over the content that they reader, with tools to reformat web pages, remove ads, and save them for later. How should publishers respond?

Pocket embraces publishers with reader analytics, ‘Save to Pocket’ site buttons, and more

The future of publishing is doomed. Or perhaps, we're simply in the middle of a publishing transition that we don't fully understand yet.

Funding Daily: VC helping hands lead to startup happy feet

Good thing we start happy hour late here at VentureBeat, or we would have missed Fab.com’s big news yesterday afternoon. In other $100+ announcements, Penguin took an independent, self-publishing platform under its wing, and Microsoft and Yammer sealed the deal. …

Facebook snaps up the team behind content saving app Spool

Facebook announced this morning that it has acquired the team behind Spool, which developed an app to save content for viewing later, similar to Instapaper and Pocket.

In a blog post this morning, Spool co-founder and CEO Avichal Garg said …

Hands on with Instapaper for Android

When I heard Instapaper unveiled an Android app Monday, I quickly made my way to the Google Play store, forked over $2.99, and downloaded the app, which lets you save long articles to read offline later. My excitement fizzled after …

Bitly launches new site, makes link shortening more complicated

Updated at 3:40pm PDT with a response from Bitly about negative reactions to the redesign

The simple link-shortening service Bitly just got a major redesign. What started as a way to make long links short enough to fit into a …

Flipboard turns up the volume and adds audio content, SoundCloud support

The problem with most magazines is that they’re just too quiet. Flipboard, the gorgeous iPad and iPhone reading app, is teaming up with SoundCloud to add audio content to its mix of news, photos, and social media.

The partnership kicks …

Introducing Pocket: Read It Later gets a makeover with a new name and redesigned apps

See you later, Read It Later. The bookmarking app for web, Android, and iOS just changed its name to Pocket and launched redesigned versions of its apps.

Read It Later was originally designed to save articles on websites and social …