tag: digital magazines

Zite’s new iOS app update welcomes (but doesn’t cater to) mournful Google Reader users

May 22, 2013 9:00 AM Tom Cheredar

Zite was one of the first companies to answer cries from loyal Google Reader users when the service was shuttered back in March, building a "replacement" in about six hours. Yet in the news reader's latest iOS app update, Zite's management team makes one thing very clear: it's time to let Google Reader die.

Flipboard brings its digital magazine creation tool to Android & the web

May 9, 2013 10:12 AM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

Flipboard users on the web and on Android devices no longer have to endure the tyranny of reading a digital magazine that was assembled by someone other than them.

Pulse’s new ‘Highlights’ feature makes sense of all that social news sharing

February 12, 2013 9:32 AM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

Digital news magazine app Pulse has always been good at making sense of the many news sources available online, but now it wants to cull the insanity of your social circle to find only the most popular articles and links.

Reddzine for iPad turns Reddit into a digital magazine

November 9, 2012 6:10 PM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

With the sheer volume of new submissions hitting community news sharing site Reddit everyday, it's hard to keep up. Reddzine's digital magazine interface could make the experience

Pulse’s new web reader looks like a pretty Windows 8 app

August 9, 2012 6:00 AM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

Digital magazine service Pulse released a new web app version of its popular mobile news reader today, which takes plenty of design cues from Microsoft's forthcoming Windows 8 software.

iPad-focused magazine The Daily axes a third of its staff

July 31, 2012 2:42 PM Sean Ludwig

Sean Ludwig

Digital magazine The Daily has laid off nearly a third of its staff to help the unprofitable publication save costs, parent company News Corp. announced today.

Since the launch of the The Daily in February 2011, people have wondered if …

Zite, after doubling engagement, adds more publisher sections (exclusive)

July 23, 2012 8:00 AM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

Zite is boosting the number of publishing partner sections available in its digital magazine mobile app after doubling the number of content impressions since first launching the program, the company told VentureBeat.

For those not familiar with it, Zite lets …

Pulse news app teases major announcement on its homepage

July 20, 2012 2:47 PM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

Mobile news aggregation service Pulse is planning a major announcement in the near future, according to the startup’s homepage.

Pulse updated its homepage earlier today to tease the announcement. Initially, users are shown a short animation of Pulse’s launch on …

News360 iPad app update offers a prettier way to read the news

July 10, 2012 10:20 AM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

Digital magazine service News360 launched a revamped version of its iPad app that offers a sleeker design, some refreshing user interface tweaks, and the possibility of stealing eyeballs away from its competitors.

News360 lets its users chose from a vast …

Zinio shares digital magazine usage data ahead of rumored sale (infographic)

June 29, 2012 12:48 PM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

It’s no secret that digital magazines are gaining a foothold among consumers, and thanks to some new consumer data released today digital magazine storefront Zinio we have a small window into how people are consuming these digital publications.

The company …

Wired and The New Yorker make their Flipboard streams less potent

June 25, 2012 12:03 PM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

Some of the most popular U.S. magazines are dialing down their efforts to publish content through Flipboard, reports Ad Age.

Flipboard is an ultra popular digital magazine app available on iOS and Android devices that places a publication’s content into …

YouTube co-founder’s digital magazine startup Zeen to launch next week

June 20, 2012 2:59 PM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

Most people who see a $1.65 billion exit of their company would be content to retire from the business world, but that’s rarely the case in the tech industry, as YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley demonstrates.

Hurley is scheduled to launch …

Google+ streams coming to Flipboard, but what about Google Currents?

June 19, 2012 7:17 AM Tom Cheredar

Tom Cheredar

Popular digital magazine app Flipboard is getting some attention from Google in the form of Google+ API support, the company announced today at the Le Web 2012 conference in London.

The support will give Flipboard users access to content streams …