The social news-reader Flud isn’t just for iOS fans anymore: the company recently launched both Android and Windows Phone apps. And now, it’s planning to raise up to $8 million in a new round of funding.
Like competitors Pulse and …
UPDATE 3/21/2012: We’ve updated this story with the correct name of Localytics.
As our culture shifts from a desktop-based paradigm to a mobile one, news junkies are leading the trend with their consumption habits.
New data from app analytics firm …
News.me is a service from the New York-based innovation lab betaworks that filters users’ Twitter and Facebook streams to deliver them the most interesting stories they might have missed. It started out on the iPad only, but today it is …
Once the heir apparent to Rupert Murdoch’s throne, James Murdoch is stepping down from his role as executive chairman at News International, following the hacking scandals that continue to provoke investigations and arrests in Great Britain.
James Murdoch “Will continue …
And now, it’s time for a few tasteful jokes (and at least one tasteless one) about the week’s tech headlines.
Here are the stories we highlighted this week:
Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz launched a startup focused on caregivers. Microsoft
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Skyrim is awesome; Pinterest users need to calm the hell down; and Facebook users need to stay away from the gun cabinet.
In this week’s episode of VB Weekly, the VentureBeat writing staff takes a front seat, with a range …
A new Pew Research Center study shows that the behavior of tablet owners is changing significantly when it comes to consuming news, for good and bad.
Several studies have already shown that tablets create a higher level of engagement than …
In a world where information overload is driving us further apart, a startup called Loku has launched a technology to connect neighbors to their community and help people find cool things to do nearby.
Loku boils down huge feeds of …
According to Facebook, European publication The Guardian expects to have one million installs of its Facebook application by this weekend.
Facebook announced the news applications feature at its developer conference f8 in September. The point of news apps is to …
News reading app Instapaper launched a major update Monday for iOS devices that dramatically revamps its design and adds several new features, including Wikipedia integration.
Instapaper was already a handy tool for those who read a lot of news because …
The Huffington Post Media Group‘s explosive expansion is paying off. It has surpassed one billion page views in August, All Things Digital reports.
Additionally, HuffPo has acquired Localocracy, which describes itself as “an online town common where registered voters using …
ABC News will begin distributing its news content through Yahoo, it announced today.
The partnership with ABC News would be a return to form of sorts for Yahoo, which was originally born as a portal site that would direct viewers …
Brian Lam, the former editor of Gizmodo who took the site from a few million pageviews a month to more than 100 million, is launching a new site.
Called Wirecutter, it is a consumer-focused tech site. Unlike other gadget sites, …
iPad users have yet another news magazine app option with the launch of Evri’s new app on the tablet today, but Evri hopes to stand out from the pack thanks to its unique topic discovery engine.
Evri says its iPad …
Google News introduced a new metadata tag to help news publications highlight their original, quality content. The announcement, made today at the Online News Associate conference in Boston, is the latest attempt by Google News to help readers find relevant …
Facebook is focusing on integrating news discovery based on your friends’ activity in the news feed, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today at f8, the company’s annual developers conference.
Zuckerberg’s keynote presentation focused on the influence you have over your friends, …
News aggregation site Digg unveiled Newsrooms today, a new section of the site that features automatically curated news content on specific topics like technology or politics.
Here’s how it works: Digg takes content from a number of sites it curates, …
Street Fight, a trade publication geared toward businesses that focus on hyper-local deals, has closed an undisclosed funding round, VentureBeat has learned.
The publication covers businesses like AOL’s Patch, which reports on local businesses and news, and Groupon, which delivers …
Michael Arrington, founder of technology blog TechCrunch and known for his fiery personality and zero tolerance for corporate authority, has “decided” to move on from the San Francisco-based tech news publication.
“It’s no longer a good situation for me to …
Michael Arrington, founder of technology blog TechCrunch and known for his fiery personality and zero tolerance for corporate authority, is no longer with the San Francisco-based tech news publication, according to a report by Fortune.
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