Six digital publishing startups to watch
Want some different options for blogging and digital publishing? Here are six startups to check out. Read more »
Evernote Food adds OpenTable integration and recipe sharing
Evernote updated the Evernote Food app with Foursquare and OpenTable integration, recipe sharing and some other new features. Read more at GigaOM »
Text-to-speech startup iSpeech launches publisher platform; Evernote, Pearson first clients
Text-to-speech startup iSpeech is rolling out tools for publishers that let them convert books and articles to audio. The first two clients are Pearson and Evernote. Read more at GigaOM »
Yahoo gets hip to entrepreneurs and puts Max Levchin on its board
Yahoo has added Max Levchin, a Silicon Valley star, to its board of directors giving it a much-needed entrepreneurial and engineering-savvy board member. The web portal will also see two of its existing directors leave, shrinking the board to 11 members. Read more at GigaOM »
Betaworks’ Findings shifts to web clipping, as Amazon bans Kindle clips
Betaworks’ Findings.com started out as a service to share passages from Kindle books, but with Amazon cracking down on that functionality, the company will now focus on clipping and sharing content from the web. Read more at GigaOM »
Sony outs new Reader PRS-T2 with Evernote, Facebook sharing
Sony’s newest e-reader, the Reader PRS-T2, may appeal mainly due to the $129 price tag. But the ability to share passages on Facebook and integration with Evernote make it even better. Evernote is superb for clipping web content for viewing later on nearly any device. Read more at GigaOM »
ProQuest’s Udini is a cloud-based research tool for regular people
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Online research database ProQuest’s usual customers are libraries and other large institutions that can afford to pay a lot for access. ProQuest’s new cloud-based tool, Udini, aims to make Internet research easy and affordable for everyday people — and builds in some Evernote and Instapaper-inspired features. Read more »
Evernote & Pinterest just had a baby: Enter the new Springpad
Springpad has long been compared to Internet note-taking sensation Evernote, but starting today Springpad will likely be compared to another darling of the startup world, Pinterest. On Wednesday Springpad evolved into its third iteration, transforming the information capture service into a social networking engine. Read more at GigaOM »
Evernote's New Hello And Food Apps Take Organizer To New Competitive Ground
Evernote has been one of the darlings of the app revolution, with a popular free service across multiple plaforms and used for all manner of… Read more »
Longreads Founder Partners With Read It Later
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Longreads founder Mark Armstrong is bringing his long-form journalism curation skills to Read It Later, where he is signing on as editorial… Read more »
Take Note: New $50 Million Funding Round For Evernote
With more and more people accessing the Internet from multiple devices, central storage services that tie those devices together are becomin… Read more »
Multimedia Note Taking Service Evernote Raises $20 Million
Multimedia note-taking service Evernote has raised $20 million in a third round led by new backer Sequoia Capital. With Evernote, users can… Read more »
VC Watch: MyOnID Funded, Evernote Bags $5 Million
– MyOnID The Munich-based web people search engine has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Deutsche Telekom’s T-Online Venture Fun… Read more »
Evernote Gets $5 Million Second Round For Web Clip Service
Evernote, a web- and app-based personal info storage service, has raised a $5 million second funding round from Russia’s Troika Partners. Th… Read more »
