News360 puts ‘native advertising’ into its personal news app
Two popular trends — personalized news readers and native advertising — meet in a new ad product offered by News360. Read more »
Content personalization still has a long way to go
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Pointing people to “really interesting articles on the fringes of the internet that you had no idea existed or that you wanted” is still in its very early stages, according to Zite’s CEO and Prismatic’s CTO. Read more »
Why a LinkedIn acquisition of Pulse would make sense — content requires context
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If LinkedIn were to buy the Pulse news-recommendation app — something a number of reports say could be in the works — it would give the corporate social network a powerful way of filtering content for its users. Read more »
Who’s going to capture the social news reader market? Thirst throws its hat in the ring
A good number of companies are trying to create the best social reader for news and information, but no one’s really emerged a clear winner yet. Thirst is moving from a Twitter client to news reader in an attempt to capture part of the market. Read more at GigaOM »
Prismatic gets $15M to build a recommendation engine for the world
Prismatic, a San Francisco-based startup that uses machine-learning algorithms to recommend news and other content to users based on their social activity, has raised a $15-million Series A round from a star-studded group of investors including Accel Partners and Russian investor Yuri Milner. Read more at GigaOM »
Zite’s new Android update ditches support for large-screen tablets
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Personalized tablet magazine Zite is releasing a large upgrade to its Android app Tuesday afternoon. Among the changes: The end of support for large-screen Android tablets, enhanced sharing options and bug fixes. Read more »
Zite adds LA Times, Chicago Tribune, others to its publishers program
Personalized reading app Zite is adding additional publishers to its three-month-old publisher program. New additions include The Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Hearst’s “Harper’s Bazaar,” the International Business Times and others. All will have their own sections within Zite. Read more »
Read It Later’s app goes free and gets a new name, Pocket
Read It Later is making its app completely free — no more premium version — and renaming it Pocket to express the fact that users can save any type of content, not just articles. Read more »
The AP's New Apps: The Style, Substance And Strategy
The Associated Press this week unveiled snazzy updates to its popular news apps. Here’s a review plus a look at what the apps mean for the A… Read more »
Zite Brings Intel Inside Its Technology Section In Sponsorship Deal
Zite has cut a deal with Intel (NSDQ: INTC) to have the chip giant sponsor the technology section of its mobile news reading app, only the s… Read more »
Updated: Exclusive: AP Branches Out, Adds Pulse To Its Digital Mix
Over the years, the Associated Press has made a profile for itself by syndicating its news across thousands of newspapers both in the U.S. a… Read more »
Zite Joins Flipboard, Google On The iPhone In Crowded Week For News Apps
Fate probably wouldn’t have had it any other week: at the end of a week in which both Flipboard and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) unveiled updated tak… Read more »
New Feature From Zite Wonders How Many People Share Tablets
There’s little doubt that tablets are changing the concept of personal computing, but we’re still learning quite a bit about exactly how tha… Read more »
Look Out, Flipboard And Zite: Google Said To Be Working On News Reader App
Demand for slick news aggregation services on mobile devices has not escaped Google’s attention. According to reports, the company is planni… Read more »
Updated: CNN Snaps Up iPad Magazine Zite In Bid For Scale And Technology
As rumored a week ago, CNN has purchased Zite, the makers of a personalized iPad magazine application that aggregated content around user pr… Read more »
CNN Said To Be In Talks To Acquire iPad Magazine App Zite
Learning to play nicely with publishers may have helped iPad magazine startup Zite earn a payday. The company’s iPad app is reportedly the s… Read more »
@ pcMobile: How Time Inc, Zite, & CrowdFusion Manage Platform & App Fatigue
Content publishers are facing difficult choices about how to direct often limited resources to a growing number of platforms and business mo… Read more »
New Zite CEO Wants To Change Publishers’ First Impressions
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New Zite CEO Mark Johnson wasn’t totally surprised that his six-person startup received a cease-and-desist letter a few weeks ago from publi… Read more »
Zite Has A New CEO — And A Response To Cease & Desist Demands
A shuffle at Zite as the startup regroups following publishers’ negative reactions to its personalized magazine iPad app. Advisor Mark Johns… Read more »
The Consumer In Me Likes Zite; The Producer?
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Well, that was quick. About a month after Zite launched its “personalized iPad magazine” a slew of big-name publishers slapped the appmaker… Read more »
AP, WaPo, Other Big Media Companies Send Cease & Desist Over Zite App
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Just a few weeks after Zite launched its “social magazine” iPad app, it’s managed to put itself squarely in the crosshairs of the media indu… Read more »
Daily Mobile Lowdown: 7digital PlayBook; Nokia On Symbian; Foursquare; Zite
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Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile. Today, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) preloads 7digital on the PlayBook; Nokia’s still happy with Sym… Read more »
