One of my pet peeves with most of the newsreader apps — and even the big social media platforms — is the frequency with which they make your choices for you. You might decide to follow, say, The New York Times, Axios, and BGR, among other publishers. And your platform of choice will certainly show …
The Flipboard app is rolling out a major expansion starting today — the addition of local news content from more than 1,000 cities and towns. Flipboard offered local news content from just 60 metro areas as recently as October. Flipboard’s updated new local content will be available by downloading the latest version of the app …
On Thursday, the Flipboard news app is rolling out the latest in a series of big changes that the app has unveiled so far in 2020. The app’s video product, Flipboard TV, is now free and ad-supported for all users, and Flipboard also has signed up a ton of new publishers and content creators for it. …
Apple News and Flipboard have been fighting for primacy among consumers who seek out apps focused exclusively on news consumption. Flipboard has been differentiating itself lately with new features like a greater emphasis on local news content. That’s something that Apple News has now decided to go after, as well. In addition to local news …
The latest Flipboard app update has made the news aggregation service so much more useful, especially for getting packages of content that catch you up quickly on things like Apple’s big WWDC 2020 event today. Flipboard’s new Storyboard tool is meant to collect packages of finite content into one place. Unlike Flipboard’s magazines, this tool …
In the age of the coronavirus and with other major news stories reshaping our world right now including everything from Trump administration policies to the Black Lives Matter movement, mobile apps like Apple News and Flipboard have become more useful than ever. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at the features of both, …
If you caught the headlines on Tuesday about the departure of the head of business for Apple’s news app, which added a paid tier last year and is trying to convince people to pay $10/month as part of the iPhone maker’s deeper push into subscription products, it might have left a certain impression with you …
Apple’s unveiling of a Flipboard-like news hub during its annual developer conference Monday didn’t come as a surprise to the team behind the now 5-year-old news reader and content curation app. Not only has Flipboard “known about this product for a while,” CEO Mike McCue told BGR, but his company has in fact had Apple’s …
Apple at WWDC today will take the wraps off a new Flipboard competitor, according to a recent report from Re/Code. Apple’s new app will reportedly include a “sampling” of content from big time publishers such as ESPN and Conde Nast.
For some context about how far the content consumption platform Flipboard has come in its now five-year history, start with a number: 15 million. That’s how many “magazines” – collections of content ranging from news stories to sound files to YouTube clips – Flipboard users have created within the service since Flipboard’s launch in 2010, …
