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New webapp Trapit is like the Pandora of news reading. Add the topics that interest you to your "traps" and get fresh news and other articles filtered ...
VentureBeat provides news about innovation for forward-thinking executives. It covers a range of technology trends, from social media to mobile, clean technology, games and chips. We try to explain what these trends mean for business leaders, executives and other thought leaders in the industry. Stories help executives make better decisions regarding technology in both small businesses and enterprise, and help investors make better decisions about where to put their money. VentureBeat is engagingly written, not only profiling the companies behind innovation, but also the leading individual players setting those trends. Some of the companies it covers in depth include Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter, Zynga, Cisco, RIM, but it also covers pathbreaking start-up companies.
New webapp Trapit is like the Pandora of news reading. Add the topics that interest you to your "traps" and get fresh news and other articles filtered just for you based on the articles you like.
When we first reported on Twitter Discover, we called it “a game-changer” (see ourpost). That’s not journalistic hyperbole; more than a new feature, Discover marks Twitter’s official entry into curated news.
Discover lets you tap into a stream of useful and entertaining information, customized just for you.
When you use Discover, you’ll see results reflecting your interests—based on your current location, what you follow and what’s happening in the world. As you use Twitter more, Discover gets even better at serving up more content just for you.
Whatever you’re curious about, Discover will help you find out more.
Flipboard is one of the most popular digital magazine apps. We’ve learned this week that its iOS tablet version has been downloaded 4.5 million times – meaning it is now installed on a whopping one in ten iPads. Yet, Flipboard wasn’t available on Apple’s smartphones until a few days ago. When it finally released its long-awaited iPhone
Another player entered the mobile news reading space this week, and a huge one: Google. Its new app, Google Currents, is available in the US on Android and iOS
If you were impressed by Flipboard’s user base, it’s worth noting it’s not the only mobile news reader which has million users. So does Pulse, which should reach 10 million users by the end of the year, up from 1 million in January
Flipboard isn’t the only news reader who debuted an iPhone app this week: so didZite,
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