I met Sandeep Ayyappan after he contacted me about his start-up, Wiser, and we hoteled for an hour in New York City during the recent Techcrunch Disrupt conference. I thought Wiser,… Read more »
Flipboard, a leading mobile news-reading and content-sharing app, is acquiring one of its main competitors — an app called Zite — from CNN for a reported $60 million and forming an… Read more »
Facebook is launching a standalone app called Paper that takes content from the network and turns it into a newspaper-style platform, driven partly by algorithms and partly by human editors. It… Read more »
The former owners of the Washington Post have relaunched a news-curation and recommendation app called Trove, which they hope will encourage users to find and share content in new ways –… Read more »
Facebook is reportedly working on a mobile news-reading app. Details are scant, but according to a WSJ report, the current iteration of the app has a Flipboard-like interface. Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »