New media incubator Betaworks has acquired Marco Arment’s popular read-it-later platform Instapaper. Betaworks acquired Digg last year, and the firm is focusing on both short-form and long-form content companies. Read more »
Craigslist has never released a mobile app, but Mokriya, a company that has worked on apps for Hipster and Sidecar, has licensed the classified site’s data for its new app, Mokriya… Read more »
In my quest to create a paperless home, I recently decided to digitize my recipe file. My goal was to create something easily searchable but also, hopefully, fun to browse, just… Read more »
A new survey from the Alliance for Audited Media (formerly the Audit Bureau of Circulations) finds that newspaper and magazine publishers’ digital businesses are gradually becoming profitable, and 63 percent say… Read more »
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… Read more »
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,… Read more »
As Time Out New York rolls out a new digital strategy, the company hopes its trusted editorial brand will outweigh New Yorkers’ possible app fatigue. Read more »
Content publishers are facing difficult choices about how to direct often limited resources to a growing number of platforms and business mo… Read more »