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Google Currents News Reader Debuts (Phew!)

Kara Swisher in Media on December 8, 2011 at 12:18 pm PT

There soon won’t be enough news for all the news readers.

Mike McCue Talks! Flipboard Finally Launches App for iPhone. (Video)

Kara Swisher in Mobile on December 6, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT

What took the popular social reader so long to go mobile? In any case, it’s finally here.

Spooking Flipboard: Yahoo’s Livestand — Followed by Google’s Propeller — Set to Launch Next Week

Kara Swisher in Media on October 28, 2011 at 5:35 am PT

Memo to Flipboard, Pulse, CNN’s Zite and AOL’s Editions: You might want to make some room in the crowded news and social reader space — you’re about to get some bigfoot company.

It’s Called Google Propeller and It’s Aimed at Flipboard (and Facebook, Too, Natch)

Kara Swisher in Media on September 15, 2011 at 5:25 pm PT

Whhhheeeeeeeee! Up, up in the sky, its Google’s Flipboard killer, which also might strafe Facebook, too!

Apple iPad News Reader Zite Sold to CNN for Just Over $20 Million

Kara Swisher in Media on August 30, 2011 at 10:06 am PT

Zite, the magazine-style reading app for the Apple iPad, has been sold to news giant CNN for $20 million to $25 million.

AOL Finally Ready With Editions, Its iPad Magazine

Ina Fried in Mobile on August 2, 2011 at 10:34 am PT

The “App For When You Crap,” as the publication has been dubbed inside AOL, is ready to arrive in bathrooms everywhere.

AOL Nearly Ready With Editions: The App for When You Crap

Ina Fried in Mobile on July 29, 2011 at 1:45 pm PT

The company is getting close to releasing its online magazine, at least if the toilet paper in the company’s restrooms is to be believed.

Exclusive: AOL’s Mobile Chief Talks With Mobilized, Offers a Glimpse of Editions

Ina Fried in Mobile on March 9, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

In an interview, David Temkin talks about the company’s latest mobile ventures and gives Mobilized a sneak peek at Editions, the company’s forthcoming personalized magazine for the iPad.

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U.K.'s Times Gives Tally of Digital Sign-Ups

Lilly Vitorovich, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 2, 2010 at 11:58 am PT

News Corp.’s U.K. newspaper division announced Tuesday that more than 100,000 readers have paid for digital editions of the Times and Sunday Times–with about half of those being monthly subscribers–following a move to put the newspapers’ content behind a paywall.

Strength in Numbers? News Corp. May Join Time Inc.’s “Hulu for Magazines.”

Peter Kafka in Media on November 11, 2009 at 1:12 pm PT

While Rupert Murdoch is busy thumbing his nose at Google, he is making more friendly overtures to other media players. Sources tell me his News Corp. may join the digital e-reader storefront that Time Inc. and other magazine publishers are putting together.