Mobile news apps are hot. Summly just sold for a ridonkulous amount of money, for example. So what’s up with the “atomic bits” list-makers of the San Francisco?
There is a growing feeling that the social communications companies are on a product collision course, with a possible troubled or perhaps more attractive result.
As numbers trend toward more “Unfriending” on Facebook, the social network is looking to tidy up your news feed with stuff that you’re actually interested in.
I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., to check out “Product Runway,” which is the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s attempt to show that it can still innovate.
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.