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Tweeter’s Digest: Twitter Rolls Out Weekly Recap Emails

Mike Isaac in Social on May 14 at 2:53 pm PT

For those not used to real-time Twitter news, there’s a compact version available.

Flipboard CEO McCue Likely to Step Down From Twitter Board Over Potential Future Conflicts (Or Closer Cooperation)

Kara Swisher in News on May 7 at 1:37 pm PT

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.

Flipboard for Android Makes a Cameo at Samsung’s Galaxy S III Launch

Ina Fried in Mobile on May 3 at 3:58 pm PT

Flipboard confirms an Android version is “coming soon” for select models, after Samsung showed the newsreader running on its new Galaxy S III.

Read It Later Trades in Its Literal Name for the More Open-Ended “Pocket”

Liz Gannes in News on April 17 at 7:30 am PT

The most popular source of content on the service Read It Later is YouTube. Thus, its once eminently grokkable name didn’t make as much sense anymore.

L.A. Stories: What’s the Frequency for Web Video Discovery? (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on April 9 at 9:04 am PT

Tuning in with the Los Angeles-based social TV Guide for online video.

Insight Leads $165 Million Round in Cloud-Based Energy Database Company Drilling Info

Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 5 at 6:05 am PT

As the U.S. gets closer to energy independence, the investment around oil and gas exploration and the technology that helps get it done, are, well, gushing.

Frequency, a TV Guide for Web Video, Tries a New Look

Peter Kafka in Media on January 8 at 7:00 pm PT

Along with an iPad app and a Samsung TV deal. It will need all that and more to fight off Google TV and a long list of competitors.

Zite Jumps to the Small Screen, Too

Liz Gannes in Mobile on December 9, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

The iPad is famous for being a content-consumption device. But its smaller sibling can be a good place to read, too.

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.

News Byte

Google’s News Reader — Now Called Currents — Finally Coming

Kara Swisher in Media on December 8, 2011 at 8:53 am PT

I was wrong about the rollout timing — I had reported mid-November (sorry, Sean!) — but Google’s entrant into the news reader space is finally set to launch as soon as tomorrow. Sources said the product, which was codenamed Propeller and will compete with a spate of competitors such as Flipboard and Yahoo’s Livestand, is now called Currents (I had gotten that one right!). As in current events. Get it?