13 posts and columns on Instapaper

Spool Raises Funding to Help You Take the Web Offline

in Social on January 4 at 5:00 am PT

Spool, which offers a nifty service for saving Web videos and articles for later viewing offline on mobile devices, has raised $1 million.
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Great Expectations: Going Off the Social Media Grid

in Social on August 22, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

Going off the social media grid can have as much of an impact on the recipients of a person’s status updates as it does on the traveler.
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No Longer a One-Man Shop, Read It Later Raises $2.5M

in Media on July 26, 2011 at 12:00 pm PT

The informatively named content-saving start-up Read It Later, which for most of its four years has been a one-man labor of love and ramen, has raised Series A funding of $2.5 million from Foundation Capital, Baseline Ventures, Google Ventures, Founders Collective and various angels.
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Apple Flatters Instapaper. Did It Kill It?

“Shit”

Instapaper developer Marco Arment, via Twitter, shortly after Apple announced “Reading List”, a new iOS 5 feature that appears to closely mirror the features in Arment’s popular iOS app. The silver lining, per Arment: “At least they’re hitting a lot of other apps too. Could be worse.” And then this: “Glad I’ve invested in social and editorial features. Not dead yet!”

Apps for Androids

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on May 11, 2011 at 6:00 pm PT

Walt answers a reader’s question on Apple-compatible apps for Android tablets.

TripIt Travel Planner Bought by Concur for $82 Million-Plus

in Social on January 13, 2011 at 11:02 am PT

Expense reporting company Concur today announced it would buy travel planning start-up TripIt in a deal worth as much as $120 million, including $82 million in cash, stock and restricted stock units up front.

Saving Web Articles

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on November 3, 2010 at 4:09 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ questions on saving Web articles, virus concerns and Wi-Fi-free Internet connections.

Condé Nast's iPad Apps Are Too Portly. Blame Adobe.

in Media on September 28, 2010 at 12:37 pm PT

The Wired iPad app has a weight problem. And Condé Nast’s newest iPad app, from the New Yorker, isn’t much better. The apps are due for a slim-down–as soon as Adobe figures out how to make that happen.

Do Magazines Need Their Own Kindle? Yes, Says Hearst.

in Media on February 27, 2009 at 8:54 am PT

If the Kindle is the iPod for books, do we need a Kindle for magazines and newspapers? I’d say no. But publishing heavyweight Hearst disagrees and is going to come out with an e-reader of its own, according to a published report.
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