Pulse

Facebook’s “Social Readers” Still Fading

Peter Kafka in Social on May 22 at 7:00 am PT

The Washington Post and Guardian apps see another steep drop in usage. Great news.

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.

News Byte

Tablet Reading Apps Zite, Pulse Strike Publisher Deals

Peter Kafka in Media on April 4 at 9:00 am PT

More tablet experimentation from publishers, this time via reading apps Pulse and Zite. Pulse, which already offered readers excerpts from Bonnier’s Popular Science magazine, will now be doing that with 20 other Bonnier titles. And Zite will be bringing content from eight publishers — including VentureBeat, CNN and AOL’s Huffington Post — to its apps.

Pulse Creates a One-Stop Shop for Election News

Liz Gannes in Media on January 31 at 5:00 am PT

Want to pull yourself out of the “filter bubble” and read political news from a wide variety of sources?

Digital Pen Maker Livescribe Lands New Funding, Taps Ex-HP Exec as New CEO

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 18 at 9:00 pm PT

The maker of the Echo and Pulse smartpens says Gilles Bouchard has replaced founder Jim Marggraff as chief. The company has also lined up $10 million in new funding.

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.

News Byte

Our Algorithms Are Better Than Your Algorithms: News360 App Personalizes

Liz Gannes in Social on August 10, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

News360, a well-loved news reading app for various devices, is relaunching today for iPad, Honeycomb and Web, having updated its apps to include more personalization features. There are many other personalized news readers — Flipboard, Zite, Pulse, etc. — but News360′s pitch is that it delivers deeper and more relevant content based on its semantic analysis technology.