Kara Swisher in News on March 26 at 10:43 am PT
His love of the sea goes on (and deep this time).
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on February 7 at 5:40 pm PT
Katie looks at the new iBooks 2 app which offers enhanced educational textbooks that are, for now, focused on high-school students.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on January 24 at 3:26 pm PT
Katie looks at Subtext, a free iPad app designed to enable and encourage conversations among readers within digital books themselves.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on December 6, 2011 at 9:05 pm PT
Until now, personalized-reading apps have been mostly found on tablets like the iPad, but Wednesday, the first of those apps moves to the smartphone for reading on the go.
Kara Swisher in News on October 1, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT
Here’s some electric weekend reading for those interested in the push-and-pull between venture investors and start-ups in the frothy Web 2.0 environment.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on September 28, 2011 at 6:02 pm PT
The Encyclopaedia Britannica is set to launch a slick iPad app containing its entire contents at a greatly reduced price: $2 a month.
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.
Kara Swisher in Media on July 24, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
Social reading app Flipboard has partnered with magazine giant Condé Nast to offer a slew of magazines with branded advertising from major marketers.
Kara Swisher in News on April 14, 2011 at 1:23 pm PT
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard.
Today, its co-founder and CEO Mike McCue confirmed a $50 million round at an eye-popping $200 million valuation, in a wide-ranging interview at the start-up’s Palo Alto, Calif., HQ.
Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 3:24 pm PT
A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app.
The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty, Time, Dow Jones and many other media organizations were part of the copyright violations action, which you can read all about after the jump.
