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Flipboard users can now see their new followers and other activity around the content they share in the fediverse directly in the Flipboard app.

Flipboard deepens its ties to the open source social web (aka the fediverse)

The fediverse just got a little bigger today as Flipboard has now launched over 1,000 of its social magazines across the decentralized social web, allowing its curators and publishers to…

Flipboard just brought over 1,000 of its social magazines to Mastodon and the fediverse

Instagram Threads isn’t the only app joining the decentralized social web, which includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and other apps, with its newly added support for the networking protocol ActivityPub. Today,…

Flipboard becomes a federated app with support for ActivityPub

Social magazine app Flipboard had already committed to joining the “fediverse” — the decentralized social web, which includes apps like Mastodon. Now, it’s doubling down on those ambitions with an…

Flipboard stops tweeting, launches new podcast about decentralized social apps

Social magazine app Flipboard has introduced a custom feed for the decentralized social network Bluesky. The company said that the “Tech by Flipboard” feed is a curated feed by the…

Flipboard introduces a custom feed for Bluesky

Social magazine app Flipboard is continuing its investment in the federated social web with today’s news that it’s integrating with decentralized social networks Bluesky and Pixelfed. The move will allow…

Flipboard becomes first app to support Bluesky, Mastodon and Pixelfed all in one place

Magazine app Flipboard is furthering its investment in the Fediverse — the distributed social media ecosystem that includes apps like Mastodon and others — with its newly announced plan to establish…

Flipboard brings editorial curation to Mastodon with ‘desks’ for news and discovery

Magazine app Flipboard is integrating Mastodon in its Android application, as the company broadens its commitment to the federated social web. Flipboard CEO Mike McCue will also demonstrate the app’s…

Flipboard expands Mastodon support to its Android application

Magazine app Flipboard is joining the Fediverse — the group of interconnected servers powering a range of open source, decentralized applications, including the newly popular Twitter alternative Mastodon. Starting today,…

Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub

Flipboard has announced that it’s bringing its notes feature to its iOS and Android apps, two months after it launched the feature on the web. The launch made Flipboard the…

Flipboard launches its notes feature on iOS and Android

Magazine reading app Flipboard is becoming the latest contender in the battle to relocate some of the online conversations taking place on Twitter onto its own platform instead. The company…

Magazine app Flipboard adds support for original content with new notes feature

Facebook is preparing to adjust its News Feed to de-emphasize political posts and current events, but news reader Flipboard is instead rolling out an update that puts users in control…

Flipboard rolls out newsfeed personalization tools to save you from doomscrolling

Augmented reality and non-fungible tokens, need I say more? Yes? Oh, well NFTs have certainly had their moment in 2021, but the question of what they do or what can…

Augmented reality NFT platform Anima gets backing from Coinbase

News aggregator Flipboard‘s local coverage is making what product lead Brian Gottesman described as a “quantum leap,” expanding from 60 topics (a.k.a. cities, towns and communities that you can follow)…

Flipboard expands its local coverage to more than 1,000 cities and towns

News app Flipboard is further expanding into video with Flipboard TV. The company’s curated video service first launched earlier this year as a Samsung exclusive, and is now making its…

Flipboard brings its ad-supported ‘Flipboard TV’ video service to all users

Effx, a startup that aims to give developers better insights into their microservice architectures, today announced that it has raised a $3.9 million funding round led by Kleiner Perkins and…

Effx raises $3.9M for its DevOps monitoring platform

Apple News is getting a significant upgrade. The news aggregation app, which ships preinstalled on Apple devices, is introducing several new features for readers and premium subscribers, including audio stories,…

Apple News adds new audio features, including a daily briefing, alongside expanded local coverage

Flipboard is giving news publishers and other curators on the platform a new way to highlight content through a format called Storyboards. Until now, Flipboard has largely focused on its Smart…

Flipboard rolls out Storyboards as a new way to highlight content

In January, personalized news app Flipboard announced it was expanding into local news. From the new “Local” tab in the app, Flipboard users can now keep up with their local…

Flipboard expands local news coverage to reach 50 cities across US and Canada

Earlier this year, personalized news aggregation app Flipboard expanded into local news. The feature brought local news, sports, real estate, weather, transportation news and more to 23 cities across the…

News-reading app Flipboard expands local coverage, including coronavirus updates, to 12 more US metros

Flipboard, the personalized news aggregation app used by 145 million users per month, is today launching a new feature aimed at bringing local news coverage to 23 cities across the…

Flipboard expands into local news

Social sharing site and news aggregator Flipboard has reset millions of user passwords after hackers gained access to its systems several times over a nine-month period. The company confirmed in…

Flipboard hacks prompt password resets for millions of users

With recent changes, Flipboard has been placing a big emphasis on allowing readers to go deep on their interests. Now it’s adding even more features around one particular interest, in the…

Flipboard launches a new tech section

Flipboard is changing the way it works with online publishers, thanks to two connected announcements. First, publishers no longer need to work directly with Flipboard in order to get their…

Flipboard opens up to more publishers by embracing the mobile web

Flipboard is following the launch of its “smart magazines” by boosting the role of videos. It’s not that videos were totally absent from the news app before this, but they…

Videos are getting a bigger role on Flipboard

Flipboard is releasing a big update today, which introduces “Smart Magazines” — a new way for people to find news stories and other content tied to their interests. CEO Mike…

Flipboard revamps its approach personalized news with new “Smart Magazines”

Flipboard, the mobile and web app that lets you aggregate, discover and read content from around the web in a magazine-style format, is unveiling its latest “native” product to court more…

Flipboard looks to boost native ad sales with swipe-friendly Storyboards

As Instagram continues to make moves to strengthen its platform with more features to keep users visiting it and staying longer, Instagram’s decision to kill off its feed API on June 1 has…

Flipboard confirms it will get cut off from Instagram after the feed API ends this month

Flipboard, the mobile and web app with some 82 million monthly active users who use the app to read content from around the web in a magazine-style layout, is today taking the wraps…

Flipboard Overhauls Publisher Pages With Verified Badges, ‘End Card’ Links And Ad Tech

Flipboard today is opening up some better targeting to its advertising partners in the form of the advertising based on the interest graphs it has built for its users. Here’s an…

Flipboard Launches A New Targeted Ads Product Based On Its Interest Graph