Flipboard Adds 3 Million Users Since Launch Of Personalized Magazines, Over 500,000 Magazines Created To Date

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Mobile magazine Flipboard revealed today that over half a million personalized magazines have been created on its platform since the launch of the new feature just two weeks prior. During this time, the company also added 3 million new users to its service, bringing its total user base to now 53 million.

In late March, the startup introduced a way for its users to something else besides search, discover, read and share to social networks – it essentially turned its entire audience into magazine editors. With a “flip it” option now accompanying every story from Flipboard’s collection of content from publishers around the world, anyone is able to now create personalized, topical magazines which other readers can subscribe to directly in the iOS or Android application...

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Flipboard Update Lets You Create Your Own Magazines

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Flipboard takes the news you want to read and organizes it into a wonderfully designed magazine format. And now, with an update to its iOS apps, it lets you create your own magazines for specific themes, topics, events, and so on.

Want to create a magazine about, say, New York City public transit? It's fairly simple. You just hit the plus button on anything you see in Flipboard—whether it's a story about cab drivers, a photo of abandoned train stations, or a relevant video or sound clip—then select "create magazine" and add a title and description. The process a similar to adding items to a Pinterest board, but the auto-generated design of your Flipboard magazine is so much prettier. Once you're done, anyone can search for and subscribe to your digital 'zine, and you can look for ones that interest you, too.

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Flipboard Is Now On All Android Tablets

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Whoa, fire up your Fire, zoom off with your Xoom, Xyboard your... something something. Flipboard is finally available for every single Android tablet.

Of course, the reader app has been around for Android smartphones since the summer. But the latest release is a version of Flipboard that's optimized for a number of different screen sizes and aspect ratios. That means you can see more sections as tiles and story excerpts are larger. So whichever Android flavor you're using, you'll have a much better experience. And that's exactly the point of reading on a tablet anyway.

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Google Just Announced A Partnership Between Google+ And Flipboard

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Soon you'll be able to access your Google+ stream from Flipboard.

Bradley Horowitz, the VP who oversees product management for Google+, announced at Le Web in London that Google has partnered with Flipboard to add Google+ streams to the popular news reader app.

Google is opening up its Google+ API to give Flipboard users access to photos, videos, updates and more from the social network, all within the Flipboard app. So you'll be able to read and comment on Google+ posts without having to actually visit the website.

Horowitz didn't reveal an exact date for when users can expect to access their Google+ feed from within Flipboard's app, but it should come in the immediate future.

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Flipboard comes to iPhone with new design & features

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The oh-so-popular Flipboard news and social media app for iPad is now available for iPhone.

Since Flipboard launched in 2010, it has become one of the most popular apps for the iPad, making it easy for users to find new Web content in an aesthetically pleasing layout. And as of today, iPhone users can get in on the content sharing goodness with the newly designed Flipboard app made specifically for the smaller screen.

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Flipboard's Biggest Competition is Coming Soon From Google and Yahoo

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If Flipboard thought it had enough competition in the social news-reading tablet app space, it's got a thing or two coming. Well, one from Google and one from Yahoo, reportedly. The two Web giants are working on their own such applications, the first of which may drop next week.

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