Flipboard launches ipad app to adulation, rush of users pcworld. Founder stories how mike mccue came up with flipboard. Flipboard acquires technicolorbacked companys team, effective immediately september 8th, 2014 palo alto, ca today flipboard announced it has acquired the team at ultravisual, a technicolorbacked company. We are just getting warmed up, says flipboard ceo mccue.
I wondered whether this version might dump the apps distinctive. Flipboard was founded in 2010, in palo alto california, by mike mccue, former ceo of tellme, and evan doll, former senior iphone engineer at apple. He was the one who discovered me and referred me to marc andreessen at netscape, says mccue. Flipboard ceo mike mccue believes that apple news is a. Flipboard is now making it easier for any publisher to join the platform that has 100 million users. National geographic by sarah gibbens and esther horvath. Mike mccue, the ceo of flipboard, has been reinventing the way we get our news since the earliest days of the web. He just tweeted his thanks to twitter ceo dick costolo and cofounders. Flipboard partners with cnn, acquires zite flipboard. There are good actors on the mobile web, said mike mccue, ceo and cofounder of flipboard. Flipboards mike mccue on the last startup hell ever do. In many ways, flipboard ceo mike mccue told me, this is a more evolved version of flipboard than on any other platform. Mike mccue is an american technology entrepreneur, who founded or cofounded such companies as paper software, tellme networks and flipboard.
Flipboard was founded as one place to find the stories for your day, bringing together your favorite news sources with social content, to give a deep view into everything from political issues to technology trends to travel inspiration. An interview with mike mccue, the genius behind flipboard. Working together we aspire to craft the worlds most beautiful windows app, flipboard ceo mike mccue said in a statement. Sep 24, 20 the investment will be used to finance greater international expansion, finalise a windows 8 app, and allow the company to hire more sales staff, mike mccue, flipboard s chief executive and co. Flipboard now has 70m monthly active users, says ceo mike mccue. Jun 26, 20 we aspire to not just create the best windows applications possible, but the best version of flipboard possible, flipboard ceo mike mccue said in a statement. Flipboard launches new paid video service on samsung galaxy s20. Theres also a small team in beijing, mccue says, thats working on doing a version of flipboard for china. Flipboard ceo mike mccue is off the twitter board mike mccue flipboard ceo mike mccue has left twitters board of directors. Mobileonly flipboard lands on desktops for the first time image. Mccue says that flipboard today is adding at least 200,000 new users per day. Flipboard s top tips for bridging the widening gap between the media and the platform.
Flipboard now lets you set superspecific news topics cnet. Mike mccue born 1968 is an american technology entrepreneur, who founded or cofounded such companies as paper software, tellme networks and flipboard. Currently, everyone who downloads flipboard can flip through all the public content we link to. Oct 10, 2017 flipboard is now making it easier for any publisher to join the platform that has 100 million users. Mike mccue, flipboard ceo read flipboards blog post here. Rocket labs launch complex1 is not easy to get tobut the views are worth any lost sleep. Mobileonly flipboard lands on desktops for the first time. Flipboard when flipboard launched on the ipad three years ago, it was the worlds first tabletonly personal magazine. Mccue is quick to dispel the notion that flipboard itself is the next phase of the web. Behind the scenes at earths most beautiful rocket launch site.
Curating for family, friends and to share ideas on flipboard. Microsoft has confirmed that official windows 8 apps for facebook and flipboard are in the works, but so far theres been no information on their features or their design. May 26, 2015 reports about the deal, which would be twitters largest acquisition, also fueled speculation that mike mccue, flipboards cofounder and a former twitter board member, could become the. Inside a content revolution five years in the making bgr. Jul 14, 2015 flipboards ceo mike mccue today revealed that his digital magazine platform now counts 70 million monthly active users as of june 2015. Feb 10, 2015 this is a very retro thing were doing, flipboard ceo mike mccue tells me, when i stop by the companys offices in palo alto. Flipboard ceo mike mccue talks about stealth social magazine. I love design, startups, exploration, photo journalism and classic wooden boats. This is a 75 percent increase from february, when it had. Not only is mike clearly a creative genius but he manages to impress everyone who meets him. Their paths crossed when mccue founded his first company, paper software, which made learning about computers as easy as using a piece of paper. Feb 08, 2017 flipboard now lets you set superspecific news topics. Instead, the president and his top advisers have fixated almost exclusively on plans to reopen the u.
Beyond that, the platform is localized in over 20 languages. On october 22, 2014, flipboard for windows 8 was rolled out to windows phone devices starting with the nokia lumia 2520. Thank you everyone for the incredible response to flipboard. Antoine leblond also took the stage during the keynote to show off windows 8. Jul 21, 2010 flipboard comes from a palo altobased startup of the same name that was formed by mike mccue, former ceo of tellme, and evan doll, and a former senior iphone engineer at apple. Cofounded by longtime silicon valley entrepreneur mike mccue and former apple iphone engineer evan doll in january, flipboard decloaked itself tonight. Flipboard founder claims apple news is a product living. Mike mccue, ceo of flipboard, an app that allows users to view all of their social networking feeds in one place, discusses the future of news consumption at the washington ideas forum hosted by. Mike mccue, the ceo of flipboard said we aspire to not only create the best windows 8 flipboard possible, but the best version of flipboard possible, channeled the microsoft head. Flipboard comes from a palo altobased startup of the same name that was formed by mike mccue, former ceo of tellme, and evan doll, and a.
Flipboard comes to the web, and its beautiful the verge. Several years ago, flipboard ceo mike mccue was searching for the companys soul. Flipboard founding team member and head of marketing, on the board of icfj, fan of family adventure travel, the warriors and big ideas. How serial entrepreneur mike mccue successfully positioned flipboard at the. Danny rimer of index ventures and flipboard founder mike mccue go back a long way. Nov 18, 2010 if you are not familiar with flipboard, chances are you do not own an ipad, but even so, it is worth reading about the app here. Flipboard ceo mike mccue just burned apple jun, 2015, 11. For media publishing platform flipboard, the occupant of this office space, spreading ideas and stories is part of the company mission. In an interview at recodes code media conference on tuesday, he said that apples alternative to his own. The service still hews closely to the vision that emerged after mccue and her husband first sat down with former apple engineer evan doll also a flipboard cofounder and over coffee on.
Brian achgetty the ceo of flipboard, mike mccue, is not the biggest fan of apple news. Flipboards competitors, revenue, number of employees, funding and acquisitions flipboards website flipboard is a magazineformat mobile application that allows users to view and share content of various publishers. The windows 8 version of the flipboard app was also demonstrated during the microsoft 20 build conference and on the flipboard blog with a video, although no release date was given. A vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal lines. Flipboard launches new paid video service on samsung. Flipboard founder claims apple news is a product living in the past.
He and cofounder evan doll had been playing with the idea of a magazine app for the age of the ipad, but they. Working together we aspire to craft the worlds most beautiful windows app. In fact, he worked as the vice president of technology at netscape but left the company to cofound his first startup, tellme networks, with angus davis, in february 1999. As twitter goes to war with its developers, flipboard ceo. Flipboard and ultravisual have a shared vision that content, beautifully presented and organized around interests, can connect people in meaningful and moving ways. Flipboard s lead engineer, evan doll, is an exapple guy who worked on the original iphone team. Jun 11, 20 its easy to tell what apple thinks of ios 7, with everyone from tim cook on down praising it as the biggest thing since the iphone to get a reality check, we chatted just after the keynote finished with two prominent apple developers.
By bringing the zite team and technology to flipboard, we can deliver an even more personalized experience to every flipboard reader. From day one, weve believed that great stories move the world forward and that truth matters. When we were originally going to build flipboard for the web, we realized it was a super hard thing to do, cofounder mike mccue told me. Few entrepreneurs struck it rich in the ipad gold rush like mike mccue. Jul 08, 2014 how serial entrepreneur mike mccue successfully positioned flipboard at the forefront of a new era of digital media. Flipboard now lets you set superspecific news topics.
Users could pick their favorite online sources, and then wed create a. He has worked with companies like netscape and microsoft. Mike mccue, ceo of the news aggregation app, also believes in life beyond algorithms. Mike says, there have been probably about publishers that have. Jun 26, 20 flipboard fits naturally into windows 8. How serial entrepreneur mike mccue successfully positioned flipboard at the forefront of a new era of digital media. The idea for flipboard was to take web content and repackage it to look and feel like a personalized magazine.
Flipboards top tips for bridging the widening gap between the media and the platform. Official facebook, flipboard flopping over to windows techradar. After more than five years, flipboard believes it has found. Mike mccues flipboard news for our time outlook business. But there is no evidence yet the white house will pursue such a strategy. Mike mccue is an american entrepreneur, who has a great career graph. Official facebook, flipboard flopping over to windows. Mike mccue, the ceo of flipboard said we aspire to not only create the best windows 8 flipboard possible, but the best version of. Evernote ceo phil libin and flipboard ceo mike mccue. May 12, 2011 in the video above, flipboard ceo mike mccue makes the case that in tablet publishing, the bulk of the revenue will come from advertising. The personalized magazine, already available for ipad, iphone, android and even blackberry 10, has debuted on the windows store in a version reengineered for microsofts touchfriendly metro interface. Ceo mike mccue said in a recent interview with cnet that the windows 8 version of flipboard was a special edition built from the ground up. Flipboard ceo mike mccue thinks his platform flipboard flipboard, the news curation platform, has aggregated stories from the new york times to vanity fair to.
The company is moving onto the web at a time when most media. Flipboard launches ipad app to adulation, rush of users. Rather, it is a new kind of browser that harnesses the technologies and trends that mccue sees as most. How did mike mccue come up with the idea for flipboard, the ipad reader thats seeing more than 10 million flips a day. Jun 26, 20 official facebook, flipboard flopping over to windows. Flipboard ceo mike mccue shot down rumors monday that his company was for sale, but added he would never say never to an acquisition, and also said that he. By partnering with cnn we can provide the worldclass news our audience expects and expand our global coverage in a significant way, said mike mccue, ceo of flipboard. Windows 8 tablet momentum builds with facebook and flipboard.
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