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Why your Spotify or Netflix for print content is probably doomed

on January 19, 2015

Services like Magzter and NextIssue promise a digital version of the old-fashioned newsstand, where people can flip through the virtual pages of their favorite magazines — but that’s not the way most people consume content any more

Flipboard launches version 3.0: Smarter recommendations plus a curated daily newsmagazine

on October 29, 2014

Flipboard has launched a major redesign of its social-magazine app, adding smarter curation tools using technology from Zite, which it acquired in March, as well as a daily newspaper-style magazine that will be curated by the company’s editorial staff

It was great having you, magazines. Let’s just say goodbye now

on October 12, 2014

When print magazines are gone, how much will we miss them?

The road to smarter packaging: Austrian firm prints basic display directly onto paper

on August 25, 2014

The technique uses normal screen-printing technology and doesn’t require a clean room, so it could pave the way for the low-cost inclusion of basic displays on packaging and in magazines.

Medium adds tech heavyweight Steven Levy as it builds its digital magazine/platform

on June 25, 2014

Wired staffer and tech-journalism veteran Steven Levy announced on Wednesday that he is leaving the magazine to join Medium, the platform/magazine founded by former Twitter CEO Evan Williams, and will be creating a technology hub or vertical for the site

Time Inc. is independent, but saddled with debt and digitally adrift — 3 things it needs to do

on June 9, 2014

Time Warner has spun off its magazine-publishing arm as a separate company, but the legendary firm faces the same challenge as the New York Times and other traditional media players: How to get from a print-centric world to a digital one

Medium admits pay-per-click isn’t the best way to pay writers, still wrestling with being a platform vs. being a publisher

on June 2, 2014

Medium says it is continuing to experiment with how best to compensate writers, but the recent departure of the contributing editor behind one of its collections shows there is still a tension between Medium the magazine and Medium the open platform

Watch out, business publishers — Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith says he is coming for you

on March 19, 2014

In a manifesto for where he wants to take Bloomberg Media, new CEO Justin Smith talked about expanding the financial news giant’s reach on the web — including a rethinking of its Businessweek strategy — as well as moving aggressively into mobile and video

Flipboard is acquiring Zite from CNN, forming broad advertising and content partnership with news and media giant

on March 5, 2014

Flipboard, a leading mobile news-reading and content-sharing app, is acquiring one of its main competitors — an app called Zite — from CNN for a reported $60 million and forming an advertising and content partnership with CNN for all of the media giant’s content

The term “digital magazines” may sound kind of dumb, but First Look Media’s approach is not

on February 10, 2014

First Look Media, the new venture from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, has launched The Intercept from Glenn Greenwald — the first of what it calls a family of “digital magazines.” But the company’s strategy is much smarter than that term makes it sound

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