Oct 19, 2011 longtime silicon valley entrepreneur mike mccue founded flipboard in early 2010, together with former apple iphone engineer evan doll. 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. Flipboard is a digital social magazine that aggregates web links from your social circle, i. Up until then, flipboard was a mobile app, only available on tablets and mobile phones. That email meant flipboard was on schedule for its next big launch. Flipboard, of course, is the news curation app with which apple.
Evan doll, is an exapple guy who worked on the original iphone team. Career story 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. Flipboard ceo mike mccue talks about stealth social magazine. In the video above, flipboard ceo mike mccue makes the case that in tablet publishing, the bulk of the revenue will come from advertising. There are good actors on the mobile web, said mike mccue, ceo and cofounder of flipboard. Mccue founded flipboard in 2010 with former apple iphone engineer evan doll.
Mike mccue born 1968 is an american technology entrepreneur, who founded or cofounded such companies as paper software, tellme networks and flipboard. Flipboard introduces an iphone app for killing time. Flipboard, the news curation platform, has aggregated stories from the new york times to vanity fair to the drum on mobile and its web client for. Feb 14, 2018 mccue acknowledged the precariousness of his relationship with apple. Tweet share post mike mccue, the cofounder and chief executive of palo altobased mobile reading app flipboard, has one simple ambition. A year after successfully launching its ipad application, the company on tuesday finally debuted an iphone version of flipboard, at the le web conference in paris, france. Usatoday reported that flipboard ceo mike mccue said that going into the iphone was our no. Download the allnew flipboard for iphone softpedia. Flipboard is an app and relies on apples hardware namely, the iphone and ipad for its readers. Flipboard ceo and cofounder mike mccue had some choice words for. Magazinestyle news service flipboard is notifying users of a. In january 2010, he cofounded, with evan doll, one of the early engineers on the iphone team at apple, flipboard, the social magazine app for apples ipad. Jun 22, 2012 flipboard app comes to android flipboard cofounders mike mccue and evan doll talk about the. Apples news app pulls in content from publishers and presents it richly.
Apple news has 70 million monthly readers, venturing close to flipboard s figures. Speaking at the code media event, mccue called out apple for its seemingly nonhuman approach towards news curation. The ipad is an amazing device that challenged us to rethink how people discover and share social news, said mike mccue, ceo of flipboard, in a statement. Flipboard is a social magazine application and company founded in 2010 by mike mccue and evan doll, based out of palo alto, california in the united states for apples ipad tablet computer. 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. Flipboard ceo calls apple news a product living in the. During a conversation with loic le meur at the annual leweb conference in paris today, flipboard s highly energetic founder and ceo mike mccue talked about the origins of his company and why there is no android version of flipboard yet. Nov 03, 2011 since launching, flipboard has more than 4 million users and is loaded on 10% of all ipads, mccue said. Apples ipad created a revolution for beautiful internet content. An interview with mike mccue, the genius behind flipboard. Cofounder and ceo mike mccue tells us that before launching. Dec 07, 2011 mike mccue, ceo of flipboard, said, the ipad is an amazing device that challenged us to rethink how people discover and share social updates and news.
Dec 07, 2011 flipboard, the ipad app that cleans up social networking and news feeds, has added an iphone app with a new design for a small screen. Flipboard previously ipad only is now available on iphone. Dec 07, 2011 flipboard launches new design for the iphone. It was apple, telling him that his companys new flipboard app for the iphone had been officially approved. The startup also introduced a version of the app for readers in china a surprising move, since many web companies avoid china because of censorship rules. Whats unusual in particular about this app, flipboard, is that the company behind it was cofounded by a former apple employee who worked on the iphone. 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. Flipboard s lead engineer, evan doll, is an exapple guy who worked on the original iphone team. Flipboard launches sleek iphone app with new cover. Theres a real bright road ahead for publishers bennett bennett.
Leweb 2011 mike mccue, ceo, flipboard and loic le meur. Apres une experience chez netscape, comme vicepresident en charge des technologies, il a lance sa propre entreprise. Mike mccue, ceo of flipboard, said friday that apples news app is something that we actually shipped five years ago. Mike says, there have been probably about publishers that have. Flipboard, the worlds first social magazine, is hiring.
In the early weeks of the coronavirus epidemic, the united states recorded an estimated 15,400 excess deaths, nearly two times as many as were publicly attributed to covid19 at the time, according to. Speaking at the code media conference today, flipboard ceo and cofounder mike mccue had some choice words for apple and its apple news platform. In 2018 ceo mike mccue criticized apple news for being limited and a. Since launching, flipboard has more than 4 million users and is loaded on 10% of all ipads, mccue said. Flipboard ceo comments on apple news app business insider. Founded by mike mccue, former ceo of tellme, and evan doll, former senior iphone engineer at apple, flipboard is on a quest to transform how people discover, browse and share content by. The startup also introduced a version of the app for readers in china a surprising move, since many web companies avoid. Flipboard app comes to android flipboard cofounders mike mccue and evan doll talk about the. Dec 07, 2011 flipboard s mike mccue talks about iphone app. If you want to create your own news reader magazine on your iphone, its worth the download.
Twitter and facebook, and displays the content in magazine form on an ipad. Nov 18, 2010 mike mccue is the co founder and ceo of flipboard. Were now on 10% of all ipads, no android version in the works yet written by frederic lardinois on dec 7, 2011. The washington post emma brown and andrew ba tran and beth reinhard and monica ulmanu. Its been our mission from day one, to build the worlds best personal magazine, where people can discover, collect and create the stories that inform, entertain and in. Dec 07, 2011 flipboard ceo mike mccue said an iphone flipboard app was the number one request from ipad users. Cofounded by longtime silicon valley entrepreneur mike mccue and former apple iphone engineer evan doll in january, flipboard decloaked itself tonight.
Flipboard, another apple darling, expands to android the. The flipboard app is free, and the palo alto, calif. Flipboard says hackers breached databases, may have stolen user. For eight years, flipboard cofounder and ceo mike mccue has been building a news curation app that organizes articles into a format more.
Together they set out to build a global service that would let people. Flipboard news service ceo mike mccue threw a bit of shade at its biggest rival, apple news, at the code media conference this week. Nov 25, 2012 mike mccue and evan dolls flipboard set out to solve the problem of presenting aggregated content from the web in a fashionable way and make reading something exciting, rather than navigating a. Flipboard ceo mike mccue disses apple news at code media. Dec 06, 2011 tweet share post mike mccue, the cofounder and chief executive of palo altobased mobile reading app flipboard, has one simple ambition. Flipboard, which offers a free app that reformats web content into magazinelike pages, said on friday that its. The application is designed to collect the content of social networks and other websites and present them in magazine format on the ipad. The flipboard iphone app is so popular it doesnt work.
Oct 10, 2017 a sleeping giant for news distribution has awoken. Flipboard s iphone app is launching today with familiar flipboard features but its redesigned from scratch for the iphone form factor. Flipboard ceo mike mccue said an iphone flipboard app was the number one request from ipad users. Mike mccue, founder and ceo of flipboard, credited apple on friday with creating a revolution with its ipad tablet and said the impact of that revolution is still being understood more than two. Flipboard ceo mike mccue talks about stealth social. Since then, weve seen a ton of companies large and small trying to get into the newscuration space, such as facebook. Flipboard is a social magazine for ipad filled with all the things your friends are sharing by applying the timeless principles of print to social media. Were finding the best of the mobile web and giving that to people.
Feb 14, 2018 apple news has 70 million monthly readers, venturing close to flipboards figures. Flipboard, the ipad app that cleans up social networking and news feeds, has added an iphone app with a new design for a small screen. Founded by mike mccue, former ceo of tellme, and evan doll, former senior iphone engineer at apple, flipboard is on a quest to transform. Real talk business reboot webinar with marketing guru seth godin on how to build a brand people love. Say hello to an innovative new social magazine concept called flipboard, which is attempting to make the social networking universe more accessible, consumable and, perhaps most importantly, visually arresting via a rich app on the apple ipad. During a conversation with loic le meur at the annual leweb conference in paris today, flipboards highly energetic founder and ceo mike mccue talked about the origins of his company and why there is no android version of flipboard yet. Dec 12, 2010 flipboard, the worlds first social magazine, is hiring. Longtime silicon valley entrepreneur mike mccue founded flipboard in early 2010, together with former apple iphone engineer evan doll. Mccue acknowledged the precariousness of his relationship with apple. The day after flipboard launched its latest new feature last week, a blog geared toward helping educators. Flipboard launches its longexpected app for the apple iphone that will let users of the popular social reader use it on the mobile device.
Kara swisher of all things digital was extremely impressed with mike and described him to me in a tweet as having hypnotic eyes. Flipboard app released for android phones, waiting on android. The ipad is an amazing device that challenged us to rethink how people discover and share social news, flipboard ceo mike mccue said in a statement. Flipboard app released for android phones, waiting on. Flipboard introduces an iphone app for killing time standing.
The popular news reading app flipboard for ipad is now available on the iphone and ipod touch. The result is a huge influx of incoming messages and links people must sort through across multiple web sites just to stay up to date, said mike mccue, flipboards ceo. Leweb 2011 mike mccue, ceo, flipboard launched flipboard for iphone, which addresses the way people flip through information vertically, as opposed to horizontally on the ipad. If you flip to the side, you feel like you could lose your grip, mccue says. Facebooks internal android campaign illustrates iphones. Inside a content revolution five years in the making. Inside a content revolution five years in the making bgr. Not only is mike clearly a creative genius but he manages to impress everyone who meets him. Flipboard launches worlds first social magazine flipboard.
Android phones are about to get one of the best apps made for the iphone and ipad. Mike mccue, ceo of flipboard, said, the ipad is an amazing device that challenged us to rethink how people discover and share social updates and news. I love design, startups, exploration, photo journalism and classic wooden boats. Keeping this in mind, its understandable if the ceo and cofounder of flipboard, mike mccue, doesnt have nice things to say about apple news. In a conference room at the times last week, mike mccue, the chief executive of flipboard, got an email on his iphone. Flipboard founder claims apple news is a product living. Flipboards mike mccue talks about iphone app flipboard launches its longexpected app for the apple iphone that will let users of the popular social reader use it on the mobile device. We believe the timeless principles of print can make social media less noisy, more visually compelling and ultimately more mainstream. Cofounder and ceo mike mccue tells us that before launching flipboard, he made his engineers hook up double the amount of servers they thought would be necessary. Flipboard s content filtering, topic engine and recommendations system were integrated from this acquisition. Dec 07, 2011 leweb 2011 mike mccue, ceo, flipboard launched flipboard for iphone, which addresses the way people flip through information vertically, as opposed to horizontally on the ipad. Mar, 2011 flipboard to launch for iphone flipboard, the social magazine for the ipad, will launch on the iphone later this year, the companys cofounder has said. Mike mccue founded flipboard in early 2010, with former apple iphone engineer evan doll.
Flipboard ceo calls apple news a product living in the past. Mike mccue told the south by southwest sxsw technology conference in austin, texas, that the app would require a complete redesign for the iphone s smaller screen but that his. Flipboards mike mccue talks mobile media at disrupt ny. Flipboard founder claims apple news is a product living in. The result is a huge influx of incoming messages and links people must sort through across multiple web sites just to stay up to date, said mike mccue, flipboard s ceo.
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