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Eric Feng, a mainstay in digital media properties such as Hulu, Airtime and Erly, announced on Friday that he will join the executive team of Flipboard, the social magazine app made popular on smartphones and tablets. Feng will join the startup as CTO and second in command to CEO Mike McCue, and...

Eric Feng, former Kleiner Perkins partner and Hulu CTO, is joining social magazine app Flipboard’s executive team as CTO, running engineering and strategy. Most recently, Feng was at Airtime, after the company acquired his former startup Erly , the Kleiner Perkins-backed app aimed at letting people...

Rather than trust your friends and favorite Pages to post interesting stuff, Facebook is taking news discovery into its own hands with “Articles Related To…”. This special feed story shows you popular links that lead to content mentioning Pages you Like. It could be the next step in Facebook’s...

Pulse is one of the better-known RSS readers out there, with apps for iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire as well as browser integration. Now, a new update to Pulse (for iOS and Android) lets users add social profiles from sites like YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, and Instagram in addition to the standard...

Flipboard users on Android have a reason to celebrate, now that the Daydream feature on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean is capable of showing covers from the popular social magazine. The latest Flipboard update on Android brings Flipboard Daydream, a feature that gives users running Android 4.2 the power to...

Daydream is certainly one of the more minor features that Google added in Android 4.2 — the glorified screensavers just haven't been terribly helpful — but with an update to Flipboard today it looks like there may be a good reason to enable Daydream. The newest version of Flipboard adds...

Flipboard readers on Android have a little more reason to celebrate beyond just the recent addition of tablet support . A quick update this weekend lets the curated news reader hook into Android 4.2's Daydream mode: news covers can become part of a screensaver that automatically updates with the...

Flipboard has received an update for Android 4.2 users that prevents accidental flipping and also repairs some minor bugs that afflicted users of the magazine style news reader; more importantly, the app now supports Android 4.2's Daydream and creates a screensaver made of Flipboard covers from...

NewsWhip , a service that surfaces the latest news based on social signals from Facebook and Twitter, has released an iPhone and iPad app that puts it up against the likes of Flipboard and other social news readers. But the twist is that this looks at all socially shared news, not just news in your...

China’s government has issued strict new rules for Internet regulation, but that hasn’t deterred Silicon Valley startup Flipboard from attempting to win over the world’s biggest Internet market. On Friday, China introduced new rules that required Internet users to register their real names for...