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paidContent Advertising Video: Flipboard’s McCue Wants To Paginate The Web

Sep 28, 2011 6:00 AM

One of iPad’s flagship apps wants to help publishers sell ads by flipping back to familiar old print rules. “One of the big problems with the web is that it scrolls,” Flipboard CEO Mike McCue told our recent paidContent Advertising conference. » Watch the video of McCue’s Q&A with paidContent UK…

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Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Online News, Social Media, News Sharing, Events, ContentNext Events, paidContent Advertising, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, flipboard, mike mccue, robert andrews

Facebook Buys Sharing Service FriendFeed For Reported $50 Million

Aug 10, 2009 3:25 PM

Updated: Facebook has purchased social sharing service FriendFeed—in a deal that should give it both additional technology and engineers to beef up its product. Financial terms of the deal were not released, although the WSJ puts the price at nearly $50 million, including $15 million in cash, with the remainder…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Community, Nanopublishing, News Sharing, Companies, Facebook

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