Rocket labs launch complex1 is not easy to get tobut the views are worth any lost sleep. I love design, startups, exploration, photo journalism and classic wooden boats. 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. 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. The idea for flipboard was to take web content and repackage it to look and feel like a personalized magazine.
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. 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. Their paths crossed when mccue founded his first company, paper software, which made learning about computers as easy as using a piece of paper. Curating for family, friends and to share ideas on flipboard. Official facebook, flipboard flopping over to windows. 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. 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. For the last 36 hours we have been managing an explosive rush of new users which has clearly been beyond our wildest expectations.
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 when flipboard launched on the ipad three years ago, it was the worlds first tabletonly personal magazine. Mike mccue, flipboard ceo read flipboards blog post here. Flipboard now has 70m monthly active users, says ceo mike mccue. 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.
Cofounded by longtime silicon valley entrepreneur mike mccue and former apple iphone engineer evan doll in january, flipboard decloaked itself tonight. Theres also a small team in beijing, mccue says, thats working on doing a version of flipboard for china. Flipboard now lets you set superspecific news topics cnet. Flipboards mike mccue on the last startup hell ever do. Mike mccue is an american entrepreneur, who has a great career graph. Flipboard moves beyond mobile to bring its personalized. Flipboard founder claims apple news is a product living. The company is moving onto the web at a time when most media. 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.
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. 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. I wondered whether this version might dump the apps distinctive. Flipboard launches ipad app to adulation, rush of users pcworld. 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. Flipboard ceo mike mccue acknowledged the challenges of trying to. Mike mccue, the ceo of flipboard, has been reinventing the way we get our news since the earliest days of the web. Jul 08, 2014 how serial entrepreneur mike mccue successfully positioned flipboard at the forefront of a new era of digital media. Evernote ceo phil libin and flipboard ceo mike mccue.
Jun 26, 20 flipboard fits naturally into windows 8. Flipboard founding team member and head of marketing, on the board of icfj, fan of family adventure travel, the warriors and big ideas. He has worked with companies like netscape and microsoft. Working together we aspire to craft the worlds most beautiful windows app. Flipboard ceo mike mccue just burned apple jun, 2015, 11. 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. By bringing the zite team and technology to flipboard, we can deliver an even more personalized experience to every flipboard reader. 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. He was the one who discovered me and referred me to marc andreessen at netscape, says mccue. Flipboards top tips for bridging the widening gap between the media and the platform.
Flipboard and ultravisual have a shared vision that content, beautifully presented and organized around interests, can connect people in meaningful and moving ways. 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. Several years ago, flipboard ceo mike mccue was searching for the companys soul. 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.
Users could pick their favorite online sources, and then wed create a. Currently, everyone who downloads flipboard can flip through all the public content we link to. 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. On october 22, 2014, flipboard for windows 8 was rolled out to windows phone devices starting with the nokia lumia 2520. Flipboard ceo mike mccue talks about stealth social magazine. Flipboard launches new paid video service on samsung galaxy s20. Flipboard s lead engineer, evan doll, is an exapple guy who worked on the original iphone team.
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, flipboard ceo mike mccue said in a statement. An interview with mike mccue, the genius behind flipboard. 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. Mobileonly flipboard lands on desktops for the first time. In an interview at recodes code media conference on tuesday, he said that apples alternative to his own. Scientists are about to spend a year trapped in arctic ice. How did mike mccue come up with the idea for flipboard, the ipad reader thats seeing more than 10 million flips a day. This is a 75 percent increase from february, when it had. 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. Brian achgetty the ceo of flipboard, mike mccue, is not the biggest fan of apple news.
Flipboard comes to the web, and its beautiful the verge. Thank you everyone for the incredible response to flipboard. Inside a content revolution five years in the making bgr. Flipboard ceo mike mccue believes that apple news is a. Long a fan of magazines, the ceo of flipboard and his cofounder, evan doll, started designing the. Flipboard founder claims apple news is a product living in the past. 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 is now making it easier for any publisher to join the platform that has 100 million users. Mccue is quick to dispel the notion that flipboard itself is the next phase of the web. There are good actors on the mobile web, said mike mccue, ceo and cofounder of flipboard. Beyond that, the platform is localized in over 20 languages. For media publishing platform flipboard, the occupant of this office space, spreading ideas and stories is part of the company mission. Instead, the president and his top advisers have fixated almost exclusively on plans to reopen the u. Feb 08, 2017 flipboard now lets you set superspecific news topics.
Mike mccues flipboard news for our time outlook business. Not only is mike clearly a creative genius but he manages to impress everyone who meets him. Oct 10, 2017 flipboard is now making it easier for any publisher to join the platform that has 100 million users. How serial entrepreneur mike mccue successfully positioned flipboard at the. Mike mccue is an american technology entrepreneur, who founded or cofounded such companies as paper software, tellme networks and flipboard. National geographic by sarah gibbens and esther horvath. But there is no evidence yet the white house will pursue such a strategy. Founder stories how mike mccue came up with flipboard. Flipboard ceo mike mccue is off the twitter board mike mccue flipboard ceo mike mccue has left twitters board of directors. Behind the scenes at earths most beautiful rocket launch site. From day one, weve believed that great stories move the world forward and that truth matters. He just tweeted his thanks to twitter ceo dick costolo and cofounders. Jun 26, 20 official facebook, flipboard flopping over to windows. Flipboard s top tips for bridging the widening gap between the media and the platform.
We are just getting warmed up, says flipboard ceo mccue. 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. Mike says, there have been probably about publishers that have. Official facebook, flipboard flopping over to windows techradar. Danny rimer of index ventures and flipboard founder mike mccue go back a long way. Flipboard launches new paid video service on samsung. 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. As twitter goes to war with its developers, flipboard ceo. Mccue says that flipboard today is adding at least 200,000 new users per day. Mike mccue, ceo of the news aggregation app, also believes in life beyond algorithms.
Antoine leblond also took the stage during the keynote to show off windows 8. 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. Flipboards competitors, revenue, number of employees. Flipboard unveiled its biggest update in two years. Flipboard partners with cnn, acquires zite flipboard. A vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal lines. 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 launches ipad app to adulation, rush of users. Mike mccue born 1968 is an american technology entrepreneur, who founded or cofounded such companies as paper software, tellme networks and flipboard. 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. Windows 8 tablet momentum builds with facebook and flipboard. Mobileonly flipboard lands on desktops for the first time image. In many ways, flipboard ceo mike mccue told me, this is a more evolved version of flipboard than on any other platform.
Mike mccue, the ceo of flipboard said we aspire to not only create the best windows 8 flipboard possible, but the best version of. After more than five years, flipboard believes it has found. 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. Rather, it is a new kind of browser that harnesses the technologies and trends that mccue sees as most. Few entrepreneurs struck it rich in the ipad gold rush like mike mccue. 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. Jul 20, 2010 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.
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