![]() ![]() And at the back there’s a gif of the day. It also makes use of multimedia and there’s a daily track at the back which can play in the background while you continue reading. It’s a quick read including top stories from news, business, sports and culture and one in-depth feature. You can flip through the highly visual magazine of 12 pages rounding up the day’s news. It’s compiled and ready to open at 7am on your device. Inside the Daily Edition updated each morning at 7am Photograph: iPad Screengrabįlipboard 3.0’s new feature, the Daily Edition, which appears on your personalised dashboard in the app, aims to cater for our changing reading habits. There are now 10m curated magazines available on the platform, compiled together by individual users and publishers. The start-up is growing fast, with a team of 160 that includes developers and curators, and has more than 8,000 publishers on board, partnering with organisations such as the Guardian, New York Times and CNN and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Its main competitors include Newsstand by Google and Facebook’s Paper, yet Flipboard was one of the first apps on Apple’s iPad tablet and blended together algorithmic and human curation to create a highly visual personal magazine, and partnered with social media companies so that the content was shareable. The 47-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur founded Flipboard in 2010 with former iPhone engineer Evan Doll. “We really believe in the power of great journalism to move the world forward,” McCue explains, “and so what we wanted to do with flipboard is create a platform for really high quality content to thrive.” ![]() Mike McCue, chief executive and co-founder of Flipboard
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