Calling it a “living magazine” for the iPad, Yahoo has launched Livestand, an app that lets users personalize their news-reading experience. A cross between a social news reading app and a digital newsstand, the app provides a touch-based user experience and currently features more than 100 different titles from third-party publishers as well as content from Yahoo’s channels. READ MORE
For a news organization, CNN has remained surprisingly tight-lipped about the possible purchase of Zite, a news aggregation app. According to TechCrunch, the two companies have been in acquisition talks. Now that Flipboard has proven the survivability of these kinds of apps, expect similar deals to follow. READ MORE
Back in Web 1.0, content was king. With Web 2.0, traffic drivers run the road. According to a study released by Outbrain, news aggregator Drudge Report is one of the largest traffic drivers to online content, responsible for roughly 6.85 percent of traffic. READ MORE
White, Asian, and Indian males are relatively well-represented in Silicon Valley, but blacks, Latinos, and women are not. However, the entrepreneurs at NewMe, the first start-up accelerator specifically targeting black tech entrepreneurs and founders, hope to remedy this imbalance. READ MORE
News network CNN has made online and mobile content delivery a priority–it offers a CNN app for the iPhone, iPad, Android and Nokia phones, separate apps for international news, and is broadcasting live online 24 hours per day via TV Everywhere. The move has paid off, too: CNN claims the number one and number three news apps for iPhone and number one news app for the iPad, and has reached 10,000,000 total mobile app downloads across platforms, according to the company. READ MORE
Exactly one week ago, we reported that WordPress.com was leading Tumblr in blogs hosted by about 1.6 million, but that the gap was closing quickly. Tumblr wasted no time, officially passing WordPress.com yesterday to claim the blog hosting crown. READ MORE
