Purchases of applications each time seem like a normal procedure. Even despite the millionaires figures that are reached. It doesn't help that, after several days of similar news, it is now Flipboard who has gone shopping to purchase the Zite application for an amount that, supposedly, reaches 60 million dollars A most interesting and advantageous move for thecompany Most attractive content aggregator since, with this, it has managed to eliminate the competition with a stroke of the pen.
The story is curious to say the least. At least the part of Zite, who after achieving good success as a newsreader, also caught the attention of the news channel CNN Thus, this application offered the user the possibility of collecting the news of interest in a comfortable way and, which differentiated it from Flipboard , in a intelligent way Through the use that the person gave, it was able to capture their interests and offer news and related publications. Which put him at the top of the content aggregators a couple of years ago. So much so that it was acquired by the 24-hour news channel in 2011 to fully enter the mobile device market.
Now the tables are radically changed.According to close sources, Flipboard has acquired Zite for 60 million dollars Data that have not been officially confirmed. But what is interesting about the agreement is not only to end the competition of the social content aggregator, , but also because of the agreements it has reached with CNN In this way, not only does it endorse the news platform Zite, but it also gets several of the journalists and CNN writers believe in Flipboard their own magazines, thus increasing the value of said aggregator.
With all this Flipboard it is no longer just a useful tool to keep up with the news from the user's favorite web pages, your followed media or even the contents of the social networks that you use the most, but rather that has content from the prestigious channel CNNBoth its American version and CNN Internacional All this sprinkled with other niceties such as the reviewed magazinesand posts that can now be followed from this app. Of course, for those users who are fluent in English
To top it off, Flipboard has also updated its app for the Android platform A tool that now allows you to create a user account by entering the account details Google to speed up the process. There are also other interesting issues such as controlling the volume of information shown on the covers and pages before accessing a full article, adjust the application's Internet data consumption to save as much as possible and, finally, choose own images to be able to customize the pages of the magazines created by the user himself.News now available on Google Play totally free
In short, a movement that seems advantageous for Flipboard and that could mean improving its services if it adoptstechnology Zite All this taking into account that it already has the contents of CNN to add value to your application.
