Also known as flipboard.com
Flipboard is a news aggregator and social network aggregation company based in Palo Alto, California, with offices in New York, Vancouver, and Beijing. Its software, also known as Flipboard, was first released in July 2010. It aggregates content from social media, news feeds, photo sharing sites, and other websites, presents it in magazine format, and allows users to "flip" through the articles, images, and videos being shared. Readers can also save stories into Flipboard magazines. As of March 2016 the company claims there have been 28 million magazines created by users on Flipboard. The serv
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- Software.title
- Software.name
- Flipboard Inc.
- Software.logo
- 220px|class=skin-invert
- Software.developer
- Mike McCue and Evan Doll
- Software.ver layout
- stacked
- Software.operating system
- iOS, Android, Tizen, watchOS, Fitbit OS, Windows, Windows Phone
- Software.size
- 19.4 MB (Android) 124 MB (iOS)
- Software.genre
- Social network aggregation
- Software.license
- Proprietary
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- Official website
- flipboard.com
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- inception
- 2010-07-21
- social media followers
- 8475
- terms of service URL
- about.flipboard.com/terms
- privacy policy URL
- about.flipboard.com/privacy
- Commons category
- Mastodon instance URL
- flipboard.social
- PeerTube instance URL
- flipboard.video
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Flipboard is a news aggregator and social network aggregation company based in Palo Alto, California, with offices in New York, Vancouver, and Beijing. Its software, also known as Flipboard, was first released in July 2010. It aggregates content from social media, news feeds, photo sharing sites, and other websites, presents it in magazine format, and allows users to "flip" through the articles, images, and videos being shared. Readers can also save stories into Flipboard magazines. As of March 2016 the company claims there have been 28 million magazines created by users on Flipboard. The service can be accessed via web browser, or by a Flipboard application for Microsoft Windows and macOS, and via mobile apps for iOS and Android. The client software is available at no charge and is localized in 21 languages.
==History== The original launch of Flipboard in 2010 was exclusively for iPad. It launched the iPhone and iPod Touch versions seventeen months later in December 2011.