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Flipboard

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Flipboard is a digital social magazine that aggregates web links from your social circle, i.e. Twitter and Facebook, and displays the content in magazine form on an iPad.

Milestones

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  Flipboard added Filipe Fortes as Technical Lead. (10/31/11)
  Posted 4/24/12 at 4:05am
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  Flipboard added Charles Ying as Developer. (6/1/10)
  Posted 4/5/12 at 10:16pm
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  Flipboard added Craig Mod as Designer. (10/1/10)
  Posted 2/22/12 at 5:23pm
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  Flipboard added Todd Lappin as Product Manager. (7/1/11)
  Posted 2/11/12 at 10:03pm
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  Flipboard added Ellen Pao as Board Member.
  Posted 11/28/11 at 10:03pm
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  Flipboard added Jerry Murdock as Investor/ Advisor. (3/1/11)
  Posted 4/4/11 at 5:56am
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  Flipboard added Marcos Weskamp as Head of Design. (3/8/10)
  Posted 1/6/11 at 12:06pm
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  Flipboard added Arthur van Hoff as CTO.
  Posted 11/1/10 at 5:15pm
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  Flipboard added Evan Doll as Co-Founder.
  Posted 7/26/10 at 1:37pm
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  Flipboard added Gene Tsai as Engineer. (11/1/09)
  Posted 7/26/10 at 12:24am
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  Flipboard received $50M in Venture Round funding. (4/14/11)
  Posted 4/14/11 at 8:18pm via allthingsd.com
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  Flipboard received $10.5M in Series A funding. (7/20/10)
  Posted 7/20/10 at 7:39pm via allthingsd.com
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  Flipboard acquired Ellerdale. (7/1/10)
  Posted 8/13/10 at 10:07pm via gigaom.com
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  Flipboard — Flipboard Hits 3.5 Million Downloads, 550 Million Flips Per Month (9/12/11)
  Posted 9/12/11 at 6:00pm via techcrunch.com
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  Flipboard — Report: Flipboard Raising Funding at $200 Million Valuation (3/23/11)
  Posted 3/23/11 at 6:41pm via dmwmedia.com
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  Flipboard — Stealthy startup Flipboard raising funding from Kleiner Perkins (5/3/10)
  Posted 5/5/10 at 8:04pm via venturebeat.com

Videos

Screenshots

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Above: Flipboard
Uploaded: 1/8/11

Above: iPad Screenshots
Uploaded: 6/27/11

Sources

1. Flipboard Buys Ellerdale, Launches Social Digital Magazine (gigaom.com) [edit]
2. Meet Flipboard: Mike McCue Talks About Stealth "Social Magazine" Start-Up That Just Nabbed $10.5 Million in Funding (allthingsd.com) [edit]
3. Flipboard Raises $50 Million Round At A $200 Million Valuation (allthingsd.com) [edit]
Stealthy startup Flipboard raising funding from Kleiner Perkins (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
Report: Flipboard Raising Funding at $200 Million Valuation (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
Flipboard Hits 3.5 Million Downloads, 550 Million Flips Per Month (techcrunch.com) [edit]