Flipboard adds Reuters to app

Flipboard has included yet another big name publication to its news reader app. Reuters can be viewed on any of the news channels of Flipboard and content has been localized for Canada, France, Brazil, Italy, Japan, Germany, Spain, UK, Russia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The other big publications included in Flipboard’s stream are TIME, People magazine, and CBS Sports.

Flipboard launches Windows 8.1 app

Flipboard has officially unveiled the Windows 8.1 app and provides similar experience to iOS and Android versions with a few added features. The news reader includes Live Tile support; Windows 8 swipe up gesture to access an app bar; and Windows 8.1 snap mode to run Flipboard alongside other apps.

The new app will be available on Windows Store starting today and can be used on Windows RT tablets. Flipboard said a Windows Phone app version will arrive soon.

Source: The Verge

Instagram and Flipboard coming to Windows Phone 8 soon

Popular services are slowly making their way into the Microsoft mobile ecosystem with the impending arrival Instagram and Flipboard to the Windows Phone 8 platform. Announced at Nokia World, Kevin Systrom, Instagram CEO and co-founder, said in a statement the photo and video sharing app will make its way to the operating system in the “coming weeks.” Meanwhile, Flipboard will first land on the Lumia 2520, the company’s Windows RT tablet, before it is brought to other Windows Phone devices. 

Flipboard updates app for iOS 7

Flipboard has also updated its iOS app to be iOS 7-ready. Its biggest and possibly coolest change is that the full-screen magazine covers now support the parallax effect similar to what the new iOS home screen does. You also get iOS 7-style controls and “flatter treatment of images.”