Disqus
RSS news feed monetization company Mediafed is acquiring Taptu, known for its mobile news aggregation platform that allows users to “DJ their news.” Mediafed’s goal is to bring together two powerful services and eventually take on services like Flipboard. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Mediafed has built a profitable and fast-growth platform for monetizing RSS, working with over 1,200 premium publishers around the globe such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, El Mundo and Sueddeutsche to name a few. Taptu’s mobile news reader is one of the most popular such apps across multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Samsung and mobile Web. Its technology is supported by numerous accolades like The Meffy Award for Best Content Discovery & Personalization, 148Apps’ Best App Ever Award for Best News App on the Android Platform and was named one of the best ways to read books, magazines and newspapers by The Wall Street Journal in August 2012.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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