A week after launching the app, Flipboard's racked up a million downloads and tripled their engagement (measured in "flips per month"). "Every industry, every type of business we think about needs to be fundamentally reinvented in the face of social," cofounder Evan Doll tells us.
For Fast Company's "Case for Girls" package, several advertising agencies came up with mock ads as a response for the rampant cultural preference for baby boys over baby girls. One agency, AKQA, hopes to transform their campaign for Chinese women from a thought experiment into the real deal with a new website, a gripping video, and the push for a mobilizing event in March 2012.
Tips on how to meet a terrorist husband? Ideas for keeping your skin beautiful underneath a niqab? Poetry about the Holy War? Enter the bizarre world of Al Qaeda's newest Cosmo-like magazine for women.
Flipboard, the popular news aggregator/browser app, just got a significant makeover that boosts speed and includes Instagram support and a clever social search. Let the news-browser wars begin.
The upcoming iPad app is designed to deliver news in a new, interactive way. Can it challenge existing apps such as Flipboard and help return AOL to relevance?