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  Facebook Acquires Book App Developer Push Pop Press

  1788 readers By Hannah Johnson Facebook announced Tuesday that it has bought Push Pop Press, the company behind the much-hyped e-book app, Our Choice by Al Gore. Push Pop Press founders, Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris, said of the acquisition, “we’re taking our publishing technology and everything we’ve learned and are setting off to help design the world’s largest

• Facebook Buys Digital Book Publisher Push Pop Press

  2480 readershttp://paidcontent.org/article/419-facebook-buys-digital-book-publisher-push-pad-press/ Although Facebook isn’t planning to start publishing digital books, the ideas and technology behind Push Pop Press will be integrated with Facebook, giving people even richer ways to share their stories. With millions of people publishing to Facebook each --- Saved by iamPariah at 02 Aug, url details

• Facebook Buys Digital Book Publisher Push Pop Press

  747 readershttp://paidcontent.org/article/419-facebook-buys-digital-book-publisher-push-pad-press/ Although Facebook isn’t planning to start publishing digital books, the ideas and technology behind Push Pop Press will be integrated with Facebook, giving people even richer ways to share their stories. With millions of people publishing to Facebook each --- Saved by iamPariah at 02 Aug, url details

• Facebook Buys Digital Book Publisher Push Pop Press

  484 readershttp://paidcontent.org/article/419-facebook-buys-digital-book-publisher-push-pad-press/ Although Facebook isn’t planning to start publishing digital books, the ideas and technology behind Push Pop Press will be integrated with Facebook, giving people even richer ways to share their stories. With millions of people publishing to Facebook each --- Saved by iamPariah at 02 Aug, url details

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  Facebook buys Push Pop Press e-publishing firm

  1637 readersToday Push Pop Press, the e-publishing firm who produced an interactive version of an Al Gore climatology book, announced today that it has been acquired by Facebook. Facebook has no interest in publishing interactive e-books, and Push Pop has announced it will no longer be publishing anything. Instead, Facebook will be incorporating Push Pop’s technology

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  Facebook Acquires eBook Developer Push Pop Press

  1895 readersCould this be the next AOL? Facebook has just acquired Push Pop Press, creator of Al Gore’s Our Choice eBook app. The financial details haven’t been disclosed, but PPP did say that “we’re taking our publishing technology and everything we’ve learned and are setting off to help design the world’s largest book, Facebook.” PPP

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  Will Facebook become an ebook publisher?

  1065 readers Fiction Writers Review discusses this, which was fueled by Facepbook’s acquisition of publisher Push Pop Press.  After saying that Facebook denies that it is interested in doing this, the article goes on to say: But members of the media aren’t quite sure Facebook is being completely honest. The New York Times remains skeptical: Facebook has made it

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  Facebook Buys Instagram

  934 readersFacebook has bought the photosharing app company Instagram for reportedly a $1 billion. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the news in a blog post on Facebook in which he explained that he hopes to spread the app to more people around the world. Here is more from the blog post: “We think the fact that Instagram is

• Leaving Facebook

  1003 readersDark clouds formed in happy valley today. The two biggest? Facebook bought Instagram for a billion dollars and Microsoft bought 800 patents from AOL for a billion plus. Two billion dollars spent. For what? I’m trying to find a comparison for the Instagram purchase. Adobe’s initial 1989 deal for Photoshop provided a guarantee of $250,000 for

• Facebook is Running Scared

  472 readersThere’s an excellent article in the London Financial Times that’s the best I’ve yet seen describing the real challenge facing Facebook and by simple extension the Internet, as it exists today. Called Facebook is Scared of the Internet, journalist John Gapper characterizes the $1 billion purchase of Instagram not as any sort of long-term planning but simply as a