Facebook's Paper Doesn't Scare Other News Apps

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Whatever you want to call Facebook's Paper — be it a magazine, a newspaper, a content platform or just a fancy-looking newsfeed — the app brings the social media company into a crowded media platform field.


Sites and apps like Flipboard, Feedly, Zite, Pulse and Inside.com, just to name a few, each have their niche but are now dwarfed by the entry of the most dominant web media host by every metric


Paper will not launch until Feb. 3, but industry players had varied reactions to Facebook's most unique offering to date.


Edwin Khodabakchian, co-founder and CEO of news aggregator Feedly, said he found Paper to be a vote of confidence in the move toward the consumption of customized media streams. Read more...


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