Flipboard, a Palo Alto startup funded by investors including Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is adding content from Google Reader and photo site Flickr to its iPad app.
Last week, Apple named Flipboard — which creates a “social magazine” from a user’s Facebook and Twitter feeds — its “iPad app of the year.”
“Many of our readers use Google Reader and Flickr for news and photos curated by people they trust,” founder and CEO Mike McCue said in a news release Thursday. “The full integration of these social networks takes us another step toward realizing our vision of a social magazine that puts everything you care about in one place.”
Flipboard is also adding the ability to post to Twitter and Facebook from within the app.
The company has raised $10.5 million from funding investors including Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures and angel investors. According to TechCrunch, those angel investors include Ron Conway’s SV Angel, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and actor Ashton Kutcher.
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