Social reading app and Flipboard-rival Taptu has touched down in Asia, after it launched local apps for Android and iOS in India and, initially, on Android alone in China. The service — which was bought by Mediafed in September — is expected to become available for iOS in China in January; the company is aiming for a cumulative 20 million downloads across both countries within six months....
Taptu, a social media and social search company, announced today its plans to expand beyond its current lineup of mobile apps in order to include a new, white label offering called Tapform. As the name implies, Tapform is a platform for publishers, developers and hardware manufacturers interested in building their own social news aggregator. The launch will be made possible by way of Taptu’s newly-received $3.5 million in Series B funding from U.K.-based DFJ Esprit and French firm Sofinnova.
From its founding in 2007, Taptu was a startup that specialized in search and touch-based interfaces for mobile, launching a realtime mobile search engine in conjunction with OneRiot back in 2009, for example. In November of last year, however, the startup made the smart decision to bring its mobile search proficiency into the news reader market, launching Flipboard-like Android and iPhone apps that brought an interesting value proposition to bear on the burgeoning mobile reader market: Users could aggr...
Taptu is another entry into the magazine-style social news reader apps available for the iPad, and while it does present itself in a unique way as compared to similar apps,…