Marco Arment
Marco Arment is an iOS and web developer and technology blogger living in Westchester, New York. He created and currently operates the Instapaper ... More »
Instapaper Founder Marco Arment On The App Economy : Planet Money : NPR
Our guest on the show is Marco Arment, one of the founders of the blogging platform Tumblr. A few years back, Marco launched a little side project called Instapaper. Instapaper was a Web-based service that solved a small problem Marco had: He would come across long articles ... Read more »
Marco Arment: The Hero of Apple's Appageddon
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt July 6, 2012: 7:57 AM ET Apple apparently neglected to contact Marco Arment, a co-founder of Tumblr, the creator of the popular Instapaper app and a iOS developer with an unusually large following through his blog, his Twitter account ( @marcoarment ) and his ... Read more »
Calm down, Marco: micropublishing is about more than just The Magazine
Marco Arment, founder of The Magazine and Instapaper, today took to his blog to tut-tut over the emergence of a startup that is building a platform to make digital magazines for the iPhone and iPad easy to create. Seattle-based TypeEngine caught Arment’s attention with a ... Read more »
Marco Arment makes zines cool again, and potentially profitable
Marco Arment makes zines cool again, and potentially profitable Instapaper founder and Tumblr co-founder Marco Arment attracted a lot of attention in the middle of October with the launch of The Magazine, an iOS-only publication that focuses squarely on good writing without the ... Read more »
Betaworks’ John Borthwick Weighs In On Acquiring Instapaper
It was just last week that Betaworks announced it had acquired a majority stake in fan-favorite reading service Instapaper, and today on the Disrupt NY stage, betaworks CEO John Borthwick shed some new light on the process of striking a deal with Instapaper creator Marco Arment. “I got ... Read more »
Digg Owner Betaworks Buys Instapaper To Go Big On Social Reading And Discovery
Nine months later, Betaworks has acquired another news-oriented application, this time bringing Marco Arment’s popular story-saving app Instapaper into the fold. In an email, Betaworks founder and CEO John Borthwick remarked that the acquisition clarifies Betaworks’ role as a company ... Read more »
Opera: Strong iPhone 5 Adoption And Sticky iPad Usage Keeps iOS As Top Platform For Mobile Advertisi...
It’s not a direct point of comparison, but earlier today Marco Arment, the founder of the read-it-easier/later app Instapaper, gave out some stats on how his app is being used across Apple devices. iPhones: 3GS: 4% 4: 26% 4S: 38% 5: 32% Touches: 2G: 6% 3G: 13% 4G: 66% 5G: 14% Overall: ... Read more »
Instapaper begets The Magazine, for Apple's iOS only
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt October 11, 2012: 12:03 PM ET FORTUNE -- Like a lot of people who keep up with such things, I know quite a bit about Marco Arment. I know he was one of the founders of Tumblr. I know he created Instapaper. And because I follow Build and Analyze, his weekly podcast ... Read more »
Instapaper Abandons iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G
Developer Marco Arment has announced plans to drop support for a couple of iOS devices in the next version of his popular reading application, Instapaper. Apparently fed up with the crashes experienced by users of Instapaper on iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G players, Arment reveals ... Read more »
Investment Firm Y Combinator Goes on Offensive Against Hollywood
Marco Arment, a developer and the founder of Instapaper, wrote a similar post on his Web site, stating that people needed to fight back against Hollywood after it managed to get the piracy bills into Congress. “Such ridiculous, destructive bills should never even pass committee review,” ... Read more »
Betaworks takes majority stock in Instapaper
Marco Arment, the creator of the "read later" app, decides to step back and let startup-launcher Betaworks take control. Instapaper creator Marco Arment has sold a majority stake of the service to the New York-based Betaworks, Arment announced on his blog today. Instapaper ... Read more »
The Magazine learns the vital importance of being open
Bouie’s story, “And Read All Over,” was first published in The Magazine, at that point an iOS-only publication started by Marco Arment, the founder of Instapaper. It was just the sort of newsy, controversial debate that can help a new publication raise its profile. But The Magazine got ... Read more »
How To Start A Magazine (And Make A Profit) : Planet Money : NPR
Last fall, Marco Arment launched a general interest magazine. It's called, aptly enough, The Magazine. Writers are paid $800 per article. There are no ads. Until recently, it was available only via iPhones and iPads. Astonishingly, it's already turning a profit. Arment walked me ... Read more »
iPhone Plus Could Steal A Winning Play From The iPad Mini's Playbook, In Reverse
This week, I discussed Instapaper founder Marco Arment’s speculation about how a retina version of the iPad Mini might not be far off. Arment apparently can’t resist taking the next logical step and prognosticating on the rumored iPhone Plus (or, um, Math), Apple ‘s putative entry ... Read more »
Instapaper founder Marco Arment launches magazine on iTunes
Marco Arment, one of the most creative publishers in the digital world, is trying his hand at one of the most conventional formats in the business — the magazine. After breaking new media ground with products like Tumblr and Instapaper, Marco Arment is turning his attention to a ... Read more »
Apple To Release New iMac Without A Retina Display In Late 2012?
On Friday, Marco Arment, one of the key developers behind Instapaper, published his own theories of when he believes Apple will release the newly-designed iMacs. His blog post was based off "multiple sources" and Cook's e-mail response to the fan. While Arment's theories are ... Read more »
Twitter tightens API rules for developers
That confusion fueled a post from Instapaper creator Marco Arment, who took to his influential blog to detail his take on the new guidelines. He had particularly harsh words for the 100,000-user limit before app makers require special permissions from Twitter. "Translation: 'Once you get ... Read more »
The Company That's Buying the Online News Ecosystem
Yesterday afternoon, the New York-based Betaworks announced it had acquired the first read-it-later service, Instapaper, from its founder and developer, Marco Arment. According to his blog post, Arment concieved and executed the purchase in a day; fans of the service (I count ... Read more »
Instapaper Bought By Betaworks
Instapaper "has simply grown far beyond what one person can do," its creator Marco Arment wrote in a blog post explaining the sale (actually, Betaworks will only take a majority stake, not buy the thing outright). "To really shine, it needs a full-time staff of at least a few people," ... Read more »
Betaworks Just Bought Instapaper
Instapaper, the popular read-it-later application from Marco Arment. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Betaworks, the parent company of the all-new (and pretty amazing) Digg.com, just bought a majority stake in Instapaper, the popular read-it-later service from Marco Arment. It’s yet ... Read more »
