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Socially-curated news reader apps are now becoming the choice method of accessing news content on tablets like the iPad. With magazine-like looks and touch-friendly interfaces, apps like Flipboard, Zite, Pulse and even the upcoming Google Propeller give a social aspect to reading news and interesting feature stories online. Joining the mix is Evri, a mobile app developer that will debut its iPad application today.

The previously lacking WordPress iOS app for iPhones and iPads is finally bringing more flavor to its users. Fitted with a new interface and a heap of improvements, blogging on the go is finally made easy. 

Heads up, WordPress users! This week BuddyPress and bbPress have pushed out a couple of major releases for integrating social features into any standard WordPress theme. 

Atex has announced that it partnered with The Access Network Company to develop new branded-publisher-focused functionality for its Polopoly web content management system, which it said provides small and mid-sized publishers with a platform for deploying customizable, configurable, branded local news and GPS-enabled content.

Mobile devices are becoming more and more of necessities in the workplace. In this so-called post-PC era, professionals need to access information on-the-go, whether on smartphones, ultraportable computers or tablets. If you're a web publisher, you will need to consider that an increasing number of your readers will be using these mobile devices. Some would want to create a native application for tablets, but is this really necessary for everyone?

The latest version of WoodWing Enterprise offers AIR-powered editing, multi-channel text changes, integration of external content and lots of digital magazine features.

Smartphone and tablet applications are becoming a popular means of distributing content. While organizations can design and develop apps from scratch, this can be costly and time-consuming, considering the programming expertise required. The latest release of QuarkXPress simplifies the process of creating branded applications for the iPad, with built-in Quark App Studio.

Google's Blogger.com service powers millions of blogs but has been rather left behind in the rash of recent Google updates and new products. That changes now, as it gets a makeover.

WordPress is already a great tool for communicating ideas, but this week Scribendi is helping the platform move up a notch with advanced editing and proofreading perks. Users simply download the plugin, and posts from that point forward are edited by Scribendi’s professional team of editors in as little as four hours.

Matt Mullenweg, founder of the WordPress web publishing platform, took the stage at the recent San Francisco WordCamp event to share the state of the WordPress union. A key figure: WordPress is now powering 14.7% of the top one million global websites. There's more. 

Wish you could actively rate and share opinions about people in the news? SendLove.to aims to do just that (and much more) with its new people-polling platform that launched today.

Quark Software, Inc., the 30 year-old desktop and multi-channel web publishing stalwart, and competitor of Adobe Systems, has been acquired by a California-based private equity firm. Details of the deal have been kept close to the vest, and management outlook is optimistic.

One of the Worldwide Web Consortium's (news, site) main responsibilities is ensuring that standards in web markup are followed. In the wake of stakeholder discussions, such as the recently concluded working group discussions on multilingual web content practices, the organization has released its updated Internationalization Checker.

 Named after the celebrated pianist and composer George Gershwin, WordPress 3.2 officially hit the shelves today. The 15th major release of the open-source blogging platform brings a refreshed dashboard design and speed with which is has used to leave IE 6 and PHP 4 in the dust. 

As tablet makers struggle to come up with a way around Apple's dominance, HP (news, site) thinks its new magazine/store will help users choose the best apps.