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To outward appearances, all elements necessary to fuel a thriving second screen app market exist today.

Flipboard added new features to its “Flip It” button that now gives Flipboard curators more control over their magazines.

BuzzFeed, Google, Unilever and The Weather Channel had some contrasting views on HTML5 apps, the future of mobile advertising and the role of mobile in the media industry at a recent event in London.

Another year of declining print sales for magazine publishers seems inevitable, but the digital future looks brighter. New research from Adobe suggests that not only are tablet magazines growing quickly, but that readers are even willing to pay for them.

Just as the Web spawned the Intranet and other enterprise systems that are ubiquitous today, the app world is helping to make legitimate productivity tools out of a whole range of mobile.

Two new reports suggest that advertisers are just starting to realize the full potential of tablet advertising.

While guitars, drums and microphones are the standard tools for School of Rock students, tablets are helping the organization’s after-school program keep up with the times, reach a new generation of musicians and turn up the volume to 11.

A new report details just how fast tablet ownership is growing in the U.S. and why.

Some people use their tablet as a bigger-than-a-smartphone video screen for content consumption, while others use it as a desktop companion. I say adding a stylus will change your tablet experience and make you more productive.

Mag+ has been helping brands make tablet magazines since the first iPad was launched. TabTimes caught up with CEO Gregg Hano to find out where the market is headed and whether Android tablets are ready to become a serious challenger to the the iPad.

While it is typical for employees to bring tablet computers into the workplace, it’s a different situation when customers influence the use of iPads in business as the preferred method of engagement for sales and marketing teams.

What a year it’s been for tablets. The iPad saw some of its first real competition from Android tablets (Kindle Fire and Nexus 7 among others) and, late in year, Windows 8 models including Microsoft’s own Surface line. Apple didn’t stand still, introducing new models of the Retina Display iPad and the iPad’s first kid brother, the iPad mini.