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| Apr 10, 2016 | The iPad Pro is the most accessible computer Apple has ever built | Steven Aquino Contributor
Steven Aquino is a freelance tech writer and iOS accessibility expert.
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| Feb 19, 2016 | Microsoft Launches Plumbago, A Paper App Competitor That Lets You Sketch & Handwrite Notes | Microsoft’s Office suite already has a popular note-taking app with OneNote, but today the company is turning its attention to how note-taking should work on tablets that support stylus and touch-based input. The company has now released Pl... |
| Oct 20, 2015 | Microsoft OneNote now supports FiftyThree’s Pencil and Paper on iPad | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Microsoft today announced that its OneNote note-t... |
| Sep 10, 2015 | 15M downloads in, FiftyThree brings its Paper drawing app to iPhone | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
FiftyThree, the company behind popular drawing app Paper and a smart stylus called Pencil, has shaken off its iPad roots by finally lau... |
| Sep 9, 2015 | Here’s what FiftyThree thinks of Apple copying its ‘Pencil’ stylus | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Apple today unveiled the Pencil, a sleek new $99 stylus designed for the iPad.
But for the past two years, a startup called FiftyThree ... |
| Sep 9, 2015 | Here’s what FiftyThree thinks of Apple copying its ‘Pencil’ stylus | Apple today unveiled the Pencil, a sleek new $99 stylus designed for the iPad.
But for the past two years, a startup called FiftyThree already offered a stubby stylus designed for the iPad. And FiftyThree also named that stylus “Pencil.” Fi... |
| May 12, 2015 | FiftyThree’s Paper app now helps you sketch graphs by hand with new auto-correction and diagram tools | FiftyThree, the New York-based company behind a popular drawing app and accompanying smart stylus, has revealed its next steps to infiltrate the potentially lucrative enterprise realm: a new set of digital drawing tools designed to expedite... |
| May 12, 2015 | FiftyThree Adds Think Kit, A New Toolset For Enterprise Users, To Its Paper App | FiftyThree, a startup focused on unlocking creativity on the iPad, is rolling out a new set of tools that it hopes will address a whole new set of users. With the introduction of its new Think Kit toolset in its Paper app, FiftyThree will e... |
| May 12, 2015 | FiftyThree’s Paper app now helps you sketch graphs by hand with new auto-correction and diagram tools | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
FiftyThree, the New York-based company behind a popular drawing app and accompanying smart stylus, has revealed its next steps to infil... |
| Mar 20, 2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 3/20/15 | InsideSales, Conversa Health, Glooko, Health Catalyst, Shuddle, Clearpath, GelSight, 1Mainstream
(Come mingle with hundreds of top venture capitalists representing $10B-plus in capital under management, including Khosla Ventures, Greylock a... |
| Mar 17, 2015 | FiftyThree raises $30M to push its Paper and Pencil creativity tools in enterprise and education | FiftyThree, the company behind popular drawing app Paper and a smart stylus called Pencil, has raised $30 million to help push its presence in the enterprise and education realm.
The New York-based company has made a big name for itself in ... |
| Mar 17, 2015 | FiftyThree Draws $30M Series B to Launch Think Kit in April | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
FiftyThree, the company known for creating sketching app Paper and the stylus Pencil, is taking $30 million of venture capital from New Enterprise Associates and its other maj... |
| Mar 17, 2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| Mar 17, 2015 | FiftyThree Lands $30M From NEA To Build Creation Tools For Enterprise And Education Users | FiftyThree has spent the last several years making products to increase creativity among users. Now the company has an eye on producing new tools not just for the consumer market, but that enterprise and education users could also leverage.... |
| Mar 17, 2015 | ‘Paper’ app maker FiftyThree raises $30M to fuel development of new iPad productivity tool | “Paper” will include a “Think Kit” toolbox for creating ideas more efficiently.
FiftyThree has already developed an “App of the Year.” It built hardware that garnered 4 and 5-star reviews on Amazon. And just this month, the company’s commun... |
| Mar 17, 2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Norwest, Kaiser, & others bet $70M on Health Catalyst’s analytics platform
Health data analytics firms have come into vo... |
| Mar 17, 2015 | FiftyThree Raises $30M in Series B Funding | FiftyThree, a NYC- and Seattle, WA-based maker of mobile tools for creation, raised $30m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Dayna Grayson of New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from existing investors.
The company inte... |
| Mar 17, 2015 | FiftyThree raises $30M to push its Paper and Pencil creativity tools in enterprise and education | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
FiftyThree, the company behind popular drawing ap... |
| Mar 12, 2015 | Dear Packaging, I Hate You | Ben Einstein Contributor
Editor’s note: Ben Einstein is a founder and general partner at Bolt, a seed-stage fund that invests capital, staff, prototyping facilities and expertise in startups at the intersection of hardware and software.
Few... |
| Mar 10, 2015 | Adobe updates Photoshop Mix with stylus support and new photo editing features | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today Adobe updated one of Photoshop’s younger si... |
| Mar 10, 2015 | Adobe updates Photoshop Mix with stylus support and new photo editing features | Today Adobe updated one of Photoshop’s younger siblings: Photoshop Mix.
The iOS app hit version 1.5 today with the addition of stylus support (for Adobe’s Ink, Wacom styli, and FiftyThree’s Pencil), support for merging images, and the abili... |
| Feb 5, 2015 | 13M downloads later, FiftyThree bets on stylus sales as its ‘Paper’ drawing app goes completely free | FiftyThree has made a big name for itself in the digital creativity sphere, chiefly for Paper — which Apple named as iPad app of the year in 2012 — and a smart stylus called “Pencil” that lets you easily commit ideas to a virtual sketchpad.... |
| Feb 5, 2015 | FiftyThree Makes Popular Creativity App ‘Paper’ Free Of Charge | FiftyThree, maker of the Paper app and the accompanying Pencil stylus for the iPad, is shaking up its strategy by dropping the price of every feature in its app to zero.
Originally, FiftyThree let you get a taste of Paper’s smooth interface... |
| Oct 29, 2014 | Alert David Hockney — FiftyThree Opens Mix Platform, Updates App For Fine Drawing | FiftyThree, maker of the fine-art drawing app Paper and its accompanying iPad stylus ‘Pencil’ unveiled an online platform accessible within the app called Mix. This third phase of the company saw it entering the real of cloud collaboration,... |
| Sep 16, 2014 | FiftyThree’s Paper Introduces ‘Mix’ To Give Creators A New Way To Collaborate With Others | Since inception, FiftyThree has been all about helping to unlock its users’ creativity. With the introduction of its Paper app and its iPad stylus Pencil, the company has provided tools that can be used on a wide variety of different drawin... |
| Jul 23, 2014 | FiftyThree Releases SDK So Third-Party Apps Can Use Its Pencil Stylus | FiftyThree, maker of creativity app Paper and iPad stylus Pencil, wants more users. To do so, it’s going to make its Pencil hardware available for third-party developers to use with their own creativity products with the launch of an SDK.
W... |
| Jul 16, 2014 | Clever Pencil Stylus For The Paper App Now Available In Europe | Last year FiftyThree, the company behind the popular iPad creativity app Paper, launched into the hardware space with a new stylus it called “Pencil.”
The stylus is now available in Europe from Amazon UK, Germany and France.
Pencil can be c... |
| Jun 17, 2014 | Pencil By FiftyThree Gets Surface Pressure In A Free Update Coming For iOS 8 | Pencil, the iPad stylus from app-maker turned hardware builder FiftyThree, is getting an update that allows it to change the character of lines drawn in its Paper app based on how you apply the unique tip of the pen to the iPad’s surface. I... |
| Jun 17, 2014 | Pencil, the $60 iPad stylus, will get pressure-sensitivity with iOS 8 | Pencil, a high-end iPad stylus that looks like a carpenter’s pencil, will add pressure-sensing capabilities this fall.
FiftyThree, the New York- and Seattle-based company that designed the Pencil, is announcing the new feature this morning.... |
| Jun 10, 2014 | TC Cribs: Feeling Like A Kid Again At FiftyThree’s Creative NYC HQ | Welcome back to Cribs, the TechCrunch TV show that goes behind the doors of tech companies to see what it’s like inside for the lucky ducks who work there.
Today’s episode brings us to the New York City headquarters of FiftyThree. FiftyThre... |
| Mar 30, 2014 | Microsoft Office, Now On iOS, Highlights A Powerful Lesson For Incumbents | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor at Haystack. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
Finally, Microsoft’s flagship Office suite (Excel, PPT, Word) is... |
| Mar 12, 2014 | FiftyThree Updates Creativity App Paper For iOS 7 To Improve Navigation And Control | FiftyThree has thrived over the last few years, due to the massive popularity of its drawing and creativity app Paper and the release of its complementary Pencil stylus. Today it’s taking a big step to improve the creation process with an u... |
| Feb 7, 2014 | Let’s Just Forget Everything | I always think a little historical perspective is good in a fast-moving industry like tech. So when Facebook released Paper this week, I did what any decent tech journalist would do — I visited the website of the Robert C. Williams Paper Mu... |
| Feb 5, 2014 | What’s in a name? The view from Baltimore tech company Figure 53 | Facebook just released a new app, Paper, for sharing stories with friends.
Trouble is, a tech startup called FiftyThree — which makes apps for artists — has had an app named Paper. Released in 2012, the app lets people draw on their iPad mu... |
| Feb 4, 2014 | Facebook will have to fight to keep the name "Paper" | FiftyThree, the company behind drawing app Paper, has filed to for a trademark on the name
It's only been one day since Facebook released its new reader app, called Paper, but it has already begun ginning up controversy.
The problem is... |
| Feb 3, 2014 | Paper CEO to Facebook: ‘Stop using our brand name’ | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
[Updated at 1:07 pm with comments from Paper.]
Paper has been around for nearly 2,000 years, but now a battle for its name is brewing i... |
| Feb 3, 2014 | Facebook “Paper” May Beat Trademark Complaint As Drawing App Is Registered As “Paper By FiftyThree” | There’s a whole stack of apps named “Paper” in the App Store, but Facebook’s new one may come out on top despite a requested name change from drawing app maker FiftyThree. One problem is that FiftyThree registered its app’s trademark as “Pa... |
| Feb 3, 2014 | A Tale Of Two ‘Papers’ | Here’s something that most people forget about the story of David and Goliath: both sides were at war. Facebook, our very own Goliath, and FiftyThree, the David-size company responsible for a design app called Paper, are well aware of this.... |
| Feb 3, 2014 | Paper CEO to Facebook: ‘Stop using our brand name’ | [Updated at 1:07 pm with comments from Paper.]
Paper has been around for nearly 2,000 years, but now a battle for its name is brewing in the digital world.
Facebook launched a new mobile news app called “Paper” last week.
However Paper is a... |
| Dec 23, 2013 | Deals of the Year: The top 28 venture capital investments we tracked in 2013 | Venture capital investing in Washington state started out with a whimper in 2013, but it is ending with a bang.
After the slow start, as evidenced by the chart above from CB Insights in which just $100 million was invested in the first quar... |
| Nov 19, 2013 | Pencil meets Paper: FiftyThree’s new $50 stylus for iPad joins acclaimed sketchbook app | “Pencil” is FiftyThree’s first foray into the hardware space. Photo courtesy of FiftyThree.
Nestled inside FiftyThree’s Seattle office on a typically rainy fall afternoon, I’m enjoying a quick chat with Ian MacDuff, a veteran developer work... |
| Nov 19, 2013 | FiftyThree, Maker Of Creativity App Paper, Gets Into Hardware With Launch Of Its ‘Pencil’ Stylus | FiftyThree, the company behind the wildly popular iPad creativity app Paper, is making its first foray into hardware with the launch of a new stylus it’s creatively named “Pencil.”
For those who know FiftyThree mostly for its iPad app, it m... |
| Oct 31, 2013 | Startup School notes are now for sale as a book, all profits go to Watsi | Startup Notes is now selling its doodles from Startup School 2013 in book form, and they’re donating 100% of the profits to Watsi. A note from Startup Notes creator Gregory Koberger:
“Like everyone else at Startup School, I was mesmerized ... |
| Aug 22, 2013 | iPad Animation App Loop Captures The Fun Of Making Doodled Flipbooks | Remember turning the corners of your class notes into flipbooks with a sequence of tiny drawings? iPad app Loop recreates the glee of watching your doodles come to life by making it easy to create frame-by-frame animations. Loop, which cost... |
| Jul 21, 2013 | Q&A: FiftyThree’s Jon Harris on the power of the iPad as a creation device | Jon Harris
The New York and Seattle startup FiftyThree is made up of Microsoft vets. But they’ve certainly mastered Apple’s iPad with their blockbuster app Paper, named Apple’s 2012 App of the Year for iPad. We chatted with FiftyThree co-fo... |
| Jun 25, 2013 | A New Golden Age Of Productivity Software Is Dawning | As Microsoft struggles to bring its lucrative Office franchise to Android, iPhone and iPad, investors and developers are seizing the opportunity to create business and productivity software optimized for the new era of mobile computing.
The... |
| Jun 22, 2013 | GeekWire Radio: FiftyThree’s Jon Harris on Paper, Courier and the future of tablets | Tablets are great for watching movies, playing games or checking email — a.k.a. consumption devices. But can they be an effective means for creating cool stuff? Our guest on the GeekWire radio show this week believes that they can. Jon Harr... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | Funding Daily: The doctor is in | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
You’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is ... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | FiftyThree Raises $15M in Funding | FiftyThree, a NYC-based startup that is building a suite of mobile tools for creativity, raised $15m in funding.
The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (Chris Dixon blogged about it here), with participation from Highline Ventures, Thrive... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | FiftyThree raises $15M to unleash your creativity with Paper | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
FiftyThree is going on fifteen. Fifteen million dollars, that is.
FiftyThree is the company behind Paper, an iPad app that Apple named ... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | FiftyThree, Maker Of Drawing App Paper, Raises $15 Million From Andreessen Horowitz And Others | FiftyThree, the startup behind the wildly popular drawing app Paper, has closed a Series A round of financing led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Highline Ventures, Thrive Capital, SV Angels, and Jack Dorsey. The investment ... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | FiftyThree, Maker of Paper App, Raises $15M To Build New Tools | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
FiftyThree, the Seattle- and New York-based company behind one of the most successful iPad apps of the last year, has raised $15 million to expand its minimalist approach to m... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | FiftyThree raises $15M to unleash your creativity with Paper | FiftyThree is going on fifteen. Fifteen million dollars, that is.
FiftyThree is the company behind Paper, an iPad app that Apple named 2012 iPad App of the Year. Today FiftyThree closed a $15 million deal led by Chris Dixon at Andreessen Ho... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | Microsoft Courier vets score $15M from Andreessen Horowitz to expand beyond blockbuster iPad app Paper | FiftyThree, maker of the sketching and illustration app Paper, the Apple 2012 iPad App of the Year, has scored $15 million in fresh funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Highline Ventures, Thrive Capital, SV Angels and Twitter founder Jack Dors... |
| May 23, 2013 | Paper Creators FiftyThree Mulling More Products, And A Tablet Stylus Might Be Next | Paper by FiftyThree is one of the most beautiful digital products on the market today.
The immersive drawing app for tablets has won Apple’s Design Award, a Crunchie, and was most recently honored at Time Inc.’s 10 NYC Startups To Watch par... |
| Feb 16, 2013 | London’s Fashionistas have Taken Apple's Technology to Heart
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Search | Fashion Photographer Uzo Oleh says that the "iPhone and iPad are changing the way people consume fashion; five years ago pictures had to look great on a desktop computer because that's what the majority of people used. Now it'... |
| Jun 13, 2012 | A visual tour of the 2012 Apple Design Awards winners | Love it or hate it, Apple is about design.
The company’s annual design awards were announced this week at the World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Calif., showcasing the best the iOS and Mac development communities have produc... |
| Jun 13, 2012 | A visual tour of the 2012 Apple Design Awards winners | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Love it or hate it, Apple is about design.
The company’s annual design awards were announced this week at the World Wide Developers Con... |
| Jun 9, 2012 | The Re-Imagination Of Everything: I’m Pissed That The Future’s Not Here Fast Enough | I’ve seen the future, and it consists of a 5 foot eleven-inch “hologram” of Tupac rapping onstage with an incredibly stoned Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre at Coachella. Despite all the (consumer Internet) startups I interact with — with the possibl... |
| Mar 29, 2012 | 5 Apps for Working From the iPad | Let’s be real about this. You can’t do everything on an iPad. As Shawn Blanc pointed out the other day, you can’t make iOS apps on it, for example. But you might be surprised by how much real work you can do on it with the right tools. If y... |
