Facebook Announces Paper, A Curated Visual News Reader Launching Feb. 3 on iOS

You miss great content because you aren't subscribed
to the right sources. So Facebook wants to bring you
content serendipity with Paper, a stand alone iOS news reader app it revealed today that delivers human and algorithm-curated full-screen articles and photos
in categories you select like Tech, LOL, and Pop
Culture. Paper launches to everyone in the U.S. on
February 3rd, the day before Facebook's 10th
birthday.

Paper is the first app out of Facebook Creative Labs, an initiative to let small teams within Facebook build
standalone mobile experiences as if they were nimble
startups. Facebook Creative Labs will carry out the
strategy Mark Zuckerberg discussed on yesterday's
earnings call of conquering mobile with an array of single-purpose experiences rather than cramming more functionality into Facebook's core app....