RSS Reader App Graze Acquired by Flipboard

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Graze, an RSS reading application, has joined Flipboard, the digital magazine and news aggregation platform. The announcement was made via a post on Graze's own platform. Details about the financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The move suggests Flipboard is expanding its suite of content discovery and reading tools. Users of Graze may see integration with Flipboard's broader ecosystem going forward.

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