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FiftyThree

File-sharing service WeTransfer acquires Paper and Paste creative apps from FiftyThree

File-sharing company WeTransfer has acquired the Paper and Paste creative apps from FiftyThree. Founded in 2011, New York City-based FiftyThree was known for developing… Read More

Microsoft partners with FiftyThree for support of Paper app, Pencil stylus on OneNote

Microsoft and FiftyThree are teaming up to offer more digital handwriting functionality on OneNote. The Redmond giant announced today that… Read More

‘Paper’ app maker FiftyThree responds to Apple’s new $99 Pencil stylus

FiftyThree has a new hardware competitor: Apple. At Apple’s big event this morning, the tech giant unveiled a new $99… Read More

FiftyThree’s Paper iPad app adds Think Kit productivity tools for enterprise, education users

FiftyThree today added a new set of productivity tools to its Paper app that are targeted toward education and enterprise… Read More

‘Paper’ app maker FiftyThree raises $30M to fuel development of new iPad productivity tool

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… Read More

All drawing tools in FiftyThree’s popular iPad sketch app Paper are now free

FiftyThree, maker of the popular Paper sketchbook app for the iPad, announced today that its Paper drawing tools are now all free. Previously,… Read More

Paper drawing app for iPad gets new artistic collaboration service

FiftyThree, the company behind the Paper drawing app for iPad and the Pencil stylus, announced today that it’s launching a… Read More

FiftyThree opens up SDK to improve the reach of its Pencil stylus

FiftyThree, the creator of the popular Paper drawing application for the iPad, announced today that it has opened up a… Read More

FiftyThree launches redesign of its Paper drawing app for iPad

FiftyThree launched a major update for its Paper drawing app for the iPad today. Version 1.6.1 brings a completely redesigned… Read More

Fighting Facebook: FiftyThree looks to trademark ‘Paper’

FiftyThree, the maker of the acclaimed sketchbook app Paper, is not letting up in a battle with Facebook over its brand… Read More

‘Paper’ maker FiftyThree calls on Facebook to ‘stop using our brand name’

FiftyThree, the maker of the acclaimed sketchbook app Paper, is publicly calling on Facebook to reconsider use of the name… Read More

Facebook unveils new ‘Paper’ app, not to be confused with FiftyThree’s ‘Paper’ app

Ah, the wonderful world of technology product naming. Facebook this morning unveiled an immersive news-reading app called “Paper” that is, in… Read More

Pencil meets Paper: FiftyThree’s new $50 stylus for iPad joins acclaimed sketchbook app

Nestled inside FiftyThree’s Seattle office on a typically rainy fall afternoon, I’m enjoying a quick chat with Ian MacDuff, a… Read More

Blockbuster iPad app Paper partners with Moleskine to print your digital artwork

Sketching artwork on digital devices is pretty cool, but there’s just something about a physical and permanent creation that you… Read More

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… Read More

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