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 Paper, its drawing app that won Apple’s iPad App of… Read More
Microsoft and FiftyThree are teaming up to offer more digital handwriting functionality on OneNote. The Redmond giant announced today that its digital note-taking software for iOS and Windows 10 now… Read More
FiftyThree has a new hardware competitor: Apple. At Apple’s big event this morning, the tech giant unveiled a new $99 Apple Pencil that works as a stylus with the company’s… Read More
FiftyThree today added a new set of productivity tools to its Paper app that are targeted toward education and enterprise customers. The company, which employs 28 in Seattle and another 42 in… Read More
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 community of collaborators and creators grew to more than 1… Read More
FiftyThree, maker of the popular Paper sketchbook app for the iPad, announced today that its Paper drawing tools are now all free. Previously, the company gave away its app for free but charged 99… Read More
FiftyThree, the company behind the Paper drawing app for iPad and the Pencil stylus, announced today that it’s launching a new collaboration service called Mix for its users. The service… Read More
FiftyThree, the creator of the popular Paper drawing application for the iPad, announced today that it has opened up a new Software Development Kit for other app developers who want… Read More
FiftyThree launched a major update for its Paper drawing app for the iPad today. Version 1.6.1 brings a completely redesigned interface to the company’s popular app that brings it in… Read More
FiftyThree, the maker of the acclaimed sketchbook app Paper, is not letting up in a battle with Facebook over its brand name and has now filed a trademark application for the… Read More
FiftyThree, the maker of the acclaimed sketchbook app Paper, is publicly calling on Facebook to reconsider use of the name “Paper” for its new storytelling app. In a post on… Read More
Ah, the wonderful world of technology product naming. Facebook this morning unveiled an immersive news-reading app called “Paper” that is, in many ways, an alternative user interface for Facebook itself. The… Read More
Nestled inside FiftyThree’s Seattle office on a typically rainy fall afternoon, I’m enjoying a quick chat with Ian MacDuff, a veteran developer working at the young startup. We’re talking about… Read More
Sketching artwork on digital devices is pretty cool, but there’s just something about a physical and permanent creation that you can hold in your hand. Now, FiftyThree — the company known for the virtual… Read More
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… Read More