Feedly to capitalise on Google Reader closure, expanding support for Microsoft platforms

There are always providers looking to capitalise on a unmarried political party'south pick on withdrawing a pop service. It'south known across the Internet that the search behemothic is closing downwardly Google Reader, the company's RSS service afterwards this year. Competing services take taken this equally a gold chance to expand business concern and attract those who will be surely looking for an alternative and migrate away from Google. Cue Feedly.

For the moment, Feedly (www.feedly.com) is best known equally an RSS plugin for Chrome, Safari and Firefox, too as an app for iOS and Android. Unfortunately, for the time being the service doesn't currently support Microsoft'southward Windows Telephone and Windows 8 platforms (without going through a web browser). Cyril Moutran, head of product and strategy at Feedly has since confirmed that apps for both Windows Phone and Windows RT / 8 are planned. Good news, folks.

Feedly has claimed the service added an impressive 500,000 new users in the first 48 hours later on Google announced the closure of Google Reader - nosotros expect more will follow suit should the service cover Windows and its mobile counterpart. Moutran failed to provide dates for when consumers tin look to run across the apps available in corresponding stores, but information technology's good to know other services are picking up where Google has left off.

We've also looked at the likes of Nextgen Reader, popular Google Reader apps for Windows Phone, seeking culling services to keep apps alive on the shop and provide a service for consumers who still wish to continue using feeds. Social networks are certainly taking some of the shares away from RSS feeds, only it'due south always handy to be able to pick upwards news stories from multiple categories without clutter and unwanted content.

We'll continue to monitor the state of affairs and follow the developments of Nextgen Reader and other Windows Phone apps.

Source: Neowin

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