Yahoo Launches "Livestand"

One more aggregator. NYTimes: "Yahoo on Thursday announced the debut of Livestand, a publishing platform that aims to deliver personalized content to mobile devices. As The New York Times first reported on Sunday, the platform, a digital newsstand, will offer a continuous stream of programming based on users’ interests. Yahoo plans to push the platform across multiple formats, including tablets, smartphones, and Web browsers, according to the company’s press release."

LibreDigital Debuts SkyShelf Reader for the Starbucks Digital Network

PW: "Digital distributer LibreDigital has teamed up with Starbucks and Yahoo! to show off the LibreDigital SkyShelf HTML5 Reader, a new wireless technology that will initially supply e-book content to the Starbucks Digital Network, a new multimedia entertainment service launching this week that will deliver books, music, newspapers, movies and other content to consumers in Starbucks stores around the country. Much like the long-delayed Google Editions service, LibreDigital’s SkyShelf HTML5 technology will allow consumers to read e-books through the web browsers of any kind of device and LibreDigital plans to launch a broader range of SkyShelf-powered partnerships by early November."