Twitter acquires Scroll

Twitter has acquired Scroll, an ad-free news reader product as it expects to shift the service into a new subscription offering being planned. Scroll works with a few publishers, including BuzzFeed News, the Atlantic and USA Today, offering stories from these publications to paying customers with the stories being ad-free and Scroll sharing a certain […]

Scroll launches ad-free news service

Scroll, a start-up owned by Gannett, the New York Times and Samsung, launched its ad-free news service on Tuesday. Co-founded by Tony Haile, Scroll costs $4.99 per month after an introductory rate of $2.49 per month for the first six months. Currently, the news service works with more than 300 sites, with plans for adding […]