Facebook's Paper App Sounds a Bit Too Familiar to One Company

FiftyThree has publicly asked Facebook to change the name of its recently released news reader, Paper

FiftyThree is the company behind a popular illustration app by the same name of Paper. The program has been highly regarded, receiving a variety of positive reviews as well as being named the iPad app of the year in 2012.

Facebook announced in late January that it would release a news reader app called Paper, which went live on Monday.

The move spurred FiftyThree's founder to reach out to Facebook, FiftyThree co-founder and CEO Georg Petschnigg told Mashble.

Facebook declined to change the name, spurring Petschnigg to take his appeal public. Read more...

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