Instapaper says Pinterest will transfer ownership of the service to an independent company owned and operated by the team that has worked on it since 2013
the read-it-later service goes indie again Seamus Bellamy / Boing Boing : Instapaper leaves Pinterest Rob LeFebvre / Engadget : Instapaper buys itself back from Pinterest Ryan Christoffel / MacStories : After Two Years with Pinterest, Instapaper Regains Its Independence Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch : Instapaper is leaving Pinterest, two years after being acquired Tweets: @ow : a rough timeline of instapaper: - Pinterest acquires Instapaper - Pinterest does nothing with Instapaper - Instapaper closes in Europe because of GDPR [weeks pass] - Instapaper... goes independent again? http://twitter.com/... Alex Heath / @alexeheath : Some clarification from a Pinterest spokesperson: The two employees Pinterest brought on from the Instapaper acquisition will continue working at Pinterest and run Instapaper independently on the side. So sounds like Instapaper wasn't really working out inside of Pinterest. Marco Arment / @marcoarment : Instapaper is leaving Pinterest, going indie again with the team that was running it before: http://blog.instapaper.com/...I bet this is very good news for the future of Instapaper. See also Mediagazer