Report: Facebook Working on a Flipboard-Like News Reader

Aiming to engage more mobile users, Facebook is working on a Flipboard-like news reader, according to a report.

Facebook has been developing the project for more than a year, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cites "people with knowledge of the project." The report comes after Tom Waddington, a web developer for the blog Cut + Keep, wrote that he spotted Facebook code for RSS feeds, with each showing multiple entries and a list of subscribers. Waddington's report came about a week before Facebook's announcement that it was . However, many speculated that the announcement was actually going to be about the introduction of an RSS reader, especially since Google is planning to retire its Reader by July 1.