BlueToad, Inc.
| Digital Publishing Company | |
| Industry | Digital Publishing |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder | Brad Wriedt, Paul DeHart |
| Headquarters | Orlando, Florida, USA |
| Services | Digital Editions, Mobile Applications, Email Delivery, Analytics |
| Website | BlueToad.com |
BlueToad, Inc. is a digital publishing company that converts PDFs into digital editions viewable on desktop and mobile devices. Types of publications include magazines, retail circulars and catalogs, marketing brochures, and documents.
Company
BlueToad, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Orlando, FL. The original founders are Brad Wriedt and Paul DeHart. In 2013, BlueToad Inc. was named one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in America by Inc. Magazine. The company currently converts over 200,000 pages of content and receives over 100 million page views each month.
Publishers
Some of the publishing partners for BlueToad include:
- Game Informer
- Modern Luxury
- Snap-on
- NAPCO (North American Publishing Co.)
- Road Magazine
- Arhaus
- US Department of State
- Performance Racing Industry
- Public Relations Society of America
Services
BlueToad, Inc. the following services:
- Digital Editions are online publications delivered in electronic form. This includes magazines, catalogs, brochures, and other forms of print.
- Mobile Applications allow publishers to deliver their content over Apple's iPad and iPhone.
- Email Delivery contains certain features such as template design, template modifications, list management, distribution, reply management, analytics, and audit logs.
- Animations can be used to make a digital edition more dynamic and interactive.
- Analytics help publishers keep track of real-time intelligence.
Anonymous, #antisec and UDID Leak
In September 2012 a group of hackers associated with hacking collective Anonymous and the sub-meme #antisec (also written as AntiSec) published the UDID records of 1,000,000 Apple iPhones and claimed that they possessed 12 million such records. Announcements of the hack claim that the source was a hacked FBI agent; however an independent forensic researcher and BlueToad later claimed that the dumped data came from BlueToad's intranet.[1]
Competitors include
- Apple Newsstand
- Slide HTML5
- NXTbook Media
- Texterity
- Zinio
- PUB HTML5
References
- ↑ "UDID leak Source ID'd: BlueToad mobile firm says it was hacked." "" Retrieved on September 11th, 2012