BlueToad, Inc.

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

External links

• BlueToad, Inc.