Germany’s Basti Luebbe is launching its streaming platform, now named oolipo, in the US, UK, and Germany. Oolipo will focus on short-form multimedia content and will soft-launch in April 2016, with a full launch scheduled for next July. “The portal will focus on short-form content in portions ideally suited to mobile reading, especially on smartphones and tablets. This is how oolipo is to reach its target group worldwide.” (While it was a different era, Kobo launched as Shortcovers in 2009, focused on short-from content for mobile reading.) Luebbe ceo Thomas Schirack said in the announcement that the platform’s original name, Beam, […]