1. Marco Arment was born on June 11,1982 and is an American iOS developer, web developer, podcaster, restaurateur, technology writer and former magazine editor.
12 Facts About Marco Arment
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Marco Arment attended Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania and graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science.
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Marco Arment announced on April 25,2013, that he had sold the controlling interest in Instapaper to Betaworks.
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In October 2012, Marco Arment released The Magazine, an electronic, biweekly publication.
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In May 2013, one month after the sale of Instapaper, Marco Arment announced he was selling The Magazine to Glenn Fleishman, its editor.
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In July 2013, Marco Arment released Bugshot, an application to quickly mark up screenshots so that beta testers of Overcast could easily send him bug reports.
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Marco Arment sold Bugshot to Lickability and the app was renamed to Pinpoint.
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On September 16,2015, Marco Arment released Peace, a Safari content blocker for iOS 9 using the Ghostery database.
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Between November 2010 and December 2012, Marco Arment hosted a podcast, Build and Analyze, with Dan Benjamin on 5by5 Studios.
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In July 2014, Marco Arment released Overcast, a podcast application for iOS.
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Marco Arment had been working on the application since fall 2012, and publicly announced it at the XOXO festival in September 2013.
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On January 4,2015, Arment posted an article to Marco.