Popular 'Read It Later' Service Instapaper Has Been Acquired

Instapaper, the popular "read it later" web and mobile app, has been acquired by Betaworks.

In a blog post, Marco Arment, the app's creator, writes:

I’m happy to announce that I’ve sold a majority stake in Instapaper to Betaworks. We’ve structured the deal with Instapaper’s health and longevity as the top priority, with incentives to keep it going well into the future. I will continue advising the project indefinitely, while Betaworks will take over its operations, expand its staff, and develop it further.

Arment explains in his post that he figured out a couple of months ago who should acquire his app and shot off an email late at night. Both Arment and Betaworks mutually agreed that the acquisition was a good fit.

Betaworks is an incubator that starts companies and aims to make them bigger. It's the same company that acquired Digg last year.