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Economist launches app into Android Market
The Economist officially launches its app for Android phones and tablets today (2 August). The app was released to the Android Market last week and, according to the market, has been downloaded between...
View ArticleOJR: Apps v eBooks – are we missing paid content opportunity?
In an interesting post on the Online Journalism Review website Robert Niles weighs up the opportunities for publishers investing in apps versus eBooks. In his post Niles says he would be surprised to...
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#wef11: Ten lessons on news app creation from Mario Garcia
Today’s session on tablet applications at the World Editors Forum featured a fantastic presentation by Mario Garcia, CEO and founder of Garcia Media, who ran through 10 incredibly useful lessons to...
View Article#wef11 audio: Zeit Online’s Wolfgang Blau on not being ‘locked into an app’
At the World Editors Forum today editor-in-chief of German news site Zeit Online, Wolfgang Blau, discussed the company’s decision to build a html5-optimised site to present the website on the tablet...
View Article#news2011: ‘Content is king, efficient delivery is King Kong’ and ‘experience...
Media consumers today have the options of numerous screens when accessing content, but a session at the Global Editors Network news summit today focused on building a “four-screen strategy: mobile,...
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New Sun app comes top in iTunes paid-for news chart
A new iPhone application from the Sun has become the most downloaded paid-for news app on the iTunes store this week – in its first week on the market. The Sun app is currently sitting at number 10 in...
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#GEN2012 talks newsreader apps –‘Let content be a travelling salesman’
By Drnantu on Flickr. Some rights reserved Social magazines and newsreading apps are a “key part of the puzzle”, if not a game-changer on their own, when it comes to digital strategy for publishers,...
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#mms12: Lessons for consumer publishers from Immediate Media
At today’s Mobile Media Strategies conference, Rebekah Billingsley, mobile publisher, Immediate Media, explained how the publisher, which was formed in November 2011 after a merger of BBC Worldwide...
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Flipboard adds Telegraph and Guardian ahead of royal wedding
Flipboard, a “social magazine” for the iPad that pulls in content from the web, has announced partnerships with the Guardian and the Telegraph. Announcements from the company about the Guardian – “the...
View ArticleMedia release: Telegraph launches new subscription iPad app
The Telegraph today announced the launch of its new iPad app, which offers content from the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph. The app can be purchased through the App Store, either individual,...
View ArticleReuters: Yudu launches service to help publishers evade Apple subscription cut
Reuters reported this week that digital publishing company Yudu has launched a service which means magazine publishers can evade the 30 per cent cut which Apple takes when subscriptions are charged...
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Twitter starts to roll out new site for mobile browsers
Twitter has started to roll out a new version of Twitter.com for mobile devices. Most people who use Twitter on a smartphone opt for one of the official apps or a third-party app such as TweetDeck...
View ArticleBeet.tv: BBC apps received more than 10 million downloads
In this interview with Beet.tv digital director of BBC Worldwide Daniel Heaf talks about how the iPad has “truly become the fourth screen”. He says that session time on the device matches the time...
View ArticleFlurry: Mobile app use overtakes web browsing in US
People in the US are spending more time using apps on smartphones than browsing the internet on a desktop computer or mobile, with the average user spending 81 minutes per day using apps compared with...
View ArticleFive nifty ideas for journalists using SoundCloud
The number of users of SoundCloud has jumped by four million in the past year and the audio recording and sharing platform is increasingly being used by journalists and news organisations, one of its...
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