Tablet Reading Apps Zite, Pulse Strike Publisher Deals

More tablet experimentation from publishers, this time via reading apps Pulse and Zite. Zite, which already offered readers excerpts from Bonnier's Popular Science magazine, will now be doing that with 20 other Bonnier titles. And Pulse will be bring content from 8 publishers, including Venture Beat, CNN and AOL's Huffington Post to its apps. Continue reading at 'AllThingsD'

[ AllThingsD | 2012-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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