BNO News Pulls Plug on iPhone App
BNO News is taking the unusual step of shutting down its iPhone app, as the company announced that it is shifting its focus toward business-to-business services and away from providing breaking news to consumers.
The iPad app launched in August 2009, and BNO News also managed the @BreakingNews Twitter account through December 2009, collecting more than 1.5 million followers, but the company transferred the Twitter feed to msnbc.com.
BNO News founder and president Michael van Poppel said:
In 2009, we decided to shift our focus and eventually offer our services solely to media organizations and other companies that want to make use of a news service.
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