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Yahoo! joins digital newsstand market with Livestand
By siliconindia
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Friday, 11 February 2011, 19:43 IST
New York: The latest to join the digital newsstand bandwagon is Yahoo!. The company forays into the digital publishing business with its service called Livestand for tablet PCs and smartphones. The content for the platform will be pooled in from Yahoo!'s online publications and sites and from external publishers.
The application will at first be available in iPad and tablets running on Android platform during the first half of the year. Expect the smartphone version later in the year. With Livestand, Yahoo! will be in direct competition with News Corp's The Daily that has been launched in collaboration with Apple as an iPad only newspaper.
Yahoo! has designed Livestand exclusively for portable devices and hence the content will be optimized to fit in the screens and UIs of these devices. Users can customize their news from the various feeds that the company will offer. The source for the content will be drawn from Yahoo!'s sports, finance and celebrity gossip news. Publishers will get revenue from two channels: advertising and subscriptions.
