Business Day to launch free iPad app

14 Jun 2011

Just a week after online news website Daily Maverick announced its intention to launch an iPad newspaper, iMaverick, South African daily Business Day has unveiled plans to launch an iPad edition of the paper. The application, available from next month, will be free to download and free to use - at least for now.

William Smith, product manager at BDFM, the company that publishes Business Day, says the digital product strategy is to "keep our digital platforms in line. If the website has a pay wall the corresponding apps will. At this stage www.businessday.co.za doesn't have paywall in place, so the app won't either."

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