DOHA, Qatar & PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Al Jazeera, the 24-hour news and current affairs channel, and Pulse, the award-winning visual news reader available for iPad, iPhone, Android phones and tablets, and the Web – today announced a content partnership that brings Al Jazeera’s world-class reporting to Pulse’s more than 5 million users. The content will come from Al Jazeera English and includes Al Jazeera Front Page, Opinion, Features and more. The new sources will be available for Pulse users beginning today.
“It’s important to offer our users a global perspective,” said Akshay Kothari, CEO and co-founder of Pulse. “The addition of Al Jazeera and its world-class international reporting helps ensure that we are providing the most comprehensive experience for our millions of users around the world.”
Al Jazeera English has continued to grow exponentially since its launch in 2006 and now broadcasts to more than 250 million households on six continents in more than 130 countries. The Network boasts more than 70 bureaux across the world, giving it the reach to report from often underreported regions.
“Pulse is a perfect partner to extend our digital reach, making it easy for people to find and consume our content,” said Moeed Ahmad, New Media Department Manager at Al Jazeera. “We have readers from all over the world and now we are giving them even more access to the latest breaking news from across the world in a way that is fast and convenient.”
As part of the Al Jazeera partnership, Pulse will feature the following new sources:
- Al Jazeera Front Page
- Al Jazeera Video (featuring in-app video for every story)
- Al Jazeera global news, including Al Jazeera Americas, Asia-Pacific, Central and South Asia, Europe, and Middle East
- Al Jazeera In Depth, Opinion, Briefings, Features, and Spotlight
- Al Jazeera Business
- Al Jazeera Sports
Pulse recently surpassed 5 million users across all platforms, and was honored with an Apple Design Award, which recognizes excellence in iPhone, iPad and Mac app design. In June of this year, Pulse debuted Pulse.me, which allows users to save stories for later reading in their personal archives, viewable on any Pulse-enabled device or the Web.
Pulse has more than 150 content partnerships with some of the most recognizable names in media, including AOL, The Atlantic, CNET, CNN, ESPN, Discover Magazine, Gawker, GOOD, Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, The Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times Magazine, NBC News via msnbc.com, National Journal, The New Yorker, Salon.com, TIME, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, Yahoo! News and more. In addition, the app offers a variety of content discovery features, including an ever-growing featured content section, categorical browsing, searchable news sources, and integration with Google Reader to connect users to the freshest, most relevant news and information.
About Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera was established in November 1996 as the first independent Arabic news channel in the world dedicated to providing comprehensive television news and live debate.
With the creation of new channels and services, Al Jazeera established itself as an international media corporation and in March 2006 was formally named the Al Jazeera Network. The Al Jazeera Network now consists of the flagship Al Jazeera Satellite (Arabic) channel, Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera Documentary, Al Jazeera Sport, AlJazeera.net (the English and Arabic web sites), the Al Jazeera Media Training and Development Center, Al Jazeera Center for Studies, Al Jazeera Mubasher (Live), and Al Jazeera Mobile.
About Pulse
Pulse is an award-winning application that makes it easy to consume news on mobile phones and tablets. Pulse users can choose up to 60 news sources in an easy to read, customizable interface on the iPhone, iPad, and Android phones and tablets. Pulse has been named to the Apple’s App Store Hall of Fame, chosen as an Android Editor’s Choice app, selected as one of TIME’s top 50 iPhone apps of 2011, and honored with the Apple Design Award. Pulse also has more than 150 content partnerships with some of the most recognizable names in media. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For more information, please visit Pulse.me or follow us on Twitter @Pulsepad.
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