Much has been made of the opportunity presented by Apple's iPad to big media companies. Surprisingly, it is a $3.99 application created by two Stanford graduate students that is now the top-paid application in the entire iPad section of the App Store. The application, Pulse News Reader, was developed by Akshay Kothari (23) and Ankit Gupta (22), a pair of Indian-born graduate students at Stanford University's Institute of Design.
The two developed the service in the Launch Pad class, which asks budding entrepreneurs to develop and introduce a product in just 10 weeks. Mr Kothari said the project was inspired by "a personal frustration at the whole news reading experience" on mobile devices. Pulse is a stylish and easy-to-use news
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