NEW YORK, Dec. 22, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Barron's, America's premier financial magazine, announced today the new Barron's Tablet Edition for iPad is available from the App Store. The new app combines Barron's weekly magazine content with Barrons.com market analysis and commentary, which is updated throughout each trading day. Subscribers can also search for quotes, personalize stock watch lists, save articles for offline reading or watch full-screen videos.
"The Barron's Tablet Edition for iPad showcases our trusted market insights and analysis in a platform for our subscribers to access the best of print and online anytime, anywhere," said Ed Finn, editor and president of Barron's. "Users will have all of the convenience of tablet delivery, as well as updated daily content, through an interface that preserves the Barron's magazine experience."
The Barron's Tablet Edition for iPad includes full article content from the weekly magazine, delivered directly to the app each Saturday morning as well as online daily columns and exclusives, such as Up & Down Wall Street Daily and Barron's Take. Users also have access to an archive of previous issues of Barron's.
Launch sponsors for Barron's Tablet Edition for iPad include Putnam and Fidelity.
Barron's Tablet Edition for iPad is free to download from the App Store (), with a subscription required for access to all content. A full Barron's digital subscription is available for $2.99 per week, which provides access to Barrons.com and the Barron's Tablet Edition. Current Barron's subscribers receive full access to the Barron's Tablet Edition for a limited time.
About Barron's
Barron's () is America's premier financial magazine, renowned for its market-moving stories. Published by Dow Jones & Company since 1921, it reaches an influential audience of senior corporate decision makers, institutional investors, individual investors and financial professionals. With new content available every week in print and every business day online, Barron's provides readers with a comprehensive review of the market's recent activity, coupled with in-depth, sophisticated reports on what's likely to happen in the market in the days and weeks to come. As a result, Barron's is the financial information source these powerful people rely on for market information, ideas and insights they can use to increase their professional success and enhance their personal, financial well-being.
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