Leading Pan-Arab Daily Asharq Al-Awsat Upgrades iPhone App to NewsPad Platform from KnowledgeView

LONDON, June 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

Asharq Al-Awsat is the flagship of Saudi Research and Publishing Group and leading pan-Arab daily newspaper published from London and Riyadh with various editions for Europe and the Arab World.

As part of its modernization program Asharq Al-Awast decided to upgrade its apps to KnowledgeView's NewsPad technology with unique news social features and LiveBridge for print-mobile interactivity.

Asahrq Al-Awasat new iPhone app has some unique features worked out jointly by KnowledgeView's and AAA product design teams such as innovative gallery views, debate section, LiveBridge, PDF views and others.

With the NewsPad platform the new app has also some powerful consumer centric features such as:

• Users' uploads of news
• Following authors and topics
• News by location
• Attractive news navigation and display with AAA unique own font types

Ali Al Assam, CEO, KnowledgeView, said: "Asharq AL-Awsat NewsPad app offers a unique experience to their readers by delivering their content in a customized way in real-time. The app has a big potential to expand their audience and the level of engagements with them."

You can download the app here: http://tiny.cc/brd0hx

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