Pulse News Reader for iPad praised by Jobs then yanked from App Store

It’s every young developers’ dream: you create an app for the iPad, get glowing feedback in the press, and then Steve Jobs mentions your software while standing on stage during the WWDC 2010 keynote.  Unfortunately for the developers of the Pulse News Reader app which Jobs did indeed namecheck yesterday, the aftermath wasn’t chart-topping sales but a takedown notice from the NY Times and their software being yanked unceremoniously from the App Store.

The Pulse News Reader takes up to twenty news feeds and presents them in a slick, easily read manner, complete with both “as online” views and a ...

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