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“Apollo News” modestly calls itself “the newspaper of the future.” It’s the creation of Hawthorne Labs, a company of former engineers from Google News and Microsoft Bing. It figures out your likes and dislikes, based on your ratings, and creates a personalized newspaper on the iPad. To learn about it, Google “Apollo for iPad.” “Maverick,” launching in October, is an iPad-only magazine for business, technology and travel news. Holly Branson, the daughter of Richard Branson, billionaire founder of Virgin Airlines, is in charge. There’s already been big interest from advertisers. (Read more at AdAge.com.) You can get free Marvel Comics comic books on your iPad or iPhone. Four comic books were free and the rest were $2 each. (This is […]

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