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With the demise of the Star Touch iPad app experiment, parent company Torstar has announced it is already saving money in the restructuring. The last issue published within Star Touch was last week on August 1st. During its recent earnings call, Torstar announced it had already saved $1.2 million in their most recent quarter, and...

After launching in the fall of 2015, the Toronto Star Touch tablet app was hailed as the next digital publication success, based on the same model as Quebec’s La Presse+. But now the experiment is officially over, as yesterday, parent company Torstar announced Star Touch will end as of August 1, 2017. John Boynton, president...

Despite failing to gain attention from its users, the Star Touch tablet app is receiving millions of dollars in funding from the company that owns the Toronto Star. In a statement, Torstar Corp.'s acting president and publisher David Holland told analysts that "We [the company] remains committed to the initiative." The app is growing at a...

On Tuesday, the Toronto Star announced that it will cut over 50 jobs across their corporation, with 45 job cuts occurring in the Toronto Star newsroom. The newsroom layoffs affect 26 temporary staff, most of whom work on the Star’s tablet app Toronto Star Touch, and 19 permanent full-time employees. In a memo, Toronto Star...

Jon Filson, the head of Star Touch, the Toronto Star's iPad app, is no longer a Star employee, reports the Financial Post. “I can confirm he has left the Toronto Star,” said spokesperson Bob Hepburn in an e-mail to the Financial Post. No reason was given for his departure. During his 16 years at the...

Torstar, the parent company of the Toronto Star, announced fourth quarter earnings from 2015 this morning, and also commented on the status of its iPad daily newspaper, Star Touch. David Holland, President and Chief Executive Officer, was disappointed with current results of Star Touch for iPad, noting $14 million had been invested so far, excluding...

The Star Touch iPad app has been updated to version 2.0, which comes with a “major redesign”, said to enhance navigation of the news app on older Apple tablets (iPad 2/3/4; iPad mini and iPad mini 2), to make graphics and transitions load quicker. What's New in Version 2.0.0 Major redesign of the application to...

The Toronto Star’s iPad daily newspaper, Star Touch, surpassed 100,000 downloads back in late December. In an interview with The Globe and Mail, John Cruickshank, the Star’s publisher, said the app is now “closing in on 200,000 downloads very quickly.” However, not all is good with the news publication, as it has announced its printing plant in...