Wall Street Journal and Condé Nast launch iPad apps

Companies continue to branch into the app world a week after iPad 2 was unveiled

Condé Nast has announced iPad launches for Wired UK and British GQ with Vogue UK to receive more special edition iPad issues throughout the year.

This signifies a continuing trend of companies branching into the tablet world by producing content for applications.

In addition, following the success of a free iPhone app that has reached 1.6 million downloads, Condé Nast has also launched an iPad app for its food web site, Epicurious.com.

The app will make over 28,000 recipes available and include graphics to aid users cooking meals.

The app is integrated for both iPad and iPhone, and was developed in-house.

"To be part of such a game-changing technology like the iPad is truly thrilling," said Tanya Wenman Steel, editor in chief of Epicurious.com.

Separately, the Wall Street Journal announced last week that it now has 200,000 tablet subscribers.

The service allows users to get news updates and market data throughout the day as well as save their favourite articles and sections for offline use.

The service is tiered for both paying and non-paying subscribers, where some content will only be available behind a paywall.

The WSJ app has also been released for Android tablets, but these will have fewer features than the iPad.