News is an Android app developed by Baqa Creatives (2308-2211 Sherobee Road Mississauga, ON L5A 2H5 Canada). Others apps created by Baqa Creatives are: eQuran Lite.

News first became available on 18 Dec 2011. It is estimated that News has been downloaded between 500000 and 1000000 times from the Play Store.

News 2.6.0 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.