Ok, I'll bite. My constructive criticism is that based upon what I have seen here, you don't have the coding horsepower on your team to develop a competitive product. Either take some more classes or hire some better people.
Look at Bing News. That's the direction newsreaders are going. Yours looks distinctly 1998.
If I were you and I wanted to develop, I would stick with a simple utility or a game. Newsreaders are where the big boys play and you simply don't have the resources to compete.
So your great advice is "give up and to try something else". Thanks, thanks a lot.