Armed with a slick, uncluttered design, it focuses on categories including technology, popular culture, memes, but also equality, environmentalism and health. Although based on your standard Facebook friends, it puts more of an emphasis on shared news stories around your favourite topics, rather than baby photos or quizzes. Pitched as "personal news radio", it gets you to choose your favourite (text) news sources, then pulls in stories every day from them, summarising them and using text-to-voice technology to create the equivalent of a personalised news podcast – complete with weather and traffic reports for its US users (although it's also available in the UK).Īndroid / iPhone Paper – Stories from Facebookįor now, Facebook's news app is only available on iPhone in the US, where its success may decide how soon (or even whether) it rolls out to Android and other countries. Newsbeat, which launched this month, is the work of US media company Tribune – or to be specific, its Tribune Digital Ventures division. Inventive news apps aren't just the province of fresh-faced startups.
It's a twice-daily summary of "need-to-know news" drawing on several sources for text, images, charts and background information, but unlike, the summaries here are being created by algorithms. Yahoo paid a rumoured £18m for British teenager Nick D'Aloisio's app startup Summly, then shut it down and recycled its technology for the company's own Yahoo News Digest app, which recently expanded from the US to the UK.
You decide what topics you want to read about, with a simple thumbs-up / thumbs-down system to tune its recommendations according to your preferences. Its app promises more than 1,000 stories a day, summarised (by humans) into 300-character stories, linking to the original sources. This started life as a curated newsletter about technology industry news, set up by entrepreneur Jason Calacanis. Here are 10 of the apps hoping to capitalise on our evolving news habits in 2014 and the years to come: – Breaking News
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