Yahoo News Digest
Yahoo News Digest is currently available in the United States and the United Kingdom. It provides the need-to-know news gathered from various sources for text, images, and info created by algorithms.
News360
What's good with this app is its ability to pull news that you like. It is designed to understand the user's interest, thus pulling and adding other regular news from a wide array of mainstream news and other niche-oriented sources that might interest you. Videos and images are also included in the selection.
Inside.com - Breaking News
This app provides people a 300-character, summary-type news which is linked to the source. Its user-friendly thumbs up and thumbs down system fine-tunes the app to focus on one's preference, thus providing the user what they want.
Paper - Stories from Facebook
This particular app is constantly evolving in short periods of time. As of this moment, the Facebook news app can be availed in the US on iPhone but may soon be available for Android and other users worldwide. It gathers shared news stories, emphasizing topics that you like rather than random posts. Most of its stories are taken from assorted categories such as technology, health, culture, and more.
Feedly Reader
This is a sophisticated and easy-to-use RSS reader designed with quick sharing features and the ability to add articles with a "read-it-later" service like Pocket and Instapaper. Feedly reader has one of the most effective search options. It also makes constant improvements and updates on the system depending on users' engagement.
Newsbeat
Newsbeat is developed by the US media company Tribune. It allows users to select their favorite news sources. After that, stories are pulled daily from these sources, summarized, and used t,o create a personalized news podcast using text-to-voice technology. Weather and traffic reports are also included for the US market only.
Circa News
Behind this app is a team of smart editors carefully and meticulously selecting relevant information and setting aside what they consider "junk" or irrelevant facts. One of the greatest features of this app is the ability to "follow" certain stories. Users will get a notification every time a story is added to its summary. Another great feature is for readers to read offline, so you can still scan for updates even when a WI-FI connection is unavailable.
Flipboard is one of the most established news apps. And with its recent acquisition, Zite, which was previously owned by CNN, made it even more powerful. This was created to make Flipboard a personal magazine to any mobile user. In addition to that, Flipboard has added another feature that allows users to browse updates in their social channels, as well as RSS feeds. This app works well with traditional news providers and then reformats articles.
Interesting for iPhone
This app pulls thousands of articles from the list of best hand-curated content sources on the internet. It enables users to browse their favorite topics from news to technology, politics, sports, designs, entertainment, and even more. It has the ability to compile stories and sort them out according to categories such as sports, technology, and politics. What is more interesting with this app is the integration of Reddit, a great source for news updates to a growing number of people. It is also integrated with Dribble, a good site for designers.
Newsy: Video News
This app compiles news and then turns it into video news. This looks like a good candidate for Google, YouTube, Facebook, and the other major industry player on the internet. But for now, this app is doing great and has its own place on the internet.
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