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Morning news roundup for January 8, 2014
Hello! Here's your morning news roundup for January 8, 2014. China, China and China lead the news. Apple has opened an official store on Tmall, China's massive online marketplace. The move comes as Apple looks to increase sales in the ever-important country with 1 billion consumers. Apple will open its 10th retail store in China this week. As if it weren't obvious which country is Apple's new favorite, the company is opening its 10th retail store in China this week. The store will open on January 10 and be located at China Central Mall in Beijing's Chaoyang district. iPhone prices get cut in China. The China Mobile iPhone rollout, set for next week, has the world's largest mobile provider's competitors really freaked out. Both China Telecom and China Unicom have cut prices on some iPhone models by as much as 25 percent. Apple wants the court-appointed antitrust e-books monitor removed. Apple says that the guy appointed to monitor the company's e-books efforts has a bias against the company. Apple wants him out. Yahoo unveils what has become of iOS app Summly. Last year, the company snapped up a 17-year-old's news summarization app Summly for US$30 million. Now Yahoo has revealed the result: Yahoo News Digest, now available for free on the App Store. Google updates YouTube for iOS. Speaking of the App Store... Google has updated its YouTube app with more iOS 7 love, including an iOS 7-style keyboard, a new iOS 7-inspired status bar and blurred sidebar and other non-iOS 7-inspired features like improved search.
Yahoo's Android app catches up with iOS version, gets Summly news boost
Yahoo's new app has arrived on Android, packing a similar features selection to the iOS iteration that launched last week. Alongside better search language algorithms, there's the same Summly magic attempting to whittle longer news articles down to 400 characters or less. The news app will make better use of your smartphone screen too, with more attention being paid to both images and video content. Feast your eyes on Yahoo's refresh by grabbing the app at the Play store -- the link's just below.
Yahoo! updates iPhone app with Summly integration
Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer must really be cracking the whip lately, as the company has been on a roll when it comes to updating its apps or coming out with completely new apps like Yahoo! Weather. Today's news is that the company has updated its namesake iOS news app (free) to version 3.0, adding an exhaustive list of new features. According to a post on the company's blog allegedly written by Meyer, the new Yahoo mobile app uses "Summly's natural-language algorithms and machine learning to deliver quick story summaries." Yahoo acquired Summly less than a month ago, so it's fascinating to see that the app was updated with the new capabilities so quickly. Users of the app can now choose to focus on their favorite type of news, continually tweaking the topics they wish to see or omit. Article summaries are backed by appropriate images, making for a much more attractive browsing and reading experience. Meyer also reports that the web search experience has been updated to underscore the company's focus on mobile content discovery.
