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Yahoo launches UK edition of its News Digest iOS app
With MWC in full swing, CES seems but a distant memory. It was at last month's trade show that Yahoo debuted its News Digest app for iOS, which serves up twice-daily dumps of important news bites. It launched with a US audience in mind, but as of yesterday, Brits can now download their very own UK edition of News Digest. In principle, it delivers exactly the same kind of curated content -- quick-to-read news nuggets that summarize the takeaway using various types of media -- just with a greater focus on UK-centric stories and, we assume, with everything spelt correctly.
Yahoo News Digest to offer bite-sized news for busy people
Yahoo has just announced Yahoo News Digest, an app that summarizes all the biggest news of the day into short easily consumable chunks. Summly's Nick D'Aloisio is heading up the venture, and he came on stage to describe how the app works. A large cover image greets you on the splash screen while a cluster of headlines lie underneath. The app is designed to summarize news twice a day from multiple sources, and the news chunks have contextual information like maps and tweets baked right in. Infographics, stock tickets, scoreboards are part of the app, and it'll prompt you when you're done reading.
