Currents (as of this morning, our Latest News app is the leading subscribed to edition).
If you prefer listening to reading, Winston may be the ideal news app for you.
Compared with the promiscuous clutter of the open Web--where Google lives, for the most part--the news app is a highly curated experience.
The move comes months after Microsoft agreed to pay the BBC a fee to use some of its online news stories within its Windows 8 desktop Bing Daily news app.
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Yahoo on Wednesday launched a new personalized news app called Livestand and other new products, as the Internet company seeks to keep innovating while it faces corporate uncertainty.
But The Daily is not the top-rated news app.
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The news app will initially be available free of charge on Samsung Smart TVs through their apps store and later it will be accessible on a variety of connected devices and displays, including an international version.
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As for the trend toward organizing content by both topics and the stuff your friends enjoy, you only need to look as far last year's hit news app: Flipboard, which turns the news into a more visual experience on your iPad, personalizing your experience by highlighting links shared by your online connections and topics you find interesting.
The news TV app combines existing on-demand video and text content from BBC News online and brings it to connected living-room TV screens.
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Last month, Yahoo acquired a news summarisation app, Summly, for "dozens of millions" of pounds.
The Livestand news reader app is launching with a number of publications and outlets.
This will be wonderful, seismic news for app developers who are struggling to build applications for the Symbian platform.
But Flipboard, a news aggregation app for iPad that is listed among Facebook's first partners, decided not to adopt that particular feature because, according to a spokeswoman, users probably wouldn't want to share so much information.
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That would be welcome news to music app developer doubleTwist Corp.
But as was revealed in the 2011 survey, app news users-and those who use both apps and the browser equally-remain in many ways more engaged and deeper news users than those who mostly use their browser.
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The most interesting part of the announcement is the news that the app will be free to begin with, with subscription pricing only kicking in after the Times introduces a pay model for its website, sometime in the first quarter of 2011.
These included games such as Scrabble and "Touch Hockey, " a database app, news services and more.
Seventeen-year-old Nick D'Aloisio's Summly app summarises news stories from popular media companies.
The app aggregates news feeds from multiple UN agencies and programs and delivers news in one integrated, real-time stream.
Facebook's head of communications in the UK, Sophy Silver, told BBC News that the new app would integrate reporting into both Facebook and Ceop's systems.
Launched in November, the Summly app summarizes news stories down to a few hundreds words so they can be easily displayed and read on mobile devices.
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News of the veep app came about one month after the Obama campaign launched its own novel digital tool: an online national organizing site called Dashboard.
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These print subscribers also prefer their app-based news to be more like a traditional reading experience rather than to have high-tech features.
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According to the New York Times, the App makes the Facebook News Feed appear on screen when the user turns on her phone.
He redesigned the app to automatically boil news articles down to 400-word summaries and re-launched it as Summly in late 2012 with help from SRI.
Nike ( NKE - news - people ) workout app tracks a runner's course and computes the distance they've traveled using a shoe sensor.
And whereas the Post will sell subscriptions directly to readers as an in-app purchase, the News, having no preexisting digital sales apparatus, is forced to let Apple handle the transaction, and take its usual 30 percent cut.
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The blog ReadWriteWeb dubbed the feature a "stalking app, " and news of Find Friends Nearby received a cold reception on the Internet, where Twitter users and bloggers panned the idea -- saying Twitter-y things like " Hell to the naw, " " Oh lawd!"
Bloomberg News recently debuted their own live streaming app that comes with additional content.
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