SmartNews, a Tokyo-headquartered news aggregation website and app that’s grown in popularity despite hefty competition from built-in aggregators like Apple News, today announced it has closed on
In January, personalized news app Flipboard announced it was expanding into local news. From the new “Local” tab in the app, Flipboard users can now keep up with their local news publicati
Earlier this year, personalized news aggregation app Flipboard expanded into local news. The feature brought local news, sports, real estate, weather, transportation news and more to 23 cities across
SmartNews, the news aggregation app that hit a unicorn valuation last year, has spent its time growing its local news feature. With the United States presidential election underscoring both the import
Even before the 2016 election, political polarization was increasing, with Americans so entrenched in the news sources they rely on that the Pew Research Center said “liberals and conservatives inha
Qutoutiao, a news aggregator app backed by Tencent, has filed for an initial public offering of up to $300 million in the United States. In its F-1 form, the company, whose name means “fun headl
After years of sticking with essentially the same design, nobody was going to accuse Google News of looking modern. While the rest of the company's portfolio received major facelifts in recent years,
As large platforms like Facebook and Apple position themselves as the new go-to places to read news, an independent app that started in Japan has landed a new round of funding to raise its own game.
The arrival of Apple’s News app, question marks over the future of Flipboard, and Facebook’s news publishing moves are putting a renewed focus on how we as consumers read news online a
Axel Hansen and Jonah Varon began building <a target="_blank" href="http://newsle.com/">Newsle</a> as undergraduates at Harvard to fill a nagging gap among today's news aggregators. The idea being th