Other companies have joined the news app space, including Yahoo with its News Digest app, which provides summaries of important stories, and a new app from startup Inside that delivers “up to 1,000 stories each day, in tight 300-character briefs.” Flipboard also “unveiled an upgrade to its digital magazine that organizes Web content even more like the sections in a print publication,” notes Personal Tech Columnist Geoffrey Fowler for The Wall Street Journal. According to one review, Paper helps provide a broad view of the news, while Flipboard is easier to personalize.įacebook recently launched its long-awaited Paper app designed for consuming news stories, photos and video content. Facebook’s new Paper app and the newly updated media-reading app Flipboard are both trying to leverage the effectiveness of a traditional newspaper teamed with the convenient functionality of a smartphone app. The growing flood of news delivered via the Internet has created a dilemma for readers: how to efficiently sift through the never-ending treadmill of information.
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