Yahoo News Digest
App delivers an easy-
to- navigate summary of the top International news stories twice a day
The
International edition of Yahoo News Digest for both iOS and Android users is
now available in India. With this app, users can stay on top of all the
need-to-know International news, twice a day, on their mobile phones.
We
launched the iPhone version in the United States and United Kingdom earlier
this year and received an overwhelming response. 40% of those who downloaded
the app keep coming back to it on a daily basis. Encouraged by the response, we
are now bringing the experience to more people around the world.
Remember
waking up to the local morning news? Coming home to the evening news? Reading a
newspaper from front to back page? These formats have been daily habits since
the invention of the television and the printing press. We wanted Yahoo News
Digest to revisit a content format that when read, led you to a sense of
completion and conclusiveness, much like reading the newspaper did.
With Summly, we learned that people don’t
necessarily have the time to read a lengthy article, especially when they have
limited screen real-estate while they’re on the go. By giving powerful
algorithmic summaries, we found that people were willing to consume more
content when it was boiled down to the most important bits.
Yahoo
News Digest makes your news reading experience simplified, effortless,
comprehensive, and complete. Every morning and night, the app delivers a
summarized version of the top International news, in an easy-to-navigate
design.
We’ve taken summarization to the next
level with News Digest, by algorithmically and editorially selecting the
important articles and using multi-document summarization to identify the key
‘bits and pieces of information’. We’ve named these bits and pieces “Atoms.”
Our Atoms assembled from around the web include articles, maps,
infographics, Wikipedia extracts, videos, photos and more.
The app covers stories from news
categories like - News, Technology, Sports, Business, World etc. Users can scan
the summary, as well as read “atoms,” which conveys different dimensions of the
story from the who, what, when, how, and why of a topic.
The Android version of the Yahoo News Digest was
built specifically with a new homescreen widget that will display the most
recent unread digest for easy viewing. Unlike other homescreen widgets, the
Yahoo News Digest widget keeps track of the digests you’ve read.
Our
International edition is compiled by Yahoo editors in the UK, US, and Malaysia
to offer round-the-clock updates and will deliver a timely Digest everyday at
8am and 6pm local time, wherever you are in the world.
Our
goal with the Yahoo News Digest is to make sure you’re always in the know. We
hope you’ll enjoy it.
Quick Facts on News
Digest
·
Recently, Apple announced that Yahoo
News Digest is a recipient for this year’s Apple
Design Award. To be recognized a second time by Apple, a company that has inspired
millions of developers around the world to understand that simplicity can
create enduring beauty, is something we are incredibly proud of.
·
Since its launch in the US, we
received an overwhelming response, 40% of people who download the app come back
on a daily basis and 50% completed the digest.
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