The Livestand news reader app is launching with a number of publications and outlets.
Working in tandem, news reader apps and social networks have enormous potential to spread content quickly, feeding publisher growth.
In a blogpost, the company revealed that the sharing features on its RSS news reader would soon be removed.
Moreover, Summly is not the only mobile news reader out there.
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Recently over a scandal in the British cabinet, BBC news reader Jonathan asked the Home Secretary: 'Did you threaten to sack him (a junior minister)?
There are tons of apps that grow rapidly on Facebook, as well as others that provide standalone value for their users (like the Washington Post news reader).
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The app had an average rating of 3.5 stars better than news reader apps from The New York Times, New York Post and New York Daily News, and similar to those from CNN and USA Today.
"The whole city is a mess, people are calling each other, the operators can't cope with such a huge number of calls at a time, " said Olga, a BBC News website reader in Moscow.
Called "Mosaic, " the app offers a visually stunning, multi-touch screen designed to enable consumers to personalize and read all of their news via one reader and offer advertisers an innovative digital advertising model to target audiences.
Gone is the physical distance that reduces the tension surrounding nasty attacks in other online forums, for instance in multiplayer games, chat rooms, or in the reader comments sections below news articles or blog posts.
Reader apps are taking over news consumption thanks to a new cadre of consumer and b2b platforms.
But, the reader cannot help asking, was news of this impending massacre the worst in Europe since 1945 really not available to America's two most powerful figures beforehand?
Without a viable RSS reader, I would dramatically reduce the sources of news I consult, probably by 90% or more.
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This is where they come in. theSkimm covers the most critical news and digests it in a form comprehensible to the average reader.
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The irony of a former News Corp company having privacy issues may not be lost on the reader.
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Google also features a line-up of cloud applications that make it a virtual one stop shop, and greatly enhances its brand, including Gmail, Google News, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Google Chrome browser, Google reader, Froogle and the neat Google Earth.
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That number looks to grow with news that libraries may start to lend books out on the e-reader.
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So, a resilient design would allow for any of those individual modules to fail gracefully without blocking the reader from completing the primary action on the site reading news.
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In Germany, Heise Online, an online news site, last year faced a temporary restraining order preventing it from publishing reader comments that call on others to overload a company's server by massively downloading a program.
Shirky argues that news organizations are going to have to learn to live with dramatically lower revenue per reader.
In addition to this news, Intuit will soon begin shipping a free, newly-designed GoPayment Card Reader in both the U.S and Canada.
Now understand, dear reader, (to paraphrase Day To Day's Alex Chadwick) all news organizations are story-eating monsters.
Apple ( AAPL - news - people ) iPhone application, called Books.app, which is an e-reader.
Throughout these readable paragraphs, there are opportunities to provide links to landing pages, connect the reader to past blogs or newsletters, refer them to other web site pages or bring news of the area to them.
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Apple's iPhone is the first reader-friendly mobile phone, and the latest update to its software, due shortly, will enable news providers that currently give away content on the iPhone to start charging for it.
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