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New News Aggregator Apps

By Logan Kugler
Communications of the ACM, September 2015, Vol. 58 No. 9, Pages 17-19
10.1145/2800445
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Inkl CEO Gautam Mishra describes his company's news app as the "Spotify of news."

Credit: Wayne Taylor / Fairfax Media

News aggregators are services that pull together online content in one place for ease of viewing on mobile devices. Until recently, the market for news aggregator apps has been dominated by Google, with its Google News & Weather (http://bit.ly/1za0Ycd) for personalized news and weather content, and Google Play Newsstand (http://bit.ly/1IFTeav) for personalized curated content and topic-based collections of articles. Yahoo News Digest (https://mobile.yahoo.com/newsdigest/) has also been popular, as has Apple Newstand (http://apple.co/1TM43uC), which is being revamped into Apple News.

Other notable players include:

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