Former Yahoo Exec's Tribune Digital Ventures Launches Newsbeat For iOS
March 22, 2014
Tribune Digital Ventures, a relatively new unit of the Tribune Company led by former Yahoo exec Shashi Seth, has just launched its first app: Newsbeat.
Similar to Umano and NewsBrain, Newsbeat is able to read the news to you. It does this sometimes with an actual human's prerecorded voice and sometimes with a robotic yet not entirely unnatural voice like Siri's.
But perhaps a more vaunted feature of Newsbeat is its ability to create a news program of sorts based on the user's preferred topics. "With Newsbeat," Tribune Digital Ventures notes, "you can pick the news that you want to hear - from a large collection of high quality, trusted, local publications as well as national news organizations."
Especially suited to commuters, Newsbeat's key features include:
Optimized for iPhone and iPod touch running iOS 6.1 or later, Newsbeat is available now in the App Store for free. See also: Reverb Now Lets You Collect Articles Using Its Smart Recommendation Engine, NewsBlur 4.0 Features New Dashboard, Gestures And Sharing Controls, and Facebook's Paper Gains New Sharing Options And Other Improvements. [gallery link="file" order="DESC"]
- Pick the topics of your interest and the news sections of your choice
- Play the stories you like, skip those that you don’t
- Weather and traffic narrated every 10 minutes
- News from your local publications and national newspapers
- Our streaming technology provides smooth, uninterrupted news while you drive
- Explore various sources and voices for your stories, and go in-depth to related articles
- Receive daily email news digest
- Get latest breaking news