25 February 2014
Euronews joins Google’s free application for smartphones and tablets, available on Android as “Google Play Newsstand” and on iOS as “Google Currents”.
Euronews, the European news leader, is now a partner of the Google App that brings together magazines and other news sources in one must-have reading app.
Both Apps, Google Play Newsstand or Google Currents, help people to create their personalized magazine by aggregating information from selected news sites, magazines, blogs and others news sources in one single place.
Euronews provides users with six content verticals to choose from: “News”, “Europe”, “Business”, “Culture”, “No Comment” and “Sci-Tech” in text, images and videos. Euronews for Google Play Newsstand/Currents Apps is available in six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
The Google Apps are free on the AppStore for iPhone/iPad and on Google Play for Android smartphones and tablets.
Furthermore, Newsstand is pre-installed on all new Android devices.
With 1 billion devices and 1.5 million daily activations on Android, Newsstand represents a one-stop shop for users to discover and consume Euronews’ content.
“Being a partner of Google on such a platform allows Euronews to increase its audience reach and engagement in an unprecedented manner and to remain at the forefront of new content consumption trends.” said Walid Chamak, Head of Digital Partnerships at Euronews.
Content syndication fits into Euronews strategy to be a global multimedia News organization.
As underlined at the MIPCOM conference in October: Euronews places innovation at the heart of its strategy which aims to transform the company into a global media group offering “the right content, in the right place, at the right time.”
The company is a pioneer in adapting content to new trends in digital news consumption. By launching some of the most innovative projects and products all over the world, Euronews aims to increase its audience and brand awareness.
(Source: Euronews press release)
26 October 2010
The AIB’s climate change portal captures stories and blog posts from over 100 sources of news on Climate Change. Using technology from UltraKnowledge (UKn), the content of each item is automatically tagged and the portal allows you to search by any term and then it brings up related terms. Inthis way you can deepen your research or find unexpected connections and head off down new tracks.
I have just been making a virtual journey through the database of articles. To start with, I wanted to find out more about Prop 23, the proposed legislation in California which pitches “Big Oil” against “Big Green”, with companies that make their living from traditional energy sources ranged against those who are investing heavily in new energy technologies.
A search for “Prop 23” on the Climate Portal led me to a video in which Joel Francis, a college student, challenged the billionaire Charles Koch, head of Koch Industries, to a debate about support for Prop 23. One of the tags on this story was Larry Page (since his wife is supporting the “No to Prop 23” campaign) so I clicked on it to see what he and Google were up to in this area (since Google long ago planned to be carbon neutral).
The latest story from Google is that of the robotic cars that seem to have been driving around in the US, with a human driver who can intervene if necessary but who rarely has to. Two interesting results of having robotic cars would be to improve fuel usage (since they would accelerate and brake smoothly) and to allow cars to drive closer together so requiring fewer roads for the same amount of traffic (or fewer new roads if traffic increased).
That led me to an article on car sharing which described it as the “gateway drug” for the sharing movement since research shows that once someone shares a car they are more open to sharing other physical goods. From there it was a move to an article about how the web is helping people share their goods.
I had moved some way from the initial article and its debate on energy pollution, but somehow ending up with an article on innovative web services made me feel that I had come back full circle – geographically at least – to California.
