Monthly Archives: April 2012

Engineers coming from Amazon and Microsoft have announced a new personalised news streaming service to challenge Facebook’s ‘news feed’ service. Named Wavii, the new service is available via the web or a smartphone app. Working as an automated, algorithm-driven news aggregator, it searches the internet, including news stories tweets and blog entries, and offers the user a customised feed. The software can reportedly process up to 1,000 articles a minute, and can identify rumours and duplicate stories, finally streaming the …
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