The Skolkovo Foundation resident, a Russian-American company News360 was awarded yesterday as the best project in M-media and News nomination of a prestigious world contest World Summit Award – Mobile Content (WSA-Mobile).
The WSA slogan “E-Content+ Creativity”. The WSA Mobile selects all over the world most interesting and perspective mobile applications. September last year a prominent international jury has filed a short list of winners among the best mobile apps companies. And yesterday evening in Abu-Dabi (UAE) the finals took place and News360 won in their nomination. Roman Karachinsky, CEO, co-founder and head of the Californian office of the company made a brief speech on the event.
The key partner of the event was The Abu Dhabi Systems & Information Centre (ADSIC). The organizers have set a goal to answer a question: “What is really out there in the mobile world and might still be slumbering inside a few creative minds, but can change our every day life tomorrow?”
News360 is a set of mobile apps for smartphone and tablet platforms. The apps send a tailored stream of news content focused on users’ specific interests. News360 combines diverse sources to provide coverage from diverging perspectives, all with one tap. News360 gets smarter the more it’s used – the app analyses the user’s behavior and adjusts the feed to provide more sophisticated sources from authors not otherwise available. The system is based on a self-learning ontology with a state-of-the-art linguistic analysis engine that tracks more than a million topics, organizations, people and products. News360 apps have been downloaded by about 2 million people worldwide.