![]() The app also allows readers to submit their favorite stories, which means Digital Trends content can trend within this ecosystem if you and your friends make a few swipes to the right. Once a story enters the app, it continues to live there as long as readers keep liking it. That way, Lumi gives media companies the all-important traffic. Gated or walled news outlets such as Variety or The Wall Street Journal aren’t available through the app, since it connects directly to the source. The app looks at over 40,000 different outlets, ranging from the big online publishers to niche blogs. The Top 100,000 articles are curated on a daily basis. ![]() Miller said the app uses crowd sourcing by collecting data from all of its users’ Twitter feeds and looks at 200 million articles every day. And Lumi’s co-founders were among the founders of music curation company, Last.fm, which CBS purchased for $289 million back in 2007. Three of the London-based company’s 10 employees are data scientists. Lumi has that magic down to a science, literally. “Once you install Lumi News it figures out ‘by magic’ what you want and it gives you content you’re interested in.” Data science cuts down on the noise “The tech space has been looking for a better discovery and navigation device,” Felix Miller, co-founder of Lumi told Digital Trends. Much like trying to make sense out of your non-stop Twitter feed with information overload, the entire goal of Lumi News (the name is a play on shedding light on news) is to simplify everything to the point that your Mom can sit down and instantly start reading. Martin Stiksel, co-founder of Lumi, told Digital Trends an early version of the app did take the multiple headlines route, but it quickly became evident that it simply created more clutter. Rather than giving you headlines and a paragraph of multiple stories to read, the app gives you the entire story – one at a time. ![]() to automate your life and save you timeįacebook wants to ‘strengthen democracy’ with a news tab. Sunbird looks like the iMessage for Android app you’ve been waiting for
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