The company released News Pro, a new iOS app that uses Bing News to deliver personalized feeds of news based on your profession.
At a basic level, News Pro is similar to Flipboard, Apple News and other news apps that use algorithms to recommend stories based on your interests.
But News Pro puts a slight twist on this by using your job title to make its suggestions. The first time you launch the app, you have the option of connecting it with either your Facebook and LinkedIn account and once connected the app surfaces relevant stories in the app’s main feed.
The app is still relatively bare bones and doesn’t offer many features other than some additional personalization features (more on those in a minute). But one feature that is particularly useful is the “speedy” option, which is similar to the “Reader View” in Safari. Once you click into a story, you can choose “Speedy” to get a version of the article that strips out ads and other elements that slow down websites so articles can load quickly and in an easy to read format.
News Pro is powered by Bing News, so there’s no shortage of topics to follow, though the app surfaces stories based on your profession, which can skew the types of stories you see. While I can understand why a person’s profession could be a good indicator of the types of news they may want to read, News Pro’s suggestions didn’t make much sense in my testing.
By: http://pctechmag.com/
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