'Newsroom' is Yahoo's New Application to Compete With Google and Facebook

Oct 10, 2016 04:24 AM EDT | Ribhu .

Yahoo relaunched its iOS and Android applications as Yahoo Newsroom, a news application that permits users to investigate news in more than 200 categories, called Vibes, and in addition to share stories in the application. 

With Yahoo Newsroom, users can read stories from an assortment of sources, for example, BuzzFeed, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and Yahoo itself. These, however, are only a few sources from the numerous sources available on the Yahoo Newsroom application. At the point when a user first downloads the application, they can tweak their experience by selecting the subjects they think about from a rundown of proposed themes, similar to amusement, entertainment, and lifestyle. 

Once a user makes these choices within the application, the application will give them a customized bolster of news to peruse. Likewise, the application's Explore tab permits users to read stories in different Vibes, which they can also take after. There will also be a related news section to read news from similar categories.

As users read stories, they can post likes and comments on the story. Users can like individual comments, and they can likewise answer specifically to different users in the comments area of a story. This enhances the reading experience of the app and increases its connectivity with the users.

Somewhere else, users can share articles they find to Vibes inside the application. At the point when a user shares an article or video, they can also share their contemplations about the subject with others to start a discussion. 

The Yahoo Newsroom app may come in direct competition with the search engine giant Google's Google News app which feeds news stories from different sources and has a wide room for customization from the user's end.

The Yahoo Newsroom application is accessible to download for free on the iTunes App Store and Google Play

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