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"Yahoo has launched its News Digest app for Android devices and made the iOS version of the service available for all users worldwide. The app gives users news round-ups twice a day, and was initially only available to iOS device owners\u00A0based in\u00A0the US or the\u00A0UK.\r\n\r\nThe service was first launched earlier this year and is based on Summly, the startup started by\u00A0British teenager Nick D\u2019Aloisio which Yahoo acquired last year. The service is available via four different\u00A0editions: the existing US and UK versions of the app, which are\u00A0now available on Android, and new editions\u00A0for Canada and the rest of the world, both of which are available on\u00A0iOS and Android.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn a post on the Yahoo blog,\u00A0D\u2019Aloisio says that 40 percent of users who downloaded the app in the US and UK use it every day, and that was the spark for widening its availability. He doesn't reveal how many downloads it saw in the two countries, however.\r\n\r\nYahoo has tapped into the specifics of Android to develop a homescreen widget for the app that it says displays recent unread content to users. The widget also tracks digests that have been\u00A0read, and provides a countdown that shows when the next bulletin will be ready.\r\n\r\nHeadline image via\u00A0Robyn Beck\u00A0/ AFP / Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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