Facebook release updated feed app for mobile users choosing categories movies music sport news

Facebook release updated feed app for mobile users choosing categories movies music sport news. That gathers news and entertainment stories into one regularly updated feed.

The Facebook released an app for mobiles called Notify that gathers news and entertainment stories into one regularly updated feed.

Facebook release updated feed app for mobile users choosing categories movies music sport news.

Facebook release updated feed app for mobile users choosing categories movies music sport news.

CNN, Fox News and the Washington Post are among the 70 organizations providing stories to the app.

Anyone who installs the app chooses their own mix of sources that will post notifications to their feed.

It competes directly with Twitter’s Moments and Apple’s News service, which create feeds of breaking stories.

The feed of stories could be customized choosing from several different categories.

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The Notify service is available only to iPhone-owning Facebook members in the United States.

Facebook not said when or if the service will extended to other parts of the world or other operating systems.

Notifications about new articles appear on the lock screen of an iPhone and can shared from that display.

Analyst company Media Research, said the move made sense because Facebook had become the “jumping off point into our digital lives”.

“The better a job it can do of this, the better it locks users in,” he said. “It has seen standout success with spinning out Messenger and recognizes.

The more touchpoints it can develop with its users, the more it can create greater loyalty.”

Notify comes soon after Facebook unveiled its Instant Articles Service in May.

This sought to speed up the delivery of off-site content by hosting it in its own data centers.

Articles from Buzz Feed, National Geographic, the New York Times and six other media organizations featured on the service.

Facebook release updated feed app for mobile users choosing categories movies music sport news.

Instant Articles is initially available only on iPhones but tests of an Android version have begun.

A similar, rival service called the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) initiative was launched by Google and many other web firms in October.

AMP stored slimmed down copies of stories from dozens of news organizations to enable them to load faster on portable devices.