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Earlier this year, Marissa Mayer launched the Yahoo News Digest iPhone app at CES, along with Nick D'Aloisio, the founder of a news summarisation company called Summly which Yahoo bought last year for a reported $30 million. The news digest, which was launched in the US first, is an interesting app which updates its content only twice a day, with just seven stories at a time. The stories are selected by a team of human editors, but they're put together by a computer algorithm, which takes inputs from multiple news sources to turn any news article into a two paragraph story that's easy to read, along with pictures, videos, stock information and Wikipedia summaries, where relevant.

On Thursday night, D'Aloisio announced the worldwide availability of the app, as well as launch of theAndroid version of the app, along with a new localised version for Canada, to go along with the existing US and UK versions.