New funding: Factal, the Seattle startup which monitors breaking news to help companies assess risks to their business, has raised $3.3 million in a Series A funding round. The company:… Read More
Factal, which provides incident and news alerts for corporate users, announced Tuesday that it’s started round-the-clock global coverage after more than a year of testing with large corporations. The Seattle-based… Read More
When NBC News shut down its popular Breaking News website and app in late 2016, the team heard not just from general news consumers but also from disappointed users at big… Read More
Breaking News, the 24-hour-a-day online news site, is being shut down by NBC News, five years after the network acquired the small journalism startup. The news was shared in a series of… Read More
There are few things more sad to the iPhone faithful on launch day than a connected, yet unfulfilled, Apple Watch (beyond the 20 or so apps Apple includes). Fear not. At… Read More
With its new Apple Watch app, Breaking News wants to give everyday people an easy way to notify editors of potential stories. Seattle-based Breaking News, which runs popular mobile apps and… Read More
The Breaking News app for iPhone is breaking new ground in the world of personalized mobile news alerts. An update to the app, released today, adds a new feature called “proximity… Read More
I remember seeing a Twitter update from Breaking News this past March about the Buffalo Bills releasing quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. The first thought in my head was probably similar to… Read More
By now, you’ve probably read, watched or heard content about how several media entities reported false information on more than one occasion days after the Boston Marathon bombings. Seattle-based Breaking News, however, did… Read More