Apple, Google and Facebook zero in on news - Reflections of a Newsosaur

With Apple, Facebook and Google promoting powerful news-delivery platforms, the best days may be in the rearview mirror for the dedicated news apps produced by media companies and a host of independent players. Leveraging their enormous audiences, vast troves of user data and state-of-the-art targeting algorithms, the Silicon Valley behemoths have created master applications to deliver personalized feeds to serve everyone’s individual news, information and entertainment needs. They’ll use those platforms – and the rich user data they generate – to deliver premium-priced advertising to the right customer at the right place at the right time. Source: Reflections of a Newsosaur: Apple, Google and Facebook zero in on news