Contify, a content aggregation and distribution service, showcased their offering at #Alpha, the product and startup showcase at the #NAMA conference. For business users, Contify can serve as a news discovery platform for content related to their domain. In their presentation at #alpha, Contify suggested that it solves two problems currently faced by users -- one of too many good sources for accessing content and the other that users cannot search for news based on concepts. For example, users who want to search for news about companies that have raised funding mostly submit a query with "raised funding" in the search bar. However, most of the news about funding might not contain those keywords. Features: Users can register on the website for free by submitting their email address, full name, password, job title, company, and contact number. Users can also subscribe to the website as a paid customer which will entitle them to added benefits (details below). After registration, users can select the industries(s) they would like to follow including Internet, E-Commerce, Automobiles, Biotechnology, among others. Users can either track these topics or add their own customized trackers for news and follow it on the website or create an email alerts (three for free users), where it will mail the user with most relevant news once a day. Apart from that, the website also lets users perform 'filter-based' search. The filter based search allows users to discover news based on industries, activities, companies and persons, aggregated from over 150 publications including B2B magazines, trade…
