Way2Online, the parent company of Way2SMS, has launched Way2News, an Android app which will provide news snippets in Hindi, Telugu and English. The company claims that the news is curated by its editors, who go through multiple new sources like dailies, TV channels, websites and blogs to summarize each news story to 400 characters. The company plans to release an iOS app in the next 2 weeks, along with adding 8 more languages in the next 45 days. For now, we’re not sure if Way2News has tied up with Indian news publishers because it displays articles from The Hindu, Economic Times, NDTV, Money Control, Hindustan Times, Zee News and PTI among others. Strangely, the app only lets you select one language at a time. After selecting Telugu, it gave me the option to select the state edition of Andhra Pradesh or Telangana and for Hindi, it gave the option to choose between Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Delhi. On the right hand settings menu, you can choose to get news from Indian and international news genres like headlines, news, business, sports, entertainment and specials. The news is presented in a paragraph format and if you swipe up, that item is marked as read. Thereon, you need to click on the headline to read the complete article if you want. When you click on the headline, the app takes you to a page within the app where you see (north…
