News In Shorts is a popular news and information based application which presents all news in 60 words.
Azhar Iqubal talks about the transformation of News reading and presenting them to the audience in 60 words. As he says, "No opinion, just news"
Azhar Iqubal is the Co-founder and CEO of Inshorts Medialabs Pvt. Ltd. His Noida based start-up owns the popular content aggregator app inshorts (formerly news aggregator NewsinShorts).
He with his partners started News in Shorts as a Facebook page in April 2013. After getting enough traction there, they got selected for the 4th batch of TLabs. They launched the beta version in July 2013 and launched the final app on 4th September 2013. The aggregation of news stories into a crisp 60-word skeleton to fit into the device in your pockets made the mobile app a hit. At one point of time the app became the highest rated news app across playstore around the globe. His company is dedicated to create disruption in news space by providing clutter free and immensely fast news curation manually. The app crossed the million download landmark in first quarter of 2015 and is planning to cross 5 million mark by the end of 2015.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
