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In the ongoing war in Ukraine, Kyiv's forces on the counteroffensive are hunting for Russian weak spots all along the 800-mile front line, Ukraine's Defense Ministry adviser said, amid reports of significant Ukrainian breakthroughs in the south and east of the country. General Abdourahmane Tchiani, the head of Niger's presidential guard, has been unveiled as the head of a new transitional government in the wake of a coup which ousted President Mohamed Bazoum. Ford is recalling about 870,700 F-150s from 2021-2023 over safety concerns surrounding their electric parking brakes, which can activate unexpectedly while the truck is in motion. Mitch McConnell plans to continue serving as the Senate's Republican party leader through his current leadership term, his office told Politico after the Kentucky senator's actions at a Wednesday press conference raised concerns about his health. non-emergency government officials and their family members to avoid traveling to Haiti, citing risks of kidnapping, violent crime, civil unrest and a cholera outbreak. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that aims to provide additional protections for members of the military who want to take legal action after suffering serious military crimes, such as sexual assault. Detectives are investigating a shooting that left at least five people injured, two critically, during a community outreach event in a Seattle parking lot. Particle Media, the Delaware-registered operating entity of News Break, has raised over $20 million to date from investors including IDG Capital, ZhenFund and Ding Lei, the founder of Chinese online media and gaming giant NetEase.Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned of a potential "hybrid attack" against his country as more than 100 Wagner troops are moving toward the Suwałki Gap – a thin corridor between Poland and Lithuania. Other big names involved in News Break range from Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang who joined as the chief advisor as well as Wu, HuffPost’s former operations head. “Only high-quality, hyper-relevant local news can provide valuable information to readers,” he added.īyteDance has tried exporting the Toutiao model through TopBuzz, but the overseas edition never achieved mainstream success and is reportedly looking for a buyer. To stand out from the crowd, the company serves up local news and happenings for readers, for Wu observed that America’s mainstream media focus overwhelmingly on national affairs and celebrity gossip, “news that’s irrelevant to my day-to-day.” 
The type of personalized reading experience pioneered by Toutiao is now a default feature across media apps in the U.S., said (in Chinese) Vincent Wu, chief operating officer of News Break, at an event in Silicon Valley.
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Sensor Tower estimated the app has more than 50 million installs globally across iOS and Android devices, among which more than 99% are from the U.S. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2015, News Break now boasts 23 million monthly users with a growing network of more than 10,000 content providers. News Break is Zheng’s effort to replicate Yidian Zixun’s success in foreign markets with his co-founder Ren Xuyang, a former Baidu executive. Together with other algorithm-driven news apps, the duo changed the habits of hundreds of millions in China from consuming human-curated news to machine-recommended content with minimal human oversight. In 2011, he left Yahoo to launch Yidian Zixun, the Beijing-based startup seen early on as the main rival of Toutiao, the hit news app that made ByteDance a household name in China before Douyin emerged. Jeff Zheng, the founding chief executive, headed up Yahoo Labs in Beijing, where he oversaw algorithm improvements in search, media, advertising and mobile. News Break is staffed with other storied overseas Chinese tech bosses. by a Chinese media veteran (Photo source: News Break) Former Microsoft executive Harry Shum joins News Break, a local news aggregator founded in the U.S.
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