News Republic - the general news aggregator site with 1,200 content partnerships globally - has long-term plans for Asia's third-largest economy and hopes to do more in India.
It is also emerging as the one-stop shop for international as well as local news which will be very useful in news consuming nations like India.
Radhika Shukla, India Country Director of News Republic said, "We want to ensure that our users have access to the news from all genres and every form. And we have 107 news partners in India. We are targeting the huge potential which India and its younger population have announced the launch of its India edition in New Delhi on Thursday.
New Republic is available in Hindi and eight other regional languages for India.
News Republic has partnered with national dailies like Hindustan, Patrika and online sites like BBC Hindi, AajTak, IANS, Oneindia group sites to enrich the content experience for its Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Malayalam and Gujarati news readers.
Currently, it has more than 12 million active users around the world. News Republic has various apps including, AppyGeek and AppyGamer.
Some Salient Features:
The News Republic app is available in over 40 local editions, covering 29 languages : the news app with the widest global outreach
Available for Android, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Samsung Watch (Gear S2)
1,500 licensed publishers across the world
50,000 articles / 40,000 photos / 1,500 videos published every day, all fully licensed
1 million topics are available to personalize the apps from. 60 per cent of users regularly personalize their news topics
Users spend 6 minutes per day on average on each News Republic app, that's 3 hours per month
Multi-awarded: Best Mobile Media and Publishing App at Mobile World Congress 2015, Editor's Choice on Google Play
$12 million funding till date