Orange Tries French Google News Rival ’24/24 News’ With 25 Partners

imageOrange’s Labs R&D unit in France has soft-launched a new multimedia news aggregation service, 24/24 News, aiming to offer news search and personalisation for online newspapers, radio and TV. Unlike Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News, which in France only has one formal news deal, with Agence France Presse, to add to its crawled aggregation, 24/24, unveiled at MipTV in Cannes, has partnership deals with 25 French media orgs…

TV: BFM TV, Euronews, France 24, LCP-AN, Public Sénat, TV5 Monde
Radio: BFM, Europe 1, Radio France, RFI, RMC, RTL
Online newspapers: La Tribune, L