About Breaking news

About company

Breaking News monitors social media and alerts you with breaking stories that are uniquely important to you -- faster than any other news source. Through a combination of experienced editors and real-time technology, Breaking News sifts out the noise to provide a reliable feed of breaking stories as they happen. You can create your own push alerts to track the latest developments across thousands of topics (i.e. Seattle, space, Edward Snowden and Apple). Breaking News is a free app available on iOS, Android and Windows 7/8. It's also on the web at BreakingNews.com, and 10 million people follow Breaking News on social media. A startup owned by NBC Universal, Breaking News is an independent, mobile-first operation.