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Yahoo launches 'Newsroom' for hot topics Yahoo on October 4 unveiled its latest mobile news application, using both algorithms and user choices to deliver the most relevant updates with a social twist. Yahoo Newsroom, tailored for mobile devices powered by Android or Apple operating systems, is Yahoo's latest move to counter Facebook and other internet giants as a key place for news updates. The application uses algorithms in the same manner as Google and Facebook in delivering personalized news, but also enables users to adjust the content and offer their own views. “In moving to a very community powered approach, we wanted to give the app a distinct identity around news and a place where people are going to come to have conversations around news,” Yahoo vice president Simon Khalaf told AFP in unveiling the application. Yahoo said that more than 300 million people monthly come to its online venues to share opinions about big news stories. “It is a very com