Hyderabad: Telangana Information Technology Association (TITA) Startup Community has come up with news aggregated mobile application SlickTalks. The new mobile app was launched by TITA Global President Sundeep Kumar Makthala at Hyderabad Press Club.
The mobile app will help users customize news based on their areas of interest and get news stories based on daily trending events, relevant stories, and the latest headlines from various sources. The news aggregator app will have advanced features like those on social media giants like Facebook and Twitter besides delivering updated news stories.
The new mobile app is the brainchild of four Hyderabad techies. Karunakar and his team along with other Telugu technocrats Shashank, Yashwanth developed the new mobile app.
The app publishes and all the latest stories and breaking news and presents them to users according to their customized areas of interest.
Not just news, the mobile app allows users the option to block specific news items from a particular category. Users can customize news and features based on their likes and dislikes. Disliked features will not appear for that particular user. The users will get new stories based on their interests and priority. For example, users will find under ‘Hyderabad Growth’ category news stories based on Hyderabad development according to the keywords.
Apart from this, users will be able to share their opinion on the app on a particular story. Also, users can share stories available on the SlickTalks app, and based on these stories they can share their opinion and also read the opinions of other readers on the app. A unique feature of the SlickTalks app is that users can follow other users based on common views and other like-minded people. Also, users can initiate a discussion with other members. This feature was unique to social media apps like Facebook and Twitter is now available on the SlickTalks news aggregator platform.
SlickTalks is one of the many such unique initiates of the TITA Startup Community. It is the result of joint efforts of techies based in Hyderabad and the US for over a year.
Speaking at the launch of the mobile app, TITA Global President Sundeep Makthala said that new features of SlickTalks give users a unique reading experience.
TITA Startup Community has come up with many such initiatives in the past but developing a news aggregator app stands unique. The mobile app can be downloaded from Google Play Store and App Store. It can also be downloaded from bit.ly/39Ng8yI link.
