Gather News
Collect news from thousands of different sources
NEWS IS DATA
NewsBlocks primary innovation is that news is data. Once news articles are converted into data it can be safeguarded on a censor-resistant blockchain, and priced, creating a global, open, news data marketplace that anyone can use to create the next generation of mobile, chat and voice news applications, such as trusted news feeds, automated fact checking systems, and fake news detectors,
Extract Data
Use Machine Learning to extract data and relationships
Verify & Store
Verify data and add to blockchain, creating a store of news value
Create Apps
Developers retrieve data to create trusted news applications
CASE STUDY: NEWSLINES APPLICATION
Newslines is the first application built on the NewsBlocks platform. It uses NewsBlocks as the core of a social news network that gives you complete unbiased news feeds on any topic.
In 2017, Newslines distributed over 1700 news summaries about Conor McGregor, the UFC fighter, to a network of over two million Facebook fans, resulting in 100 million views on Facebook and between one to six million monthly pageviews, for just this single newsline.
Check out some sample newslines…
The Slow Readers Club
The Slow Readers Club
The ultimate fan reference for the UK’s best upcoming band. Includes interviews, live performances, and album, video and single releases.
Robin Williams
The news history of the comedian and actor, showing all of his films.
Emma Sulkowicz
Unbiased news timeline of US campus alleged rape controversy, created from highly-partisan sources. Shown in biography view.
Ashley Highfield
A profile of a UK business leader that compiles news articles, videos, and speeches, in a more effective way than Google Search or LinkedIn.
Mt Gox
The complete news history of the failed cryptocurrency exchange.
TEAM
Mark Devlin
Chief Executive OfficerFounded and published 707 issues of Metropolis, Japan’s No. 1 English magazine. Founded japantoday.com, the largest news and discussion site about Japan in the world, in 2000. Sold business in 2007 at $4 million in annual revenues, 20% profit, and 40 staff.
Mary Devlin
Chief Operations OfficerFormer Ford, Andersen Consulting and UBS IT/business analyst. Founding CEO of Metropolis, Japan’s No. 1 English magazine. Founded japantoday.com, the largest news and discussion site about Japan in the world. Sold Japan business in 2007 at $4 million in annual revenues, 20% profit, and 40 staff.
Huw Evans
Chief Technology OfficerPhD in Distributed Systems from the University of Glasgow. 25 years’ experience in software development, recruitment, product, third-party and stakeholder management, IT architecture, and information security compliance.
Patrick Brennan
Business DevelopmentGlobal media executive who has worked with some of the world’s largest media organizations in digital, print, events, licensing, revenue generation, business development. Harvard Business School, PMD Executive Program class valedictorian.
James Shoemark
Advisor (The Startup Race)Founder and CEO of seven startups since Los Angeles 1991. One of Scotland's Innovation Leaders and Lynchpin between its Entrepreneurial / Investment Community. Author of radical accelerator programs: The Investment Readiness Sprint and The $1 Million Startup Race.”