SmartNews is a news aggregation app using an advertising-based business model originally established in Japan in 2012 with an expansion into the US market in 2014.
The company is interesting in that it funds initiatives to improve the quality of investigative journalism and address problems arising from social media such as increasing polarisation.
However, what truly piques our interest is its demonstrated success in the US which remains unusual for Japanese software companies.
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