Watchup: Your Daily Newscast

Plex, the company behind the media storage and playback tools, has acquired the personalized streaming news service Watchup, as part of a plan to provide users of the Plex ecosystem more content to watch from their devices.

Video news startup Watchup</a, is announcing that it has raised $1 million in additional funding. Co-founder Adriano Farano, a former journalist himself, has said that his goal is to create a new version of the daily newscast. To do that, Watchup released an iPad app allowing users to assemble playlists of news segments from sources like the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal, and…

Watchup, the startup aiming to create the tablet version of the daily news broadcast, has released version 2.0 of its iPad app, adding features for both casual and power users. The Watchup app pulls news videos from a range of sources, such as the Associated Press, PBS NewsHour, and the Wall Street Journal, and it stitches them together into a continuous playlist. Initially, users had to…

Watchup, a startup hoping to reinvent the news-watching experience on the iPad, has released an update that should make it even more convenient for users. When I spoke to co-founder Adriano Farano back in December, he talked about how people used to gather around the TV for the nightly newscast — something that’s been lost in the current fragmented environment. Watchup tries to recapture some…

Watchup, a StartX-incubated video iPad app that allows users to build their own news playlists, has raised a $500,000 angel funding. It’s an impressive list of investors, including Digital News Ventures, The Knight Foundation (co-founder Adriano Farano was a Knight Fellow at Stanford and Watchup was one of the winners of the Knight News Challenge), former Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon…

Watchup is a new app that helps people find out what's up in video news. Available on the Apple iPad, the service aggregates video content from several media outlets and...