3.9

43 Votes

Category News/Magazines
Program license Free
Version 3.6.15
Size 7 MB
Works under: Android
Program available in English
Content rating Teen
Package name com.breakingnews
Program by NBC News Digital LLC
701 5th Ave Suite 2600 Seattle, WA 98104

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Breaking News is an app that shows news faster than other apps. I love to stay on top of the daily news, so I love this app because it helps me read all of the most important news as soon as it is available.

I like the app's easy format. I am not that tech savvy, and Breaking News is really easy to just download and start reading all of the news that I am interested in right away. I would recommend this app to anyone who likes to be well informed about what is going on in the world.

Breaking News has shut down operations as of December 31, 2016.

Thank you so much for using this service — knowing that we had passionate, engaged people relying on Breaking News made our hard work especially meaningful. Many of the features we implemented came directly from your feedback. Thank you.

medium.com/@breakingnews

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Potentially dangerous permissions

ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION: Allows an app to access approximate location. Alternatively, you might want ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION.
ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION: Allows an app to access precise location. Alternatively, you might want ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION.
READ_PHONE_STATE: Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.

Other permissions

ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE: Allows applications to access information about networks.
ACCESS_WIFI_STATE: Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
BROADCAST_STICKY: Allows an application to broadcast sticky intents. These are broadcasts whose data is held by the system after being finished, so that clients can quickly retrieve that data without having to wait for the next broadcast.
INTERNET: Allows applications to open network sockets.
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED: Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting. If you don't request this permission, you will not receive the broadcast at that time. Though holding this permission does not have any security implications, it can have a negative impact on the user experience by increasing the amount of time it takes the system to start and allowing applications to have themselves running without the user being aware of them. As such, you must explicitly declare your use of this facility to make that visible to the user.
SET_ALARM: Allows an application to broadcast an Intent to set an alarm for the user.
VIBRATE: Allows access to the vibrator.
WAKE_LOCK: Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
com.amazon.device.messaging.permission.RECEIVE
com.breakingnews.permission.C2D_MESSAGE
com.breakingnews.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE
com.breakingnews.permission.RECEIVE_ADM_MESSAGE
com.breakingnews.permission.UA_DATA
com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE
com.google.android.gms.permission.ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION
com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES
com.samsung.android.providers.context.permission.WRITE_USE_APP_FEATURE_SURVEY

Breaking News

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