Thursday, August 18, 2011

XYDO Launches Email News Service

Park City, Utah-based XYDO said today that it has launched a new service, called XYDO Brief, which will deliver news and headlines to users, via email, based on their social networks and interactions. XYDO, which is backed by EPIC Ventures and others, said the goal of the new email news service is to provide the simplest and best way to get news via email. XYDO's service uses the web and social networking information to filter out news it believes will be of interest to users. The new XYDO Brief service is currently in an invitation-only beta. XYDO is headed by Eric Roach, and recently $1.25M more in venture funding for its efforts.