There are many things you might want to extract from news depending on your needs. You may monitor News Headlines, News about Competitors, News relating to the economy and so on. Some of our services such as New Product developements monitor news relating to new products. Also possible are sentiment extraction from news articles as also simple summary of news related to a particular topic such as "Swine Flu" or "Common wealth games" etc. You can have the ouput as a title, source, time and content summary.

The basic advantage is that a large number of articles running into several hunreds can be scanned and condensed in a few hors instead of a few days or more using manual methods.
Besides there is more uniform editing in news aggregation from multiple sources like regular xml news feeds, blogs, articles and so on.