Facebook says it is considering India for launching new product, Facebook News

New Delhi: In a blog post, Facebook has announced it is planning to launch Facebook News in multiple countries within the next six months to a year and is considering India and other markets such as the UK, Germany, France, and Brazil. “In each country, we’ll pay news publishers to ensure their content is available in the new product,” Campbell Brown, VP, global news partnerships wrote in the post dated August 25.

Facebook refers to the new product as a ‘personalised’ destination for news within Facebook with users getting top headlines and stories for the day based on their interests. News is only available on the Facebook apps for Android and iPhone in the US currently.