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Spain’s Agencia Efe launches a new platform for mobile phonesPosted Nov 17 2010

Agencia Efe, the fourth-largest global news agency, announced a new design that will allow the distribution of news and ads over mobile phones. The platform will be introduced to Ibero-America, and will allow Efe clients to create templates and navigation links using their news content or Efe’s in text, photo or video format. Local advertisers will now have the chance to invest and become affiliates of this network.

Efe reaches more than 2,000 media outlets, distributes 3 million news stories yearly on all news platforms and offers a Latin vision of the world in Spanish, Potuguese, English, Arabic, Catalan and Galician.

Other updates from Mexico

Feb 2012: Journalist and activist killed by gunmen
Oct 2011: Mexico citzens turn to social media to report terror
Sep 2011: Mexico most dangerous place to be a journalist
Feb 2011: Newspaper employee becomes latest casualty of the drug war
Nov 2010: Police raid shuts down radio station
May 2010: Sixth journalist killed in Mexico this year
Apr 2010: Columnist kidnapped and murdered
Apr 2010: Reporter murdered
Mar 2010: Several journalists kidnapped
Feb 2010: Journalists killed
Feb 2010: Mexico named a dangerous place for journalists
May 2009: Journalist gunned down on World Press Freedom Day
Apr 2008: Photographer Gabriel Huge Córdoba was detained
Oct 2007: Newspaper delivery workers murdered
Jul 2007: No hope of finding missing journalists alive
Apr 2007: President eliminates prison sentences for libel