Breaking News for Android now delivers alerts based on your proximity to the breaking news

If you’re a fan of the NBC-owned Breaking News app for Android, you might like the latest update to hit Google Play. As with the iPhone incarnation that arrived back in June, Breaking News for Android now serves up proximity alerts, which are basically push notifications for big stories wherever you happen to be at a specific moment. These move with you, rather than remaining static to a pre-set ‘home’ location. You’ll be asked to enable it when you launch the latest version of the app, but it can be disabled again within the Push Notifications menu (‘Big Stories Near...

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