Yahoo has launched the UK edition of the Yahoo News Digest app. It’s the first service designed by Nick D’Aloisio, now a Yahoo product manager, whose company, Summly, Yahoo bought for a reported $30m (£19.8m) in March 2012.

Yahoo News Digest delivers the top news for a UK audience twice a day, to users’ mobile devices. Stories are generated from multiple sources, assembled from what Yahoo calls “atoms” and describes as “essential bits and pieces of information”. The digest is algorithmically produced but editorially curated.

The atoms include maps, infographics, stock tickers, Wikipedia extracts, videos, photos, quotes and other material. The UK edition includes two new atoms, Weather and Statistics.

Getting the news in the morning and evening has been a daily habit since the invention of the printing press. So has reading a newspaper from front to back page. We wanted Yahoo News Digest to bring back that sense of completion and conclusiveness. When you get to that last page, you can put the newspaper down knowing you are ‘in the know’.

“With Summly, we learned that people don’t necessarily have the time to read a lengthy article, especially on a small mobile screen,” said D’Aloisio. “By giving powerful algorithmic summaries, we found that people actually read more content when it was boiled down to the most important bits. I believe the idea of modularized units, or atoms, is the next step in summarization and perfect for mobile devices.”