Think of breaking news, and you’ll probably hear: tweet! Which is why our Breaking Future News feature is now also available on twitter. For those who aren’t doing so yet, follow us and stay ahead of the newest news, real-time.

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We won’t make a habit out of offering you yesterday’s news, but surely you’ll forgive us just this once.

Barely a day old, Breaking Future News was picked up by The Next Web, one of the world’s largest online publications. And within a few hours, the story of our launch made it to the site’s Top Stories.

Read it, like it, tell us what you think.

At Zapaday the future is literally always in the making. Today we launched Breaking Future News so that you can track the future with us and stay on top of news every hour of every day. Our editors and bots detect and publish future news headlines the moment they emerge. We aim to always be the first, or second, to spot future headlines, 24/7.

Found a future headline before we did? Beat us to the punch and let us know!

It’s about time! Users across the globe asked us to improve our date and time settings as they differ per country. You can now select your time zone, let your week start on Saturday, Sunday or Monday and decide if you prefer 6:00pm or 18:00. In the end, it doesn’t matter if it’s Sunday or Monday, every day on Zapaday is filled with fresh new events. Zap.

Only a day of future news headlines at a time, is sooo yesterday!

Zapaday now has a ‘Week Ahead’ page that shows you seven days of future headlines at a glance, starting any date you like. Zap.

As a journalist, planner or marketer you can now look beyond the fad of the day and capture the mood of next week (or month), with highlights, low points, competing news stories and things to look out for. All on one page.

We can’t wait to hear what you think!

What better place to hold our celebratory team lunch than the Amsterdam Engelbewaarder, the literary cafe that starred in John Irving’s Widow for a Year as a “dark place with a farting dog”?

We were joined by four new editor interns Anne (Dutch), Gerry (Bulgarian), Maja (Slovakian) and Yafit (Israeli) and a developer intern Fawad (Afghan). With their different backgrounds they all add to the great mix of nationalities we already have here at the office including Greek, Spanish, Russian, Polish and Indonesian.

Despite Irving’s dislike towards the cafe, we had lots of fun and enjoyed the premiere of a photo exhibit. Not a dog in sight.

Zapaday has gone global! After going live two weeks ago we were happy to see snippets on Zapaday pop up across the globe.

Check out what people have to say about Zapaday in the U.S.  (Lifehacker, CNET, Ziipa, Everything PR) Japan (100Shiki), Romania (Rasebo), Poland (Gizmodo), Spain (GenBeta, Wwwhatsnew) and Belgium (Humo). And of course our home country The Netherlands (NU Zakelijk, BNR Digitaal, Bright, Rabobank, Broadcastmagazine, Sprout).

To all writers: thanks for the warm welcome online!

Zapaday is live in public beta, yey!

The past few months we achieved major milestones for our future news coverage. Our team of future news editors grew to six people and will continue to grow to nine people in February. We set up a fact checking team in Amsterdam and India. We implemented a new design for feature headlines. And we improved our text-mining software to spot future news stories. Ready for beta.

We hope you find Zapaday useful. Post your future news stories. Let us know what you like and how we can improve.

Many thanks to all people that helped and provided feedback.

Enjoy!

Today we signed a series A funding round with Dutch venture fund V-Ventures that acquires a minority stake in Zapaday for a non-disclosed amount. V-Ventures invests in news and information services and also owns ANP, the leading Dutch news agency.

With this funding we can broaden the scope of news coverage and help you plan ahead, get insights and save time.

To guarantee our continuity, we moved Zapaday to Amazon Web Services, that very ELASTIC cloud. Multiple server instances on EC2 and images on CloudFront. Can you feel it?