United Kingdom, April 16 -- Samsung News is to launch in the UK.

The tech giant supplies mobile devices, laptops and televisions amongst a host of other gadgets across the world but the company has now announced that their own news platform will be rolled out to UK users via an app for the first time.

Andrew Bailey, Editor-in-Chief, Samsung News, said: "There's never been a greater need for accurate, verified, and balanced news that doesn't live behind a paywall. Our goal with Samsung News is to offer Galaxy users a broad selection of free content from premium partners, including breaking news, deep-dives, and briefings hand-picked by our experienced news editors.

"Users will also be able to customise their feeds by following publisher...