Orange’s Labs R&D unit in France has soft-launched a new multimedia news aggregation service, 24/24 News, aiming to offer news search and personalisation for online newspapers, radio and TV. Unlike Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News, which in France only has one formal news deal, with Agence France Presse, to add to its crawled aggregation, 24/24, unveiled at MipTV in Cannes, has partnership deals with 25 French media orgs…

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—TV: BFM TV, Euronews, France 24, LCP-AN, Public Sénat, TV5 Monde
—Radio: BFM, Europe 1, Radio France, RFI, RMC, RTL
—Online newspapers: La Tribune, L’Équipe, L’Expansion, L’Express, Le Figaro, Le JDD, Le Monde, Le Parisien, Le Point, Les Échos, Libération, Paris-Match

But like Google News, editorialisation is automatic, depending on metadata supplied by the partners. For video, that data will even help split videos in to individual scenes, to which users can jump to satisfy their specific query. Later versions may incorporate Orange’s own speech-to-text technologies. 24/24 will be organised in to a number of different new subjects. A beta test will open on April 15. No mobile presence is referred to. Via AFP and release.